After going on hiatus for two years during the COVID-19 pandemic, the ERG Annual Lecture on Energy and the Environment returned as a fully in-person event this year, with Damilola Ogunbiyi speaking at Sibley Auditorium about how to drive a more just and equitable global energy transition.

ERG’s Dan Kammen was featured in a recent article in the Los Angeles Times proposing that Russian aggression has hastened the need for America and other nations to transition away from relying on fossil fuels. (Photo by Karsten Würth)

ERG professor emeritus and founding faculty member John Holdren has been awarded the Public Welfare Medal by the National Academy of Sciences. This award recognizes his many years of scientific … Continue Reading »

ERG alumna Dr. Lara Cushing (MA ’10, PhD ’15) and ERG PhD student Nicholas Depsky contributed to a UC Berkeley, UCLA-led study recently published in the American Journal of Public … Continue Reading »

A new research paper exploring the potential for the innovative use of low-value wood was recently published in PNAS by Bodie Cabiyo, a PhD candidate at ERG, with corresponding author Daniel Sanchez (PhD ’15). Their research supports that the innovative use of low-value wood has the ability to reduce wildfire risk, and reduce California’s net emissions. (Photo by Olena Sergienko)

ERG PhD student Will Gorman (MS ’19) and Cristina Crespo Montanes (MS) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) were featured in a recent article in Utility Dive, sharing how … Continue Reading »

A new study from ERG’s Andy Jones and Julia Szinai at the Berkeley Lab considers how dwindling mountain snowpacks will implicate water management.

ERG graduate student Chelsi Sparti has published in Cal Matters about how knowledge of indigenous practices can inform wildfire prevention.

ERG’s Dan Kammen has been selected to serve as senior adviser for energy, climate and innovation for the U.S. Agency for International Development. (Photo by Elena Zhukova)