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The Lingering Shadow of Redlining: Fossil Fuel Power Plants and Air Pollution

Why are some communities more burdened by air pollution than others? People of color including Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans are more likely to live in neighborhoods with poor air quality. Breathing dirty air aggravates asthma and heart disease and is estimated to cause 100,000... click to read more

Lara Cushing | Assistant Professor at UCLA

Shiwen Li | PhD student at

air pollution

energy

racism

environmental justice

Reading time 4 min

published on Sep 13, 2023

A match made in heaven: Stacking two solar cells boosts their efficiency

The development and realization of clean, renewable energy is one of the significant problems of our time. Over 850 million people do not have access to electricity. We must find a way to deliver it while maintaining a sustainable climate and air pollution standards. Solar... click to read more

Caleb C. Boyd | PhD Student at Stanford University, Stanford, USA

Michael D. McGehee | Professor at University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

perovskite solar cell

tandem

silicon

energy

renewable

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Oct 29, 2020