Media Quotes, Commentary, and Mentions
2026
January 14, Quoted in Heatmap : This Is the Most Promising Climate Tech Company, According to People Who Know.
January 13, Quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : How Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro’s removal is impacting Pennsylvania.
January 10, Quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : As severe weather increasingly upends lives, forecasters are working closer with Pittsburgh emergency managers.
January 9, Interviewed for Milwaukee NPR : What are data centers? Expert explains AI boom, energy concerns.
January 6, Quoted in Canary Media : Is the US headed toward an electricity crisis of its own making?
2025
December 22, Guest on the NPR Podcast Lake Effect discussing AI and data centers : Lake Effect.
November 22, Quoted in Scientific American : 5 Charts Show Climate Progress as Paris Agreement Turns 10.
October 1, Quoted in Inside Climate News : Despite the Trump Administration’s Best Efforts to Suppress It, Climate Science Is Alive and Well Online
September 23, Guest about AI, electrification, and affordability on Chris Hayes’ podcast Why Is This Happening? Video of the interview is also available on YouTube.
August 8, Quoted in NPR : EPA plans to end a program that makes solar power available to low-income Americans
August 7, Op-Ed in Tech Policy Press : Trump’s AI Strategy Is At War With Itself
August 4, Interview in Forbes : Climate: Electric Vehicle Charging Networks Are Growing Fast–For Now
July 30, Guest on NPR’s KQED Forum show : Why Your Energy Bill Has Gotten So Expensive (and What Can Be Done About It)
July 25, Guest on the Open Circuit podcast : How will the clean energy industry recalibrate in the wake of OBBB?
July 1, Quoted in the The New York Times : National Climate Report Website Goes Dark
July 1, Quoted in WIRED : The Senate Just Put Clean Energy for AI in the Crosshairs
May 30, Guest on the Open Circuit podcast : The abundance agenda meets scarcity politics.
May 20, Op-Ed in MIT Technology Review : AI’s energy impact is still small—but how we handle it is huge.
May 20, Quoted in MIT Technology Review : AI could keep us dependent on natural gas for decades to come
May 16, Quoted in Pittsburgh Business Times : Pittsburgh International Airport sees leading role in sustainable aviation fuel industry.
May 12, Mentioned in Federation of American Scientists readout : AI, Energy, and Climate: What’s at Stake? Hint: A lot.
May 2, Quoted in The New York Times : Two Scientific Groups Say They’ll Keep Working on U.S. Climate Assessment.
May 2, Quoted in Nature : Trump gutted two landmark environmental reports — can researchers save them?
April 29, Quoted in the Los Angeles Times : ‘It’s a huge loss’: Trump administration dismisses scientists preparing climate report.
March 14, Quoted in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : The national lab in Pittsburgh's backyard is a place for innovation — and worry
March 4, Quoted in Latitude Media : Tariff havoc begins, complicating energy supply chains
February 28, Quoted in Scientific American and Politico’s Climate Wire : Solar and Wind Are Surging But CO2 Is Still Climbing—Here's Why
February 26, Interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition : Company cancels plans to build offshore wind industry factory in Massachusetts
February 13, Quoted in Mother Jones : Here’s How We Can Power the AI Boom Without Building a Ton of New Gas Plants
February 11, Quoted in Utility Dive : Existing US grid can handle ‘significant’ new flexible load: report
February 11, Quoted in Latitude Media : The US grid may have over 100 GW of load to spare
February 11, Quoted in Inside Climate News : Flexibility Will Go a Long Way Toward Managing the Grid of the Near Future, Researchers Say
January 30,. Quoted in The Daily Cardinal : Wisconsin Energy Institute highlights AI’s energy future during forum
January 30, Quoted in Wisconsin Business : Efforts underway to address rising energy needs linked to data centers, AI
January 25, Quoted in IEEE Spectrum : Experts Weigh in on $500B Stargate Project for AI
January 23, Quoted in Forbes : As Trump Dumps Clean Energy, Fossil Fuels Lose Their Grip On Europe
January 20, Quoted in Grist : Trump unravels US climate agenda as he promises to ‘drill, baby, drill’
January 9, Quoted in The New York Times : 2024 Brought the World to a Dangerous Warming Threshold. Now What?
January 9, Quoted in Semafor : Trump can’t repeal the most important part of Biden’s climate legacy
2024
November 28, Interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered : Washington state could be a blueprint for climate action
November 21, Quoted in Heatmap News : Everything We Know About Trump’s National Energy Council
November 14, Quoted in Bloomberg BusinessWeek : Trump Aims a ‘Wrecking Ball’ at Climate Policy
October 24, Interviewed on Vermont Public Radio : Voters want to know: What does Vermont’s energy transition mean for them?
