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Princeton University@princeton.edu · last wk.

By approaching climate policy research with an engineering lens, Princeton's @weipengclimate.bsky.social develops models that show how behavioral and political realities influence policy around climate and energy transitions.

🚨 Two postdoc openings in my group at Princeton! -Position 1: Multi-scale energy modeling - Position 2: Incorporating political economy insights into energy modeling Reviews begin mid-October. Please help spread the word! More: www.weipengenergy.com/opportunities

The @acee.princeton.edu collaboration with KAIST to integrate global trade and supply chain impacts into energy transition models is a major step toward actionable climate policy. @weipengclimate.bsky.social leads the newly announced Net-Zero Korea study from the Princeton side.

Check out this great Q&A about our recently published perspective piece on Nature Reviews Clean Technology! Full text of the paper: rdcu.be/eo4RN

Effects of the low-carbon energy transition on air pollution and health

Nature Reviews Clean Technology - The transition to a low-carbon energy system is expected to have both pollution and health impacts, across multiple scales. This Perspective provides an overview...

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Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment@andlingercenter.bsky.social · last yr.

In this Q&A, @weipengclimate.bsky.social and group members @carlacamposm.bsky.social and Jinyu Shiwang explain their work to model the air pollution and health impacts of the energy transition. “We cannot simply measure success in terms of tons of CO2 avoided,” said Campos Morales. bit.ly/45gooUW

New Online: Effects of the low-carbon energy transition on air pollution and health

Effects of the low-carbon energy transition on air pollution and health - Nature Reviews Clean Technology

The transition to a low-carbon energy system is expected to have both pollution and health impacts, across multiple scales. This Perspective provides an overview of the factors that determine the scale and distribution of these impacts and outlines potential approaches to including health benefits in decision-making about energy transitions.

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New report 📣 CGS's new analysis finds U.S. federal climate rollbacks can cause significant negative economic and health impacts, including: - a $1.1 trillion ⬇️ in GDP by 2035 - 22,800 deaths from increased PM2.5 by 2035 - $206 ⬆️ in home energy costs in 2035 go.umd.edu/ImpactsofFedClimateRollbacks

Check out our new Perspective that just came out in Nature Reviews Clean Technology 👇 👇 Here is the view-only full text link: rdcu.be/eo4RN

Effects of the low-carbon energy transition on air pollution and health

Nature Reviews Clean Technology - The transition to a low-carbon energy system is expected to have both pollution and health impacts, across multiple scales. This Perspective provides an overview...

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Center for Global Sustainability@ctrglobsust.bsky.social · last yr.

How can the energy transition impact public health and health disparities? A new perspective in @natrevcleantech.nature.com discusses the current understanding of how the energy transition impacts health and the challenges in assessing pollution and health impacts: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Our new perspective "Effects of the low-carbon energy transition on air pollution and health" just came out in Nature Reviews Clean Technology! Here is the full text link (view-only): rdcu.be/eo4RN Please reach out if you'd like to get a pdf version or discuss more!

Effects of the low-carbon energy transition on air pollution and health

Nature Reviews Clean Technology - The transition to a low-carbon energy system is expected to have both pollution and health impacts, across multiple scales. This Perspective provides an overview...

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Climate actions not only reduce CO2 but also lower the health impacts from air pollution. A recent study by @andlingercenter.bsky.social and CGS finds that combined federal & subnational U.S. climate actions can reduce particulate-matter related deaths by 6,600 in 2030: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Substantial air quality and health co-benefits from combined federal and subnational climate actions in the United States

Climate actions not only reduce carbon emissions but also lower the health damage from air pollution. This study finds substantial air quality and health co-benefits from combined federal and subnatio...

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Could the EV transition be a double-edged sword? Research led by @weipengclimate.bsky.social reveals that while EVs are key to a sustainable future, they could create air pollution hotspots in China & India due to increased SO2 emissions from refining minerals like nickel & cobalt. bit.ly/4iYhyID

The clean energy transition is a necessary step toward improving public health in the United States. A new study in @cp-oneearth.bsky.social finds that an all-of-society approach to addressing climate change can improve air quality and health across every U.S. state: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

A big shoutout to @weipengclimate.bsky.social @jessedjenkins.com and these amazing faculty members for their incredible teaching during the fall 2024 semester! As judged by the overall course ratings from our students, they truly deserve all the praise. engineering.princeton.edu/news/2025/03...

Princeton Engineering - Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

Dean Andrea Goldsmith and Vice Dean Antoine Kahn are proud to recognize the following faculty for their outstanding teaching during the fall 2024

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Low-carbon tech investment presents an opportunity to improve public health & increase jobs. To realize those benefits, recent research illustrates how U.S. federal policies can empower communities and initiate partnerships for action on both energy and health: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Drawing from the takeaways of a Princeton SPIA in D.C. workshop, @weipengclimate.bsky.social and co-authors identified challenges and opportunities for incorporating health and equity considerations into energy decision-making processes. Their commentary is published in One Earth. bit.ly/4ho5HTm

Research Record: Seizing the Policy Opportunities for Health- and Equity-Improving Energy Decisions | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.If you’d like your work c...

