EcoGovLab’s comments to EPA on Proposed Rule regarding Accidental Release Prevention Requirements
October 17, 2022 The Honorable Michael S. Regan (Regan.Michael@EPA.gov)Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of the Administrator 1101A 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20460 Dear Administrator Regan: On Saturday, October 1, the...
UCI researchers awarded $7.5 million for environmental justice initiative
EcoGovLab's Kim Fortun is lead social scientist in a new $7.5 million for environmental justice initiative funded by the National Science Foundation to support diversification and community engagement in Earth system science. The initiative is designed to support...
PRESS RELEASE: Preparing for Chemical Disasters
Toxic Tour of Refineries in Torrance and Wilmington California Shows High RiskContact: kfortun@uci.edu (Kim Fortun: Professor, EcoGovLab) On Saturday, October 1, the Torrance Refinery Action Alliance (TRAA), GREEN-MPNA (a community-based organization in Santa...
Fred Ariel Hernandez awarded NSF Postdoc
Ariel Herndandez is awarded a supplement to his NSF-funded post-doctoral funding to support collaborations in Europe focused on urban environmental monitoring.
EcoGovLab’s Srigyan receives NSF award to study how political engagement shapes science educators, pedagogy!
One-year funding will take the anthropology Ph.D. student to various sites around the U.S. Prerna Srigyan, anthropology graduate student, has received a $31,400 grant from the National Science Foundation to study how political engagement shapes science educators and...
EcoGovLab Reasearcher and Interdisciplinary UCI Team Win EPA Video Competition
The UCI cross-disciplinary graduate student team won first place in Phase 1 of the EPA’s Environmental Justice Video Challenge for Students, in which they revealed the lead soil contamination threat in Santa Ana. (From left: Annika Hjelmstad, Ashley Green, David...
Reaching for Just Transition Seminar reported by Backchannels
In this Backchannels post, Tim Schütz and Kim Fortun report on the launch of the Reaching for Just Transition Seminar, a hybrid event series for dialogue about environmental justice issues across geography, generation and discipline, linking the university to...
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