Improving states’ ability to address air quality issues is the focus of a new $1 million, Penn State-led project funded by NASA.
Two Penn State researchers provided key leadership in the creation of a report to the National Science Foundation (NSF) on engineering research areas that need to be better developed to address climate change.
Allen Landis, executive director of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Energy Department Authority, will deliver the talk "Snapshot of Pennsylvania’s Solar Sector — and Programs and Policies to Grow It" at 4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 26.
Fracking for natural gas in parts of Pennsylvania with a legacy of energy extraction may increase the risk of groundwater contamination, according to a team led by Penn State scientists.
Penn State was named a collaborating institution in a $66 million U.S. Department of Energy Urban Integrated Field (Urban IFL) Program designed to study the impacts of climate change on American cities.
The Earth and Environmental Systems Institute's Fall 2022 EarthTalks series will explore the development of solar energy through multiple, and intersecting, lenses.
Rob Altenburg, director of the PennFuture Energy Center, will deliver the talk "Solar Policy and Politics in Pennsylvania" at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 3.
Kaitlyn Spangler, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography at Penn State, will deliver the talk "Towards solar justice in Pennsylvania: tensions of land, farming, and power" at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 10.
Computer games are an effective way to teach ecological issues and build pro-environment policy support, according to published research by an interdisciplinary group of Penn State scholars.
Tom Murphy, director of the Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research at Penn State, will answer questions around solar development in his talk "Utility Scale Solar and Pennsylvania – Trends, Impacts, and Implications."