October 24, Panelist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace : Leaping Ahead: U.S. Innovation and the Future of Clean Energy
October 22, Quoted in Politico’s ClimateWire : Trump victory would threaten new US effort to track emissions
October 22, Interviewed on Rhode Island Public Radio : What is good gas mileage anymore?
October 18, PhD Student Zia Lyle quoted and our research featured in Bloomberg : Asheville’s Dirty Water Warns of Climate Risk to Aging US Infrastructure
October 16, Quoted in Scientific American : The 2024 Presidential Election Will Make or Break U.S. Climate Action
October 14, Quoted in Floodlight : Nuclear power could solve US electricity needs. But at what cost?
October 3, Quoted and our research mentioned in NBC News : Drone deliveries, slow to take flight, come to Silicon Valley
August 20, Quoted in ASCE Civil Engineering Magazine : Rising heat is scorching Americans – and our infrastructure
August 19, Quoted in Heatmap : What Climate World Wants from a Harris-Walz Administration
August 1, Quoted in NPR : Why the U.S. government is spending $7 billion on solar for low-income homes
July 31, Quoted and research featured in Politico’s ClimateWire : Delivery drones to take flight over Dallas — offering small climate boost
July 29, Quoted in Forbes : Kamala Harris And The Climate Change Fight
July 14, Quoted in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : Electrification is coming. Grid panic is already here.
July 11, Quoted in Scientific American : Dangerous Heat Wave Hits While Power Is Out in Texas
July 11, Quoted in Politico’s ClimateWire : A lethal combo: Power outages, extreme heat devastate Texas
July 9, Quoted in The Texas Tribune : Millions of Texans face third day without power in summer heat
May 31, Quoted in The New York Times: Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them
May 29, Quoted in Business Insider : The steampunk technology that could save America's cities
May 19, Quoted in Scientific American : Chemists Chase ‘Clean’ Ammonia to Replace Shipping Fuel
May 16, Quoted in Politico’s ClimateWire : Smelly but clean: How ammonia might kill coal under the IRA
May 9, Quoted in Politico’s ClimateWire : Her job: Ensuring AI and radical climate fixes don’t backfire
April 22, Quoted in ABC News : Earth Day 2024 report card: Experts address America's climate change action
March 15, Guest on the podcast Volts : Getting ready for IRA 2
March 8, Quoted in The Texas Tribune : Texas requires utilities to plan for emergencies. That didn’t stop the Panhandle fires
February 1, Announcement from Carnegie Mellon : Carnegie Mellon Welcomes Costa Samaras as New Director of the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
2023 (On Public Service Leave)
September 4, Speaker at The Circular Economy Summit 2023 and Guest on the The Circular Economy Podcast: How is the circular economy gaining momentum in US policy?
July 5, Co-Author on White House Blog Post : Advancing a Circular Economy to Meet Our Climate, Energy, and Economic Goals
June 16, Quoted in Bloomberg Law : Grid Needs Boost to Hit Climate Goal, Biden Science Adviser Says
April 23, Featured and quoted in VCU News : Symposium explores the ‘everything problem’ of climate change – and the path to combat it
2022 (On Public Service Leave)
December 6, Quoted in New Atlanticist : John Kerry unveils a ‘critical’ new US strategy to expand fusion energy
November 18, Co-Author on White House Blog Post : Raising Ambition for a Rapid and Just Net-Zero Transition with Game-Changing Innovations
September 29, Interview with Bloomberg News : How Is Crypto Affecting The Climate?
September 22, Live Q&A with Bloomberg News : How Is Crypto Impacting Climate? White House Energy Policy Adviser Answers Your Questions
September 16, Interview in The Verge : What the Biden administration might do to keep crypto mining from derailing climate goals
August 26, Our research featured in Popular Science : Are drones the future of sustainable deliveries?
