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EPIC Executive Director Sam Ori talks to Vox about global oil markets and US energy security.

EPIC's research on pollution markets, which spurred the launch of its Emissions Market Accelerator, was awarded the UC Berkeley Haas Sustainable Business Research Prize for 2025-2026.

A column by Greg Odogwu In 2001, then-Minister of Transport, late Chief Ojo Maduekwe, urged Nigerians to adopt cycling as a sustainable and eco-friendly alternative to vehicles, to reduce traffic congestion. As part of his “Organic Transportation” initiative, he famously...

Millions of people in India’s capital city are breathing in polluted air that is equivalent to smoking roughly nine cigarettes a day, a Post analysis found.

The Malawi Uni­versity of Busi­ness and Applied Sci­ences (Mubas), through the Depart­ment of Phys­ics and Bio­chem­ical Sci­ences under the School of Sci­ence and Tech­no­logy, is imple­ment­ing an air qual­ity mon­it­or­ing study fin­anced by the Uni­versity of Chicago’s Epic Air Qual­ity...

With pollution in Pakistan hitting record highs in recent years, citizens clutching air monitors and legal papers are taking the fight for clean air into their own hands.

The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules.

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...

Heatmap surveys experts including Michael Greenstone on the climate impact of data centers.

There’s been a long-standing synergy when it comes to the U.S. and Canada around oil. But the seizure of Venezuelan oil by the United States has thrown a bit of a wrench into the future of that relationship. EPIC Scholar...