SPEA Dean John Graham and others were quoted in a story on the Obama Administration's sweeping fuel-economy and emissions initiative. The action reopened a fierce debate over tradeoffs between fuel economy and auto safety.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it intends to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Faculty experts at SPEA expressed different reactions, but agree the decision could and should put pressure on Congress to take action on greenhouse gases.
IU SPEA professor Marc Lame recently attended the Environmental Protection Agency's first bedbug summit in Arlington, VA. The EPA's federal advisory committee called the meeting of scientists in response to a resurgence of bedbugs in hotels, college dorms and many other places across the country.