August 26, Our research featured on public radio 91.3 WYSO : Last-mile drone delivery reduces greenhouse gas emissions, study says
August 5, Our research featured in Nature : Drones bearing parcels deliver big carbon savings
July 20, Quoted in The Washington Post : With extreme heat, we can’t build roads and railways as we used to
July 19, Radio interview for The World : Record heat stresses physical infrastructure
June 3, Co-authored White House Blog Post : Parallel Processing the Path to Commercialization of Fusion Energy
June 3, Quoted in CNBC : New York just passed a bill cracking down on bitcoin mining — here’s everything that’s in it
June 2, Quoted in Bloomberg News : Crypto Miners’ Energy, Climate Costs Draw White House Scrutiny
June 2, Quoted in Forbes : Report Reveals Game-Changing White House Crypto Plans That Could Have A Serious Bitcoin And Ethereum Price Impact
2021 (Partially On Public Service Leave)
November 25, Mentioned in The Washington Post : White House creates new energy division to help craft climate change policies
November 24, Mentioned in The Hill : New White House office to develop climate change policies
November 24, Featured and Quoted in White House Press Release : White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Launches New Energy Division, Appoints New Deputy Director for Energy
November 2, Our research featured in TIME : Amazon Drone Delivery Was Supposed to Start By 2018. Here's What Happened Instead
October 17, Our research was the focus of an Editorial article in The New York Times : For Uber and Lyft, the Rideshare Bubble Bursts
October 7, Our research featured in Popular Science : One way to cut down air pollutants: call an Uber
September 30, Our research featured in Bloomberg CityLab : That Uber or Lyft Trip May Be Worse for the Planet Than Driving Yourself
September 27, Our research featured in Volts : Taking an Uber or Lyft just makes everything worse
September 23, Our research featured in Quartz : Taking an Uber is worse for the climate than driving in your own car
September 14, Our research featured on Marketplace : How ride-hailing accelerates climate change
August 12, Quoted and our research featured in The New York Times : Can America Really Drive Its Way Out of Climate Change?
August 6, Quoted in E&E News : 4 issues to watch as heat disrupts the grid
August 6, Quoted in NBC News : Rust? Trains? Why clean energy is turning to exotic ideas to fix its storage problem
August 5, Mentioned in Inside Climate News : Inside Clean Energy: Three Charts That Show The Energy Transition in 50 States
July 23, Quoted in Politico : Water, Water Everywhere
July 1, Quoted in WIRED : The Miami Building Collapse and Humanity’s Tragic Fight for the Future
June 29, Quoted in The Atlantic : Nowhere Is Ready for This Heat
June 29, Quoted in CBS News : How heat waves can scorch the U.S. economy
June 10, Radio interview for Marketplace : Offshore wind has lots of potential. How close are we to meeting it?
June 7, Quoted in E&E News : Infrastructure talks stuck on EVs, clean energy
June 1, Guest on the Real Talk Podcast : Electric Truck as Game Changer
May 20, Quoted in Slate : The Weight
May 20, Quoted in WIRED : The Most Radical Thing About Ford's F-150 Lightning? The Price
May 18, Quoted in Scientific American : Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 Are Possible, Landmark Report Says
May 14, Op-Ed with Michael Webber in The Hill : COVID-19 and climate change both require one generation to sacrifice for another
May 6, Quoted and our research featured in The Washington Post : In Biden’s infrastructure moonshot, a big question: Can the nation still achieve its highest ambitions?
May 3, Radio interview for a story on NPR’s Morning Edition : Colorado Mayor Wants All Electric Car Chargers To Be Universal
April 19, Quoted in Grist : Biden wants to build 500,000 EV charging stations. Where will they all go?
April 9, Quoted in The Washington Post : As rainstorms grow more severe and frequent, communities fail to prepare for risks. Story was also published on April 12 in The Independent : US communities struggle to prepare for growing rainstorm threat.
April 7, Op-Ed with Mikhail Chester in The Hill : Loose-fit infrastructure can better account for climate change.
April 2, Our research featured in WIRED : Biden Wants You Out of Your Car and on the Train.
March 31, Op-Ed with Mikhail Chester in Civil Engineering Source : Now is (finally) the time to future-proof our infrastructure. Also published on The RAND Blog.
March 31, Quoted in Public Source : With all eyes on Biden in Pittsburgh, 13 local experts diagnose the region’s biggest infrastructure needs
March 29, Quoted in VICE : The U.S. Is Real Close to Screwing Up Electric Vehicle Charging Forever
March 23, Quoted in ClimateWire : It's getting harder for U.S. utilities to cut carbon — study
March 11, Quoted in Vox : Why every state is vulnerable to a Texas-style power crisis
March 10, Ph.D. student Abdullah Alarfaj quoted and our research featured in The New York Times : Electric Cars Are Coming. How Long Until They Rule the Road?
March 10, Mentioned in The Atlantic : Biden’s Stimulus Is a Big Deal for Public Transit
March 1, Radio interview for Marketplace : Texas’ largest power co-op files for bankruptcy
March 1, Q&A interview for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : Ask me about … dressing our critical infrastructure for both August and February
February 24, Quoted in CBS News : $9,000 power bill during Texas blackout prompts class-action lawsuit
February 23, Quoted in Bloomberg : Living With Yesterday’s Tech, Built for Last Century’s Climate
February 12, Quoted in ABC News : Biden's push for electric vehicles puts US in international race to electrify
February 5, Television interview on ABC News : ‘It’s Not Too Late’ with Ginger Zee: Goodbye gas, hello electric
February 1, Quoted in WIRED : Biden Wants the Government to Run on EVs. It Won’t Be Easy
January 29, Quoted and our research featured in The New York Times : Electric Cars Are Coming, and Fast. Is the Nation’s Grid Up to It?
