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Combating urban heat
Sarah Sterinbach

Combating urban heat

Through the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program, rising junior Sarah Sterinbach has spent the summer learning about the policies Philadelphia has used to protect its citizens from extreme heat and how those efforts might improve in the future.

Luis Melecio-Zambrano

Partnering with Philadelphia teachers to inspire climate action
A group of 13 people stand in a classroom smiling.

In June, Bethany Wiggin of the School of Arts & Sciences joined with 10 Philadelphia high school teachers to incorporate climate into their curricula. (Image: Courtesy of Mia D’Avanza and Bethany Wiggin)

Partnering with Philadelphia teachers to inspire climate action

Bethany Wiggin, founder of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, is working with public high school teachers across Philadelphia to incorporate climate education into the classroom.

Luis Melecio-Zambrano

Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future
Several people around a table, one holds a satellite map.

Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future

Artists supported by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities created tools for navigating unpredictable ecological challenges, then brought them to life in a series of public workshops at the Independence Seaport Museum.

Katherine Unger Baillie

The Supreme Court restricts the EPA’s power to curb climate change
Smoke from a power plant clouds out the sun's light

With the decision in West Virginia v. the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court ruled to limit the EPA’s capacity to regulate power plant emissions under the Clean Air Act. The move hamstrings efforts by the federal government to regulate a major contributor to climate change.

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    • The Supreme Court restricts the EPA’s power to curb climate change

    Shelley Welton, a new faculty member with Penn Carey Law and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, calls the decision “devastating,” even if expected. She explains the ruling and its implications for action on climate change.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Climate change’s impact on cardiovascular mortality
    African American person sitting outside cooling their head with a towel.

    Climate change’s impact on cardiovascular mortality

    Two new studies from Penn LDI indicate the increasing number of extreme heat waves baking large swaths of the country pose new levels of potentially deadly health threats, particularly for older adults and minority populations in low-income communities.

    Hoag Levins

    Prioritizing environmental justice while capturing carbon from the air
    A spade digging into sandy material.

    Peter Psarras and his students study the fundamentals of storing captured carbon in rock waste, conducting experiments at the Pennovation Center. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

    Prioritizing environmental justice while capturing carbon from the air

    The Clean Energy Conversions Lab’s mission is to minimize the environmental and climate impacts of the world’s dependence on fossil fuels through carbon management.

    From Penn Engineering Today

    Facing climate change with optimism
    Satellite view of receding sea ice from space.

    Receding Arctic sea ice, as seen from space.

    (Image: NASA/Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio)

    Facing climate change with optimism

    In the course titled Climate Change & the Energy Evolution, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law students learn how to use their legal skills to decarbonize the world’s economy.

    From Penn Carey Law