Environment/Energy
Promoting equity and justice in environment and energy policies through science and technology
Through an interdisciplinary approach, with the expertise of talented faculty affiliates, STPP strives to advance education, research, and community engagement to promote equity and justice in environmental and energy policy work. Our projects range from air quality studies in Detroit, Michigan, using Strava data to promote safer roads for bikers with disabilities, to reporting on advanced nuclear reactor technology’s implications on marginalized communities and much more.
(I)t is difficult to imagine an environment/energy topic that wouldn't benefit from an STPP-informed approach. The ways we interact with the environment and approach environmental challenges are fully entwined with and shaped by policy and politics.

Olivia David
Environmental Justice didn't start with the federal government, and it won't end with the federal government. So it is up to everyone to make sure you are using your power and privilege for good.

Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome
Air Quality and Truck Traffic
Selected Publications on Environment/Energy
- Air Quality and Truck Traffic and Air Quality 101 (in Detroit)
- Battery Energy Storage System Deployment: Local and State Policy Considerations
- Vehicle Scrappage Policies for Transportation Decarbonization
- Consumers Energy: Don't Count on Us
- People with Disabilities Must Be Included in Climate Action Planning
- Decentralized Wastewater Treatment in Detroit
Air Quality 101
Kyle Whyte
Kyle’s research on environmental justice addresses moral and political issues facing Indigenous peoples in the areas of climate change, conservation, and cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and science institutions. He is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
Todd Allen, Chihiro Kikuchi Collegiate Professor and Glenn F. and Gladys H. Knoll Department Chair of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Shalanda H. Baker, Vice Provost for Sustainability and Climate Action
Avik Basu, faculty member in the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Rosina Bierbaum, Professor and Dean Emerita of the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment (now School for Environment and Sustainability)
Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Bilal Butt, Associate Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability
Michael T. Craig, Assistant Professor of Energy Systems at the School for Environment and Sustainability
John DeCicco, research professor emeritus at the University of Michigan Energy Institute
Denia Djokić, Assistant Research Scientist at the Fastest Path to Zero Initiative
Rajiv Ghimire, faculty member in the School for Environment and Sustainability
Robert Goodspeed, Chair and Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
Robert Hampshire, associate professor of public policy at the Ford School, a research associate professor in both the U-M Transportation Research Institute's (UMTRI) Human Factors group and Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE).
Catherine Hausman, Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy
Jennifer Haverkamp, Graham Family Director of the Graham Sustainability Institute, a professor from practice at Michigan Law School, and a professor of practice at the Ford School of Public Policy
Devin Judge-Lord, assistant professor at the Ford School of Public Policy
Mike Liemohn, Professor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
Thomas P. Lyon, Dow Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Sarah Mills, Director of the Center for EmPowering Communities at the Graham Sustainability Institute and a Professor of Practice in the Urban & Regional Planning Program
Barry Rabe, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emeritus; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy; Professor Emeritus of Environmental Policy; Professor Emeritus of the Environment; Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Daniel Raimi, fellow at Resources for the Future and a lecturer at the Ford School of Public Policy
Kaitlin Raimi, associate professor of public policy at the Ford School
Tony Reames, Tishman Professor of Environmental Justice and Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability
Perrin Selcer, Associate Professor of History and Program in the Environment, Director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program
Mike Shriberg, Professor of Practice & Engagement in the School for Environment & Sustainability (SEAS) with concurrent appointments with the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research and Michigan Sea Grant
Sita Syal, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Parth Viashnav, Assistant Professor of Sustainable Systems, School for Environment and Sustainability
Aditi Verma, Assistant Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
James Wells, Professor of Physics
Kyle Powys Whyte, George Willis Pack Professor; University Diversity & Social Transformation Professor; Professor of Philosophy; Tishman Center Faculty Director
Environment/Energy News
More News
- STPP Faculty Affiliate Monica Dus to direct new Office of National Laboratories.
- Student researcher Olivia David is featured in the University Record for her flood resilience efforts.
- STPP receives Carbon Neutrality Acceleration grant, examining nuclear power.