January 28, Quoted in Vice : Don't Expect the USPS Fleet to Go Electric
January 22, Quoted in Vice : Here's What $4 Trillion In Infrastructure Spending Could Fix
January 15, Interviewed for The Trump on Earth podcast : The Series Finale
January 12, Quoted in Scientific American : Record Drop in U.S. Emissions Is No Cause for Celebration
January 7, Our research featured in Vice : Uber and Lyft Say They Reduce Car Ownership, But That Might Not Be True
January 7, Our research featured in Inverse : Uber and Lyft are shaping cities in one deeply unexpected way
January 7, Our research featured in ClimateWire : Study: Uber and Lyft drive greater car ownership, emissions
January 6, Our research featured in New Scientist : Uber and Lyft operating in US cities linked to rises in car ownership
2020
December 21, Quoted in Inside Climate News : Was 2020 The Year That EVs Hit it Big? Almost, But Not Quite
December 3, Quoted in Gizmodo : How Biden Can Ensure Every Federal Agency Is Fighting Climate Change
December 1, Rebroadcast of Radio interview for Pittsburgh’s NPR station WESA : Can Biden's Climate Plan Spark Cooperation In PA?
November 25, Radio interview for NPR’s StateImpact : Can Biden’s climate plan spark cooperation in Pa.? Some see possible common ground in jobs, infrastructure
November 17, Quoted in NonProfit Quarterly : Scientists Call on Biden to Actively Address Climate Justice
November 12, Mini Op-Ed in Scientific American : Here’s How Scientists Want Biden to Take on Climate Change
November 11, Mini Op-Ed in Bloomberg with Prof. Jesse Jenkins : The 39 Things Biden Should Do First on Climate Change
November 10, Quoted in Forbes : As Coal Giant Peabody Warns Of Return To Bankruptcy — How Biden Infrastructure Programs Could Save Miners
November 9, Quoted and our research featured in New York Magazine : California’s Ban on Gas Cars Could Go Nationwide — But Still Doesn’t Go Far Enough
November 8, Quoted in The Verge : Virgin Hyperloop hits an important milestone: the first human passenger test
October 2, Quoted in Voice of America : Less Americans Driving During Coronavirus Pandemic
September 23, Quoted in Inside Climate News : In a Bold Move, California’s Governor Issues Ban on Gasoline-Powered Cars as of 2035
September 22, Quoted in CNBC : Tesla CEO Elon Musk says company can build a $25,000 self-driving car within three years
September 22, Quoted in Axios : Making sense of new corporate pledges
September 14, Quoted and our research featured on NPR’s StateImpact : RGGI, behind the rhetoric: What we know about the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
July 22, Quoted in Scientific American : COVID Pandemic Shows Telecommuting Can Help Fight Climate Change
June 25, Quoted in Gizmodo : California Will Require Most Trucks Sold in the State to be Electric by 2035
June 24, Quoted in Grist : Are We There Yet?
May 21, Quoted in Smithsonian Magazine : Carbon Emissions Are Decreasing During the Pandemic, but Could Bounce Back Fast
May 20, Quoted in National Geographic : Plunge in carbon emissions from lockdowns will not slow climate change
May 15, Quoted in Public Source : Four environmental issues in the Pittsburgh region to keep your eyes on in the age of COVID-19
May 12, Quoted and our research featured in The New Republic : There Are Green Jobs Hiding in the Oilfields
May 11, Quoted in ClimateWire : Meet America's 10 largest emitters
May 11, Quoted and our research featured in Forbes : Carbon Intensity Of U.S. Power Plunges As Coal Accelerates Collapse
May 9, Appeared in the PBS documentary “Power Trip: The Story of Energy” in the Transportation Episode
April 24, Quoted in Axios : Coronavirus is a Rorschach test on how best to battle climate change
April 22, Quoted in Axios : How to make it to Earth Day 2070
April 17, Quoted in ClimateWire : Coronavirus is reducing CO2. Why that's worrisome
April 1, Quoted in WIRED : Build Cities for Bikes, Buses, and Feet—Not Cars
April 1, Quoted in Forbes : If The Virus Can Decimate Global Economies So Can Climate Change
March 25, Guest on MIT Tech Review’s Radio Corona : What does the coronavirus outbreak mean for climate change?
