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Election issues

Election 2024 and U.S. climate policy

Sep 19, 2024, 5:00 pm EDT
Joan and Sanford Weill Hall Annenberg Auditorium (1120)
Climate policy is one of the key issues being discussed in the 2024 election cycle. This event will examine the larger issues and the specific effects of climate policy on the state of Michigan, as well as examining the issue through the lens of climate justice.    
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Brookings Ford School climate event
North American Colloquium

North American electricity and energy security

Mar 23, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm EDT
Join us for a conversation about the findings of three papers from 2020-21's North American Colloquium, on climate policy, with their authors.
Monica Gattinger, Leigh Raymond, Marcela Lopez-Vallejo, Joshua Basseches
Getting Stuff Done

Brown bag with Great Lakes Commission senior advisor Eric Brown

Jun 24, 2020, 12:00-12:50 pm EDT
Virtual event
Join us for a discussion with Eric Brown, senior advisor for external eelations at the Great Lakes Commission, where he works with a broad array of decision-makers and stakeholders to enhance collaboration and secure a healthy and prosperous future for the environment and economy of the Great Lakes.
Eric Brown

Public Perceptions of Renewable Energy: How to Constructively Advocate at the Local Level & Helping Communities Set Policies

Mar 10, 2020, 10:30 am-12:00 pm EDT
Weill Hall, Room 5240
As demand for renewable energy grows, wind energy and solar energy developers are looking for communities to host these projects.  In this session, Dr. Sarah Mills will talk about what we know about public perceptions of renewable energy in the communities where wind and solar projects are proposed.  She'll draw mostly on her research understanding community reactions to wind energy projects in Michigan, extrapolate what that means for solar energy.  
Ford School
North American Colloquium Climate Series

Canada-US green bilateralism: Targeting cooperation for climate mitigation

April 8, 2022
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Debora VanNijnatten, Mark McWhinney
Under the Biden administration and the Trudeau government, the U.S. and Canadian commitment to bilateral cooperation on climate is both strong and comprehensive. This stands in stark contrast to the complete lack of engagement under the previous...
Debora VanNijnatten and Mark McWhinney research paper
Program in Practical Policy Projects

Industrial Composting Policy in Detroit

January 2023 - April 2023
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Maulshree Sinha (MPP '24)
Sanctuary Farms is an urban farm and nature sanctuary in Detroit, with a mission to connect the local community with the environment and food through active participation in closing the food loop. As part of their operations, Sanctuary Farms aims to engage in industrial-scale composting, and this research project involved conducting extensive research to understand the policy and permit requirements for composting in the City of Detroit, as well as at the state and federal levels. The research process involved gathering information from various resources, including the client and the UM...
Program in Practical Policy Projects

Detroit Environmental Health Hazards Resource Hub and Data Collection

January 2023 - April 2023
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Andrew Roman (BA '24, Public Policy)
A student assisted Planet Detroit in building an online resource hub to help inform Detroit residents and relevant stakeholders of a wide variety of environmental health risks. Environmental health risk categories included flood, climate, heat, air quality, and lead levels. The resource hub includes a written description of the data and lists the type of data provided. The resource hub also includes relevant information from participating impact partners who provided the research and data. The student helped with data entry and collection to assemble the resource hub and make it discernible...
Program in Practical Policy Projects

Supporting Environmentally Friendly Mining Legislation in Michigan

January 2022 - April 2022
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Samir Deshpande (MPP ‘23), Rachel McGivern (MPA ‘22), Kjersti Swanson (BA ‘23), Yuer Wang (MPP ‘24)
Four fellows provided research support for the Michigan League of Conservation Voters and the office of State Senator Rosemary Bayer to improve a bill (SB 429 of 2021) that was introduced in the Michigan Senate to update regulations on the mining of aggregate materials (e.g., sand, gravel, stone, clay). The team conducted case studies of nine states, focusing on the relative authorities of state and local governments in the permitting and restoration processes, as well as topical overviews around soil conservation best practices, the use of recycled aggregate materials, and stakeholder...

Brown bag with Great Lakes Commission senior advisor Eric Brown

Jun 24, 2020 0:55:16

Join P3E for a discussion with Eric Brown, senior advisor for external relations at the Great Lakes Commission, where he works with a broad array of decision-makers and stakeholders to enhance collaboration and secure a healthy and prosperous futu

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