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LISTEN: Free Range Podcast and Life as an EPA Regional Administrator

On this episode of Free Range, sponsored by the Environmental Institute, host Michael Livermore is joined by Adam Ortiz, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Arctic Cities Need Unique Solutions to Climate Change. UVA is Working on Some.

A team supported by UVA’s Environmental Institute has been working with community members in the Arctic to find solutions to dangerous infrastructure challenges caused by a changing climate.
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UVA Researchers Awarded Funds to Advance Clean Energy Innovations

UVA researchers, based on a project seed funded by the Environmental Institute, expand work on challenges associated with lithium recovery during battery recycling.

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Virginia’s Carbon Capture Potential: A Roadmap to Climate Restoration

The Environmental Institute's Climate Restoration Initiative harnesses bottom-up data analysis to inform community action.
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LISTEN: Free Range Podcast and Life as an EPA Regional Administrator

On this episode of Free Range, sponsored by the Environmental Institute, host Michael Livermore is joined by Adam Ortiz, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Aerial view of city in Arctic snow

Arctic Cities Need Unique Solutions to Climate Change. UVA is Working on Some.

A team supported by UVA’s Environmental Institute has been working with community members in the Arctic to find solutions to dangerous infrastructure challenges caused by a changing climate.
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lithium battery recycling

UVA Researchers Awarded Funds to Advance Clean Energy Innovations

UVA researchers, based on a project seed funded by the Environmental Institute, expand work on challenges associated with lithium recovery during battery recycling.
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University Embarks Upon Its Plug-In Future

The Environmental Institute's Associate Director, Andres Clarens, weighs in on UVA's electric revolution.
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EPA Regional Administrator Visits UVA to Discuss Environmental Research

EPA's Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator, Adam Ortiz, visited UVA's Environmental Institute to discuss community-based climate solutions.
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The Institute Announces Four Awards for Novel Environmental Research

The Environmental Institute awarded four grants to UVA faculty studying topics such as environmental impacts of artificial intelligence, equity and sustainability concerns with electric car data storage, low-carbon building design...
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5 Ways to Keep Climate Anxiety at Bay from Britt Wray

Britt Wray's talk captivated an audience of nearly 200 UVA faculty, students, and staff eager to hear about ways to transform climate anxiety to climate action and hope.
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Q&A: How Do You Fight Climate Anxiety?

The Environmental Institute and Contemplative Sciences Center hosted a conversation on the effect of climate change on mental health. Two UVA scholars answered questions on climate anxiety ahead of the...
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Heart attacks, cancer, dementia, premature deaths: 4 essential reads on the health effects driving EPA’s new fine particle air pollution standard

Two EI affiliates, Jonathan Colmer and Jay Shimshack, analyzed the most polluted U.S. census tracts and were cited in a recent article in The Conversation about federal efforts to protect...