March 25, Quoted in Vox : A Just and Sustainable Economic Response to Coronavirus, Explained
March 19, Quoted in Forbes : Want To Jump-Start The Economy? Include A Green New Deal In The Stimulus Package
March 11, Quoted in Earther : Now Is the Time to Invest in a Green New Deal
February 26, Quoted in Bloomberg Green : Order Online or Drive to the Store? The Climate Savvy Pick ‘Clicks and Bricks’
February 20, Quoted in WIRED : Cities Fighting Climate Woes Hasten ‘Green Gentrification’
February 10, Quoted and our climate educational initiatives featured in Chemical & Engineering News : Students want more climate change education. Their teachers and professors are starting to listen
February 3, Quoted and radio interview on NPR’s State Impact : Wolf’s support for petrochemicals raises climate worries as Pennsylvania tries to cut carbon emissions
January 15, Quoted and our research featured in MIT Technology Review : Climate change means the US must start building big things again
January 7, Quoted in The Atlantic : America’s Coal Consumption Entered Free Fall in 2019
2019
December 3, Radio interview on Marketplace : Battery prices are crashing. That’s good news.
November 17, Quoted and our research featured in The Los Angeles Times : Could drone deliveries help the environment? Let’s unpack that
November 17, Radio interview on KCBS San Francisco on the environmental impacts of drone delivery.
October 22, Quoted in The Guardian: PG&E warns of fresh power shutoffs for 500,000 due to fire weather
October 19, Quoted in The Chicago Daily Herald : From beach barriers to school 'oases,' how cities prepare to withstand climate change
October 11, Quoted in The Guardian : California power shutoffs: when your public utility is owned by private investors
October 9, Quoted in Gizmodo : Think California's preemptive blackouts are scary? Buckle up
October 9, Radio quote on Marketplace Morning Report : California blackouts due to wildfire risk
October 7, Quoted in Jalopnik : I Flew The $200 Manhattan-To-JFK Helicopter To Preview Our 'Flying Taxi' Future
September 26, Quoted in Inside Climate News : Amazon’s Move to Electric Trucks Is a Very Big Deal
September 25, Quoted in Axios : Retail’s climate change moment
September 25, Research mentioned in Public Source : Pittsburgh researchers investigate some of climate change’s most critical questions
September 24, Quoted in MIT Technology Review : Climate activism is now a global movement, but it’s still not enough
September 19, Published an Op-Ed with Prof. Gernot Wagner in The New York Times : Do We Really Have Only 12 Years to Avoid Climate Disaster?
September 18, Quoted in How Stuff Works : How cities prepare to withstand climate change
September 17, Quoted in The Washington Post : Saudi oil strike renews debate over U.S. energy dominance
September 9, Quoted in Axios : The Stakes of Warren’s Fracking Move
August 23, Published an Op-Ed with Dr. Corey Harper in The Conversation : Bargain-hunting robocars could spell the end for downtown parking – cities need to plan ahead now. Republished in several outlets, including The American Scientist.
August 22, Quoted in Gizmodo : Bernie Sanders' $16 Trillion Climate Plan Is Nothing Short of a Revolution
August 21, Quoted in E&E News : Can solar increase emissions? A debate erupts
August 20, Radio quote on Marketplace : Tesla’s plan for simple solar rentals could increase competition
August 15, Interview in Resilience : Teaching Energy Transition
August 12, Published an Op-Ed in Nature Climate Change : Wasting Less Electricity Before Use
August 5, Quoted in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : Too much rain is messing with pipeline operators' infrastructure plans
July 24, 2019, Podcast guest on The Energy Transition Show : Teaching Resilience
July 20, Quoted in Scientific American and E&E News : As Temperatures Soar During Heat Wave, So Will CO2
July 14, Quoted in The Virginian-Pilot : Resilience costs mount as climate crisis looms
July 9, Quoted in The New York Times : Washington Floods Expose a Double Threat: Old Drains and Climate Change
July 9, Quoted in Politico : Morning Transportation
June 26, Quoted in Huffington Post : A Longshot 2020 Candidate Wants To Push Geoengineering Into The Climate Debate
June 21, Quoted in Axios : The climate stakes of speedy delivery
June 10, Video interview in The Verge : Giant cargo drones will deliver packages farther and faster
May 16, Quoted in Gizmodo : Jay Inslee Just Dropped His $9 Trillion Plan to Fight Climate Change by Rebuilding the Entire Country
April 15, Quoted in Axios : Uber is still eyeing flying cars
March 29, Morning Edition radio quote on Pittsburgh NPR Station WESA : Advocates, Engineers Concerned Pennsylvania's Infrastructure Won't Withstand 'Weather Of The Future'
March 28, Power Sector Carbon Index featured in Axios : Carbon emissions from the U.S. power sector rose in 2018
March 24, Quoted in The Tartan : Automation continues to be relevant issue
March 12, Quoted in Slate : The Crash of the Boeing 737 Max Is a Warning to Drivers, Too
March 12, Quoted in ClimateWire : Nuclear bailout shows why it's tough to green the grid
February 20, Radio interview for Marketplace : Coal Giant Glencore Caps Production Due to Climate Concerns
February 19, Quoted in The Atlantic : A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy
February 14, Quoted in National Geographic : 3 tests the Green New Deal must pass to work
February 11, Quoted in National Geographic : What can a Green New Deal learn from other countries?