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Thanks for the shoutout, @kmkennedy6.bsky.social ! Check out our new commentary about ways to pursue health and equity-improving energy decisions 👇👇

Kathleen Kennedy@kmkennedy6.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨New paper alert! 🚨Excited to share this commentary on synergies between climate action and health, led by @weipengclimate.bsky.social. authors.elsevier.com/c/1kTSe9C~Iu...

🚨Two new papers out from Princeton ZERO Lab that advance best practices & capabilities in power systems modeling🚨 #1. Best practices in modeling long-duration energy storage, led by Gabe Mantegna in Environmental Research: Energy iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #MacroEnergySystems 🔌💡

Establishing best practices for modeling multi-day energy storage in deeply decarbonized energy systems - IOPscienceSearch

Establishing best practices for modeling multi-day energy storage in deeply decarbonized energy systems, Gabriel Mantegna, Wilson Ricks, Aneesha Manocha, Neha Patankar, Dharik Mallapragada, Jesse Jenkins

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We will start reviewing applications for this postdoc position next week👇 Please help spread the word! Link: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Wei Peng@weipengclimate.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨Postdoc opportunities🚨 My group is looking for new postdocs to model institutional and human dimensions of energy transition! Review will start 1/15. Application link here: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app... Please help spread the word and reach out if you are interested!

Check out this great story about our recent ES&T paper 👇 Key message: the future pollution impacts from EVs in China and India will depend a lot on supply chain emissions for batteries. Paper link: pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Multisectoral Emission Impacts of Electric Vehicle Transition in China and India

Transitioning to electric vehicles (EVs) is a central strategy for reducing carbon dioxide and air pollutant emissions. Although the emission impacts of reduced gasoline combustion and increased power...

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Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment@andlingercenter.bsky.social · 2y ago

New #PrincetonU research from @weipengclimate.bsky.social has uncovered a potential unintended consequence of the electric vehicle transition in India and China. bit.ly/49C8i9y

A lot of my group members will be at #AGU24 this week in DC! Check out our presentations if you are interested in the human aspects of energy transition👇

In light of lagging progress toward climate targets, Andlinger Center researcher Chris Greig and co-author Sam Uden proposed a different strategy for navigating the risks of the energy transition in a Nature Communications perspective. bit.ly/3B1cPpg

Perspective: Is it time to consider temporary ‘off-ramps’ for our climate targets?

In a recent perspective, Chris Greig and Sam Uden call for a reconsideration of how to navigate the risks of transforming energy systems in only a handful of decades.

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The new NYT piece on China's supply chain strategy reveals how Beijing is rewriting the rules of economic warfare. Trump's claim that "China pays for tariffs" fundamentally misunderstands modern economic power. Here's why: 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/b...

China Has a New Playbook to Counter Trump: ‘Supply Chain Warfare’

A series of swipes at American companies show how China could take the initiative in a new trade war, using its economic dominance to exact pain.

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Here's a job that comes along once or twice in a career: Head of CMU's Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP). EPP brings tech & policy together, made big policy impacts over 50 yrs, & is the best in the world in what we do. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/158026 www.cmu.edu/epp/index.html

🚨Postdoc opportunities🚨 My group is looking for new postdocs to model institutional and human dimensions of energy transition! Review will start 1/15. Application link here: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app... Please help spread the word and reach out if you are interested!

Excited that @andlingercenter.bsky.social 's first post on this site is about our work! Thanks for the shoutout 😀 Check out our paper on how to incorporate pollution, health and equity concerns into Pennsylvania's coal retirement strategies👇 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Designing Retirement Strategies for Coal-Fired Power Plants To Mitigate Air Pollution and Health Impacts

Retiring coal power plants can reduce air pollution and health damages. However, the spatial distribution of those impacts remains unclear due to complex power system operations and pollution chemistry and transport. Focusing on coal retirements in Pennsylvania (PA), we analyze six counterfactual scenarios for 2019 that differ in retirement targets (e.g., reducing 50% of coal-based installed capacity vs generation) and priorities (e.g., closing plants with higher cost, closer to Environmental Justice Areas, or with higher CO2 emissions). Using a power system model of the PJM Interconnection, we find that coal retirements in PA shift power generation across PA and Rest of PJM, leading to scenario-varying changes in the plant-level release of air pollutants. Considering pollution transport and the size of the exposed population, these emissions changes, in turn, give rise to a reduction of 6–136 PM2.5-attributable deaths in PJM across the six scenarios, with most reductions occurring in PA. Among our designed scenarios, those that reduce more coal power generation yield greater aggregate health benefits due to air quality improvements in PA and adjacent downwind regions. In addition, comparing across the six scenarios evaluated in this study, vulnerable populations─in both PA and Rest of PJM─benefit most in scenarios that prioritize plant closures near Environmental Justice Areas in PA. These results demonstrate the importance of considering cross-regional linkages and sociodemographics in designing equitable retirement strategies.

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Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment@andlingercenter.bsky.social · 2y ago

Researchers led by @weipengclimate.bsky.social have demonstrated that traditional strategies for retiring coal plants based on minimizing costs could be leaving other #climate and equity benefits on the table. 🧪 acee.princeton.edu/acee-news/re...