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Op-Ed & Analysis·Jan 6, 2026

Could this be the biggest global health ROI you’ve never heard of?

via World Economic Forum
EPIC Clean Air Director Christa Hasenkopf writes that air pollution quietly erases around 6% of global gross domestic product each year, far outweighing the annual growth expected from artificial intelligence, yet receives less than 0.1% of global philanthropy. Data is...
Op-Ed & Analysis·Sep 19, 2024

One of the World’s Biggest Health Risks Is a Philanthropic Blind Spot

EPIC Clean Air Program Director Christa Hasenkopf writes in the New York Times about pollution's threat to health and the unequal nature of that threat.
Op-Ed & Analysis·Sep 19, 2024

One of the World’s Biggest Health Risks Is a Philanthropic Blind Spot

via The New York Times
EPIC Clean Air Program Director Christa Hasenkopf writes in the New York Times about pollution's threat to health and the unequal nature of that threat.
Op-Ed & Analysis·Sep 11, 2024

Tracking Air Quality the Right Way

via Project Syndicate
The international community can and must build a system that regularly tracks collective progress on reducing fine particulate matter, writes EPIC's Clean Air director Christa Hasenkopf.
Op-Ed & Analysis·Sep 6, 2024

Poor air quality is shortening our lives — asking for open data can change that

via World Economic Forum
Improving air quality is possible — but it relies on having good quality, open data that the public can access, writes EPIC's Clean Air Program director Christa Hasenkopf for the World Economic Forum.
Op-Ed & Analysis·Jul 29, 2024

Do California Farmers Respond to Electricity Prices?

via Energy Institute at HAAS
EPIC's Fiona Burlig and co-authors Louis Preonas and Matt Woerman write on how new efforts to curb groundwater depletion will impact the Golden State’s electricity use for the Energy Institute at HAAS.
Op-Ed & Analysis·Mar 6, 2024

A country’s first air quality monitor: the most valuable step to clean air

via Clean Air Fund
39% of countries have no public air pollution monitoring. A new study reveals that 46 countries can make the biggest clean air gains from implementing a single air quality monitor, writes EPIC's Director of the Clean Air Program, Christa Hasenkopf.
Op-Ed & Analysis·Apr 26, 2023

Making the Case for Climate Action: The Impacts of Climate Change on Public Health and Our Economy Due to Temperature

via United States Senate Committee on the Budget
Statement of Michael Greenstone presented to the United States Senate Committee on the Budget.
Op-Ed & Analysis·Aug 8, 2022

Why we need to invest in air quality

via World Economic Forum
We are losing more than two years off of the average human life expectancy across the world due to particulate pollution. Yet, our investment in tackling air pollution lags far behind the scale of the problem, writes EPIC's Clean Air...