January 25, Quoted in WIRED : America Needs Way, Way More Electric-Car Charging Stations
January 3, Quoted in WIRED : VW’s Mobile Chargers Could Help EVs Conquer The World
January 2, Op-Ed in The Washington Post, as part of a series of ideas to address climate change : Encourage Electric Vehicles
2018
December 6, Quoted in The Washington Post : Power Post - The Technology 202
December 5, Quoted in The Washington Post : Waymo launches nation’s first commercial self-driving taxi service in Arizona
November 26, Quoted in The New York Times : Five Big Ways the United States Will Need to Adapt to Climate Change
November 16, Quoted in The Atlantic : The New Politics of Climate Change
November 13, Our research featured in Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering News: When the power goes out, pollution rises
November 9, Quoted in Forbes : It’s Not All Hyperloops: Elon Musk Wants To Dig Your City’s Next Sewer
November 9, Quoted in Axios : After the carbon tax fail
November 8, Quoted in E&E News : Stung by failed carbon fee, greens focus on renewables
November 7, Quoted in MIT Technology Review : People will never vote for a carbon tax, so let’s stop asking
November 4, Quoted in WIRED : Tesla's Autopilot Now Changes Lanes—And You're Gonna Help It Out
October 26, Our research featured as the Chart of the Day in Axios : Falling emissions intensity
October 25, Our research featured in The Guardian : Generating a problem across Africa
October 21, Our research featured in an article in Quartz : The cost of electricity shortages in Africa is more than just a problem of access
October 15, Co-authored op-Ed about our research in Nature Research : Shining a Light on Electricity Reliability in Sub-Saharan Africa
September 21, Quoted and our research featured in ClimateWire : Coal disappears in the heartland as renewables get cheaper
September 6, Quoted in Axios : A new way of thinking about deep decarbonization
August 29, Quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek : Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First
August 13, Quoted in Axios : Quote of the Day
August 8, Podcast guest on The Energy Transition Show : Transportation Transition
July 27, Quoted in The Fuse : Autonomous Driving Takes Power. Will That Matter for Electrification?
July 9, Mentioned in WIRED : Where Can Climate Activists Find Common Ground?
July 7, Mentioned in Mother Jones : There Are a Few Things Environmentalists Actually Do Agree On
July 6, Co-authored Op-Ed with Ph.D. student Tania Lopez-Cantu : Engineering Standards Are Not Keeping Up with Climate Change
July 6, Quoted in Pittsburgh City Paper : As climate warms, expect more Pittsburgh power outages during the hottest days
July 6, Quoted in In These Times : Self-Driving Cars Are Coming. Will They Serve Profit or the Public?
July 3, Mentioned in Grist : Agree to Agree
June 21, Power Sector Carbon Index and our research mentioned in The New York Times : The Natural Gas Industry Has a Leak Problem
June 14, Quoted in The Verge : The Boring Company’s Chicago project seems awfully cheap for something so big
June 13, Power Sector Carbon Index mentioned in The New York Times : Trump Wants to Bail Out Coal and Nuclear Power. Here’s Why That Will Be Hard
June 6, Quoted and our research featured in Axios : A fork in the road for U.S. power
May 24, Quoted in The Washington Post : Self-driving Uber did not have emergency braking turned on when it hit pedestrian, NTSB says
May 18, Quoted in Forbes : $1 Rides On Elon Musk's Space-Age Subway May Be A Stretch, But His Bricks Sound Great
May 17, Quoted in WIRED : Is Tesla's Autopilot Safe? Finding Out Demands Better Data
May 9, Quoted in MIT Technology Review : California’s rooftop solar rule is a pricey path to emissions reductions
April 25, Quoted in Forbes : There Are Holes In Elon Musk's Plans To Tunnel Through L.A. With Boring Co.
April 24, Quoted in Scientific American : To Make Autonomous Vehicles Safe, We Have to Rethink "Autonomous" and "Safe"
April 8, Quoted and Power Sector Carbon Index mentioned in National Journal : Is Trump Spurring Big Business to Go Green?
April 6, Radio guest on Knowledge@Wharton : Autonomous Car Crashes: Who — or What — Is to Blame?
April 6, Quoted in Chronicle of Higher Education : Have Academics Finally Found the Perfect Meme?
