ISG Faculty, Nicholas Shapiro and Bharat Venkat, co-author an opinon piece for the LA Times: “California will finally have indoor heat standards for workplaces — with a cruel exception”. Excerpt: “A state board recently voted unanimously to create long-awaited indoor heat standards for California workers. After a final legal review, that will mean protections for millions of people with jobs…
Image Credit: Patrick Semansky/AP In November of 2016 ISG Professor Nicholas Shapiro emailed a dozen colleagues initiating a collective conversation on how they might be able to leverage their research skills in anticipation of the new administration’s likely dismantlement of federal environmental and climate protections. This email led to the creation of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), which…