MEDIA ADVISORY: Yale experts available to discuss the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

The following Yale experts are available to offer detailed commentary on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The following Yale experts are available to offer detailed commentary on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

PAUL ANASTAS, professor in the practice of chemistry for the environment at Yale, served as assistant administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as the EPA’s science advisor from 2009 to 2012. He has appointments at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the Department of Chemistry, and the Department of Chemical Engineering. He is also director of the Yale Center for Green Chemistry.

Office: 203-432-6165, email: paul.anastas@yale.edu

Video clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yVRHU1s_Mk

DAVID SKELLY, the Frank R. Oastler Professor of Ecology at Yale, is the director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. He has appointments at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Office: 203-432-3603, email: david.skelly@yale.edu

Video clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQX7zWqggV0

DANIEL ESTY, professor of environmental law and policy at Yale, served as commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection from 2011 to 2014. He has appointments at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Yale Law School. He is director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy.

Office: 203-432-6256, email: daniel.esty@yale.edu

Video clip:
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ifxi76/the-colbert-report-obama-s-global-warming-initiative—dan-esty

KEN GILLINGHAM, a professor of environmental and energy economics at Yale, served as the senior economist for energy and the environment at the White House Council of Economic Advisors during the Obama administration. He has appointments at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the Department of Economics, and the School of Management.

Office: 203-436-5465, email: kenneth.gillingham@yale.edu

Video clip:
http://www.newsr.in/video/20170129/6688148/Declining-Cost-of-Renewables-Will-Challenge-Trump.htm

EDGAR HERTWICH, a professor of industrial sustainability at Yale, leads the International Resource Panel’s Working Group on Environmental Impacts of Products and Materials. A lead chapter author for the International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report, he is director of the Yale Center for Industrial Ecology.

Office: 203-432-5475, email: edgar.hertwich@yale.edu

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