April 5, Quoted and Power Sector Carbon Index mentioned in Clean Technica : Power Sector Carbon Index Highlights Falling Levels Of Carbon Pollution
April 4, Quoted and Power Sector Carbon Index mentioned in Axios : U.S. power sector carbon emissions reach lowest level since 1988
March 21, Quoted in The Washington Post : Tempe police release video of moments before autonomous Uber hits pedestrian
February 28, Our research featured in The New York Times : If Drone Delivery Becomes a Reality, Is That Good for the Planet?
February 22, Our research featured in Anthropocene Magazine : Drone Package Delivery Will be Fast. Here’s How to make it Green
February 16, Our Op-Ed about our research, "Delivering Packages With Drones Might be Good for the Environment", published in the World Economic Forum; Smithsonian Magazine; The Conversation; The Daily Mail; GovTech; The Billings Gazette; Northwest Indiana Times; New Haven Register; Albany Times Union; SciBlogs
February 16, Our research featured in UN Environment Programme : Using drones to deliver packages could cut carbon emissions; in Green Car Congress : Study finds drone-based delivery could reduce GHG emissions and energy use in the transportation sector, if deployed sensibly
February 14, Our research featured in CNET : Amazon's delivery drones could cut greenhouse gas emissions; in MIT Technology Review; Delivery drones could reduce emissions—if they’re used properly; in Fast Company : Here’s one way drones could help make the world better
February 13, Quoted and our research featured in WIRED : Would Delivery Drones Be All That Efficient? Depends on Where You Live; in Axios : How Drone Package Delivery Can Help Fight Climate Change; in Carbon Brief : Small Drones Could be Better for Climate Than Delivery Trucks, Study Says
February 13, Our research featured in The Guardian : Express delivery: use drones not trucks to cut carbon emissions, experts say; in Forbes : How Delivery Drones Can Help Save the World; in IEEE Spectrum : Drone Delivery, If Done Right, Could Cut Emissions; in Discover Magazine : Drones Are a Greener Way to Receive Packages;
February 13, Quoted in ClimateWire : White House Building Plan Doesn't Account for Rising Temps
January 27, Quoted in The Wall Street Journal : Boston Agonizes Over How to Protect Itself From Future Storms
January 2, Quoted in Motherboard : The US Energy Grid Is Making Electric Cars Dirtier Than They Should Be
2017
December 6, Radio guest for Wharton Business Radio show Knowledge@Wharton : Will Losing the Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Kill Plug-in Cars?
November 30, Power Sector Carbon Index mentioned in The New York Times : Energy Idea for Mars Yields a Clue for Powering Data Centers
November 18, Quoted in San Jose Mercury News : Tesla’s debut of road-rocket Roadster and electric semi-truck raise big questions
November 14, Quoted in Forbes : The Anti-Gigafactory: L.A. Startup Divergent 3D Has A Plan To Disrupt Carmaking
October 12, Quoted and our climate adaptation research featured in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : Down The Stream
October 3, Quoted in WIRED : The Tricks and Treats California Can Use to Banish Fossil Fuel Cars
September 20, Op-Ed with Lee Vinsel in The Conversation : Some of the Best Parts of Autonomous Vehicles Are Already Here
September 14, Quoted in Climate Wire : Hurricanes Push Trump to Replace Stricken Flood Order
September 4, Quoted and our climate adaptation research featured in Climate Wire : Storm Makes Engineers Ask, 'How Big Do We Go?'
July 27, Quoted in WIRED : Tesla’s Model 3 Is Making Electric Vehicles Successful Even Before Its Launch
July 10, Panelist for Pittsburgh Energy Forum Series, Moderated by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Executive Editor David Shribman : The Next Generation of Transportation
July 6, Quoted in WIRED : Volvo's Electric Car Plan Isn't as Bold or as Crazy as it Seems
June 22, Quoted on NPR WESA 90.5FM : CMU Kicks Off New Quarterly Report To Track Carbon Emissions From Power Plants
May 3, Quoted in Axios : Elon Musk is Way Ahead of His Time on Underground Driving
April 26, Quoted in GCI : Scientists Probe How to Build Roads in a Changing Climate
April 13, Power Sector Carbon Index mentioned in Forbes : Sorry Mr. Trump, China Rejecting N. Korea Shipments Won't Save American Coal
April 8, Power Sector Carbon Index mentioned in Climate Central : Electricity’s Carbon Footprint in U.S. Shrinks, Sets Record
April 6, Quoted in Next Pittsburgh : Power Sector Carbon Index shows big drop in CO2 emissions, but more needs to be done
March 29, Quoted in Power Engineering Magazine : Carnegie Mellon Power Sector Carbon Index Shows 24 Percent Decline From 2005
March 29, Quoted in IEEE Spectrum : Photo Ops with Coal Miners Offer No Substitute for Fact-based Climate Policy
March 24, Quoted in Pittsburgh Business Times : CMU develops tool to measure power plant emissions
March 11, Quoted in WIRED : California Is Finally Ready for Truly Driverless Cars
March 8, Panelist at Washington Post Live Event : Infrastructure and The Road Ahead
February 17, Quoted in Congressional Quarterly Researcher : Reducing Traffic Deaths: Can Automation and tougher laws save lives?
2016
December 13, Quoted in The Washington Post : Blind man sets out alone in Google’s driverless car
October 25, Quoted in Slate : How Will Driverless Cars Change Cities?
October 20, Full transcript interview in The Washington Post : Tesla’s deep dive into driverless: ‘This is the most exciting time to be in transportation since the Model T’
September 20, Quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer : Fed guidelines for self-driving cars won't get in Pa.'s way
September 20, Radio guest for the full hour of NPR's Radio Times from WHYY : Autonomous vehicle hit Pa. streets, should we be worried?
July 24, Quoted in The New York Times : As Its Leaders Deny Warming Risks, the G.O.P. Platform Urges Private Sector to Capture CO2?
July 20, Quoted and our automation research featured in Forbes : How $600 In Auto Safety Features Could Save Up To $202 Billion In Crash Costs
July 19, Our automation research featured in Politico : Researchers Tout Benefits of Semi-Automation
June 27, Quoted in Vox : Tesla and SolarCity? Yes, it makes sense. Or at least it will
June 13, Quoted and our chart featured in Vox : Power plants are no longer America’s biggest climate problem. Transportation is.
May 6, Quoted in ClimateWire : Get Ready for Self Driving Taxis
May 5, Quoted in Scientific American : Demand for Model 3 pushes Tesla to accelerate manufacture plans
April 5, Quoted in ClimateWire : Tesla hit car delivery snags, but Model 3 orders keep coming
April 2, Quoted in CNBC : Tesla CEO Musk Says Model 3 Orders Now at 232k
March 31, Quoted and our automated vehicle fuel economy was featured in The Fuse : CMU: Testing of Autonomous Vehicles Needed to Drive Fuel Economy Gains
March 24, Our automated vehicle fuel economy research was featured in Green Car Congress : CMU study shows autonomous vehicle algorithms can have considerable effect on fuel economy; need for new approaches in testing
January 27, Quoted in The Verge : What Will Cheap Gas Do to Electric Cars?
January 1, Quoted in Mother Jones : No Parking Here
2015
November 3, Quoted in WIRED : This Guy Wants Us to Commute in Shared, Autonomous Pods
October 2, Quoted in Urban Land Magazine : Imagining the Driverless City
September 22, Quoted in Politico : VW Emissions Scandal
July 27, Quoted in The Washington Examiner : Hillary's solar plan: 'Ambitious' but 'doable'
July 15, Quoted in WalletHub : Best and Worst Cities to Be a Driver
July 10, Radio interview on NPR's WESA 90.5FM : On The Road Again: What Pittsburgh Has To Do With Cars
June 30, Radio guest for 99% Invisible : Automation Paradox
June 2, Quoted in TPM : The Future of Energy Technology
January 29, Quoted in Investors Business Daily : When Will Self-Driving Cars Arrive And What'll We Do?
January 14, TV interview on CBS-KDKA Pittsburgh : Gas Prices Falling, But Not as Low in Pittsburgh
January 7, Quoted in The Los Angeles Times : Automakers on the road to self-driving cars at Consumer Electronics Show
2014
December 14, TV guest on CBS-KDKA for the KD/PG Sunday Edition : Oil and the Economy
November 12, Invited guest blog post for NPR's On Point : U.S.-China Climate Deal is an Important Step In Long Road Ahead
November 6, Radio guest for NPR's On Point : A Dire Climate Change Report, And The Possibility For Change
November 2, Quoted and Mini Op-Ed in The New York Times : Panel’s Latest Warming Warning Misses Global Slumber Party on Energy Research
September 26, Group letter published in The New York Times : Certainties, Uncertainties and Choices with Global Warming
September 29, Quoted on NPR State Impact : Pa Turnpike Series
March 27, Quoted and our research featured on NPR's State Impact : Report finds each Marcellus gas well costs thousands in road damage
March 27, Quoted and our research featured in E&E News : Drilling boom costs Pa. thousands per well in road damage -- report
March 21, Quoted on NPR WESA : Did Congress kill wind energy jobs in PA?
March 6, Quoted in Grist : Republicans use Putin as excuse to push fossil fuel projects
March 6, Quoted in The Tartan : Cohon to direct Scott Institute
January 7, Quoted in Bloomberg News : Toyota sees hydrogen car fill-ups at dealers to trash dumps