- Experiential Learning with OSI
- Environmental Policy & Justice PhD Candidate Ember McCoy discusses European environmental conference experience, funded by STPP career grant.
Graduate Courses
- BA 605 Green Development
- CEE 564 Greenhouse Gas Control
- EAS 480 Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Problem Solving
- EAS 501 Climate Change, Energy, and Social Justice
- EAS 501 Energy Law
- EAS 501 Environmental Law and Policy
- EAS 501 Methods and Approaches for Analyzing Sustainability and Development Problems
- EAS 501 Public Lands and Natural Resources Law
- EAS 512 Strategies for Sustainable Development I: Enterprise Integration
- EAS 513 Strategies for Sustainable Development II: Market Transformation
- EAS 523 Ecological Risk Assessment
- EAS 529 Indigenous Sustainability and Environmental Justice
- EAS 558 Water Policy and Politics
- EAS 562 Environmental Policy, Politics, and Organizations
- EAS 567 Social Vulnerability and Adaptation to Environmental Change
- EAS 572 Environmental Impact Assessment
- EAS 575 Climate Economics and Policy
- EAS 577 Political Ecology I: Environmental Violence
- EAS 677 Resilience Solutions: Climate Adaptation from Global to Local
- EAS 686 Environmental Policy
- EAS 731 Interdisciplinary Problem Solving Initiative: Environmental, Social, and Governance Policies
- EHS 504 Genes and the Environment
- EHS 570 Water Quality Management
- EHS 597 Environmental Health and Policy
- ENSENG 501 Seminars in Energy Systems Technology and Policy
- **LAW 534 Energy Law
- **LAW 634 Water Wars: Law and Policy to Save the Great Lakes
- **LAW 679 Environmental Law and Policy
- **LAW 684 Health Law
- **LAW 761 Water Law
- PubPol 519 Sustainable Energy Systems
- PubPol 563 Politics of Environmental Regulation
- PubPol 564 Government Regulation of Industry and the Environment
- URP 620 Energy Planning
Undergraduate Courses
- ARCH/ENVIRON/URP 357 Architecture, Sustainability and the City: Ideas, Forces and People Shaping the Built Environment (HU)
- ENVIRON 305 (001)/ARTDES 300 Green Building (ID)
- ENVIRON 370/URP/ARCH 423 Introduction to Urban and Environmental Planning
- ENVIRON 408 Land Use Policy, Law and the Environment
- ENVIRON 462 (007) Sustainable Towns
- AAS 322/ENVIRON 335 Intro to Environmental Politics: Race, Class, & Gender (ULWR, SS, RE)
- CEE 265 Sustainable Engineering Principles
- CEE 564/ ESENG/ISD 535 Greenhouse Gas Control (BS)
- CEE 565/ESENG 501 Seminars on Energy Systems Technology and Policy
- EARTH/ENVIRON 380 Natural Resources, Economics, and the Environment (ULWR, BS, NS, QR/2)
- EAS 574/PUBPOL 519/ESENG 599/RCNSCI 419 Sustainable Energy Systems
- ENVIRON 201/RCNSCI 202 Ecological Issues (BS, NS)
- ENVIRON 204 Under Pressure: Water Systems, Society, and the Environment (ID)
- ENVIRON 207 Sustainability and Society (SS)
- ENVIRON 222 Introduction to Environmental Justice (SS, RE)
- ENVIRON 235 Environmental Economics, Policy, and Justice (SS)
- ENVIRON 306 Global Water (SS)
- ENVIRON 312/PUBPOL 312/POLSCI 380 Environmental Policy
- ENVIRON 321 Climate Change and Adaptation (SS)
- ENVIRON/EAS 475/EHS 588 Environmental Law
- ENVIRON/ORGSTUDY/RCIDIV 391 Sustainability and the Campus (ID)
- ENVIRON/PHYSICS 210 Sustainable Energy Futures (BS, NS)
- ENVIRON/PUBPOL 412 Environmental Values in Public Policy
- INTLSTD 401 (003) Global Climate Justice