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In The News·Jan 14, 2026

Trump’s EPA is setting the value of human health to $0

via Vox
In this Vox article about the Environmental Protection Agency's new math to favor polluters, author Umair Irfan quotes EPIC's Clean Air Program Director Christa Hasenkopf, who suggests that “one would anticipate that we could see PM 2.5 levels rising across...
In The News·Jan 14, 2026

Data Centers Won’t Significantly Slow Decarbonization, Insiders Say

via Heatmap
Heatmap surveys experts including Michael Greenstone on the climate impact of data centers.
In The News·Jan 6, 2026

5 things need to happen for Big Oil to return to Venezuela

via CNN
EPIC's Ryan Kellogg talks to CNN about the challenges facing oil production in Venezuela.
In The News·Dec 29, 2025

The climate finance numbers did not add up in 2025

via Mongabay
Global talks on climate finance struggled to keep pace with reality. But in 2025, developing countries intensified their calls for developed countries’ obligations.
In The News·Dec 27, 2025

Breathing death: What Bangladesh must do to tackle air pollution

via The Daily Star
The Daily Stars' op-ed covers air pollution in Bangladesh using the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) data.
In The News·Dec 19, 2025

Could this be the biggest global health ROI you’ve never heard of?

via World Economic Forum
By Christa Hasenkopf 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 a common constraint on clean...
In The News·Dec 19, 2025

How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril – in maps and charts

via The Guardian
The Guardian highlights the Lab's crop projections and talks with Lab researcher Andrew Hultgren.
In The News·Dec 7, 2025

Home delivery of locally-treated water can improve access to clean drinking water in Odisha: Study

via The New Indian Express
Research across 120 villages finds localised water treatment with home delivery is cost-effective, widely adopted, and offers health benefits even at low prices.
In The News·Dec 5, 2025

Transforming Lives with Local Clean Water Delivery: A Revolutionary Approach From Odisha

via Devdiscourse
A study by the University of Chicago's EPIC suggests that local treatment and doorstep delivery of water can significantly increase access to clean drinking water in India. This cost-effective method proved more popular than traditional alternatives, providing substantial health benefits...
In The News·Dec 5, 2025

Local treatment, doorstep delivery cost effective ways for 100% clean drinking water adoption: Study

via Press Trust of India
Localised treatment of water and doorstep delivery is a highly cost-effective way of enabling near universal adoption of clean drinking water in India, according to a new study by the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute.