Climate
CECE Post Doc Shares Insights on Upcoming Hurricane Risks to Latino Communities
Dr. Julie A. González, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, was interviewed by journalist Johani Ponce for a series of Spanish-language news outlets covering the 2025 hurricane season and its impact on Latino communities across the U.S. In these interviews, Dr. González explained how federal funding cuts, lack of language access, rising living costs, and […]
CECE Postdoc Talks NOAA Budgets Cuts With Spanish Speaking Media
Dr. Julie A. Gonzalez, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, was interviewed by reporter Johani Carolina Ponce about the potential impacts of proposed budget cuts to NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration). The discussion focused on how these reductions could affect public safety, climate research, and disproportionately impact vulnerable communities that rely on NOAA’s services. […]
[Recap] EcoMadres Webinar: Climate Displacement & Wildfires
Dr. Julie A. González, CECE Post Doctoral Fellow, was a guest speaker in the EcoMadres Webinar on Climate Displacement & Wildfires, a discussion on how climate disasters, particularly wildfires, impact vulnerable communities. Hosted by EcoMadres, the event brought together researchers, advocates, and community leaders to examine the long-term health, economic, and social effects of wildfires, […]
[Article] Why climate activists are becoming more radicalized (and why that’s not a bad thing)
CECE Director, Dana R. Fisher, recently published an Opinion piece in The Hill (co-authored with Professor Hajar Yazdiha from USC). In the OpEd, they write about the radicalization of climate activism and what the climate movement can learn from the Civil Rights Movement. Click here for the full article.
CECE Research Team Kicks-off Climate Corps Pilot with Visits to Vermont and California
This fall, the research team working on the Addressing Climate Change Through Our Nation’s Service Corps Project visited three Climate Corps sites as part of a pilot to study the ways their programs are connecting climate-interested young people and embedding in communities. At each site, Principal Investigator Dana R. Fisher presented a curriculum on the […]
[Recap] Steven Donziger: From Climate Lawyer to Corporate Political Prisoner
On Wednesday, November 20th CECE and WCL’s Program on Environmental and Energy Law hosted Steven Donziger for a conversation of his life as a human rights lawyer turned corporate political prisoner. The conversation between Steven Donziger and CECE Director, Dr. Dana R. Fisher, began with a short intro video describing his legal battles with Chevron. […]
CECE Director, Dana R. Fisher, gives a TED Talk
In October 2024, Dr. Dana R. Fisher, gave a TED talk on how to be an “Apocalytic Optimist”, which presents her findings about what it will really take to get us to the other side of the climate crisis based on her latest book, Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Check it out […]
CECE Postdoc, Julie González, Speaks with Telemundo on Extreme Weather Events in the Northeast US
Dr. Julie A. González, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, spoke to Telemundo about the wildfires and droughts impacting New Jersey and New York, their connection to climate change, and the risks these events pose to communities as we face a very dry winter ahead. Click here to watch the full segment
American University Experts Weigh in on COP29
On 11 November, the 29th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (the UNFCCC’s COP-29) begins in Baku, Azerbaijan. This round of negotiations is the last one before countries are expected to submit their updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement by early 2025. Since many countries are still off […]
Why Aren’t the Presidential Candidates Talking Much About Climate Change? – Recap
Why is climate change not a bigger issue in the 2024 electoral campaign? The Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act were some of the nation’s most successful legislative achievements of the last decade, and they were all initiated also by the executive […]
[Research Paper] Making them pay: Comparing how environmental facts matter in two accountability [...]
How do polluters come to pay? In many popular depictions–think the George Clooney film Michael Clayton–the story ends when whistleblowers bring the facts of a powerful entity’s wrongdoing into the public sphere. Exposure and censure, presumably, follow. But even when facts come to light, they do not automatically count. Think of the many revelations about fossil […]
With DCist’s closure, the district lost its most prolific source of climate news
When my colleague Aarushi Sahejpal and I began an analysis of local climate coverage in DC last year, it became clear that one outlet was producing way more stories about climate change than any other. WAMU/DCist, a popular local news site, produced 28 out of the 69 articles we analyzed. So when DCist’s owner, local […]