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From The Gambia to India, a new film produced for EPIC by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions highlights how data and evidence inform better decisions on air quality.

Particulate matter is, Michael Greenstone argues, the greatest public health threat on the planet. Worse than HIV, cigarettes, and alcohol. The average person  loses about two years of life expectancy to it. In India, the figure is three and a...

Eyal Frank is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Working at the intersection of ecology and economics, his research addresses three broad questions – how animals contribute to specific production functions, how market...

EPIC’s Clean Air Program has launched a new series of conversations sparked by EPIC Air Quality Fund Awardees, focusing on new tools, real-world lessons, and emerging opportunities in air quality. In this session, Albert Presto of Carnegie Mellon University and...

[Commentary] by Tanushree Ganguly Cities in India, especially in the Delhi-National Capital Region, are once again facing severe air pollution. This has renewed interest in how China managed to control its pollution. China reduced particulate pollution by nearly 40% not...

In this episode of Planet People Profit, Sudipto Dey, the Editor of Sustainability & Regulatory Affairs at Outlook Business, speaks with Professor Michael Greenstone, one of the world’s leading experts on environmental regulation and the economics of clean air. His...

EPIC Clean Air Director Christa Hasenkopf writes that air pollution quietly erases around 6% of global gross domestic product each year, far outweighing the annual growth expected from artificial intelligence, yet receives less than 0.1% of global philanthropy. Data is...

Access to clean drinking water remains one of the world’s most pressing public health challenges, with more than 2 billion people around the world left without clean water to drink. Only 14 percent of rural households in low- and middle-income...

Could home delivery of locally-treated water increase access to clean drinking water?

Michael Greenstone knows it’s corny, but he wants to make the world a better place — by tracking the impact of air quality, developing pollution markets in India, and … starting a podcast, which Steve says proves he’s over the...