Climate
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 […]
CECE Whitepaper No. 1: The 4Rs of Climate Work: A Case Study of AmeriCorps
CECE has published its inaugural whitepaper, focusing on climate work in service corps programs across the US. CECE Director, Dr. Dana Fisher authored the whitepaper that lays out a framework on the 4 Rs of climate work. The whitepaper uses data collected through semi-structed interviews with AmeriCorps leadership and staff to uncover how government agencies […]
Article: Same Old Story with a Different Ending: Homophily and preferential selection of [...]
CECE Director, Dr. Dana Fisher, CECE Project Manager, W. Chris Jayko, and University of Exeter Professor, Dr. Lorien Jasny, published a paper studying the US Climate Policy Network. The paper takes a deeper look into how a climate policy, in this case the Inflation Reduction Act, was passed in such a polarised network. Read the […]
Article: Shock and Awe
American University Magazine’s June Issue features a story, written by Sarah C.P. Williams, on CECE Director Dr. Dana R. Fisher’s work around Climate Activism. Full Story here.
CECE Holds Training for International Environmental Leaders
On May 29th, 2024, CECE provided a one-day training for environmental professionals from Eastern Europe as part of the Independent Environmental Fellowship Program (IEFP). IEFP is a U.S. government-funded exchange program for environmental professionals from Eastern Europe. Participants in the program represented environmental NGOs working on a range of issues, including recycling, conservation, and environmental education. CECE […]
CHCI Issue Summit 2024 – Latinos en La Lucha: Climate Challenges and Green [...]
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) hosted a dynamic two-day Issue Summit on May 7-8, 2024, focusing on critical issues impacting the nation and the Latino community. Held at the Capital Turnaround, the summit provided a platform for high-level discussions on health, technology, workforce, economic empowerment, and leadership, with a special emphasis on the Latino […]
Report: Agenda for a Progressive Political Economy of Carbon Removal
The Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal released their most recent report- “Agenda for a Progressive Political Economy of Carbon Removal.” In this report, they “look to the possible versions of a future with carbon removal, imagining its best forms, its worst forms, and its most likely forms.” You can read all of the Institute’s findings […]
An Untapped Opportunity for DC’s Media: Connecting the gaps in the climate conversation
Years of heavy industry pollution mean DC’s rivers aren’t safe for fishing or swimming. Many local media articles carry updates on the health of the water, but, as a study of local media my class carried out indicates, journalists may not be linking stories about related topics like river pollution, trash pickup, and more, to […]
On the Social Side of the Climate Crisis
On Thursday, The Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) kicked off their annual conference at SIS, co-sponsored by CECE, American Institutes for Research, Deloitte, the MacArthur Foundation, Science Advances, AU’s School of International Service, The Department of Environment Development and Health, and the Hewlett Foundation. This was a significant landmark for ESS, because under the leadership of […]
COP28 Around American University
As all eyes turn towards Dubai for the 28th Conference of the Parties to discuss climate change on a global scale, we are taking this opportunity to look inward to the work happening across American University’s campus related to climate policymaking and COP28. CECE will also be co-hosting a live event with We Don’t Have […]