Emily Grubert
- Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy, Keough School
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Civil engineer / environmental sociologist. PhD/PE. Energy, water, climate, buildings, justice. Fossil phaseout/universal programs. 🐰🏭⚡️@gruberte.bsky.social
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How to Save the Energy Transition: What Coal Scholars Can See Coming, and What to Do About It
The energy transition requires rapid, coordinated retirement of essentially all fossil fuel infrastructure with careful attention to impacts on workers and affected communities.
Structural green growth assumptions in energy system models obscure alternative transition strategies
Abstract Energy system models, especially integrated assessment models (IAMs), define the solution space for climate change mitigation and are widely used to inform policymaking. However, most modeling efforts only consider scenarios assuming economic growth (conceptualized as perpetual increases in gross domestic product, GDP), which is strongly coupled with increasing energy and resource use.
Fossil energy minimum viable scale
Policy Forum Energy Transition Unseen infrastructural threats to safety and decarbonization may arise as fossil energy systems are phased out Joshua Lappen and Emily GrubertAuthors Info & Affiliations Abstract The nascent global energy transition involves two parallel, mirrored processes: the retirement of existing fossil fuel–based infrastructure, and the widespread deployment of alternatives in its stead.
Introducing Environmental Research: Energy-advancing interdisciplinary understanding of energy systems during decarbonization
Editorial • The following article is Open access Introducing Environmental Research: Energy—advancing interdisciplinary understanding of energy systems during decarbonization Emily Grubert1 Published 11 April 2024 • © 2024 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd , , Citation Emily Grubert 2024 Environ.
Humans Are Pushing Migratory Species to Extinction Original
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Biden's 'hard look' at liquefied natural gas exports: How exactly does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
The Biden administration has frozen pending decisions on permit applications to export liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to countries other than U.S. free trade partners. During this pause, which will last for up to 15 months, the administration has pledged to take a "hard look" at economic, environmental and national security issues associated with exporting LNG.
How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
By Emily Grubert, Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy, University of Notre Dame The Biden administration has frozen pending decisions on permit applications to export liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to countries other than U.S. free trade partners. During this pause, which will last for up to 15 months, the administration has pledged to take a "hard look" at economic, environmental and national security issues associated with exporting LNG.
Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
A heat exchanger and transfer pipes at Dominion Energy's Cove Point LNG Terminal in Lusby, Md. AP Photo/Cliff Owen The Biden administration has frozen pending decisions on permit applications to export liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to countries other than U.S. free trade partners . During this pause, which will last for up to 15 months, the administration has pledged to take a “hard look” at economic, environmental and national security issues associated with exporting LNG.
Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
By Emily Grubert, Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy, University of Notre Dame The US, a minor liquefied natural gas supplier a decade ago, now is the world’s top source. That’s good for energy security, but bad for Earth’s climate. An energy scholar explains the trade-offs. Read complete article © The Conversation -
Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals? Original
The Biden administration has frozen pending decisions on permit applications to export liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to countries other than U.S. free trade partners. During this pause, which will last for up to 15 months, the administration has pledged to take a “hard look” at economic, environmental and national security issues associated with exporting LNG.
Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
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Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
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Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
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Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
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Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
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The distortionary effects of unconstrained for-profit carbon dioxide removal and the need for early governance intervention
Despite well over a century of understanding that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions would lead to climate change [Citation1–3] and three decades of global policy talks [Citation4], global GHG emissions continue to rise [Citation5]. The recent global response to climate change increasingly includes carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as a cornerstone of planned action, a consequence of limited action to date [Citation6].
The distortionary effects of unconstrained for-profit carbon dioxide removal and the need for early governance intervention
Abstract Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) is an emerging activity with extremely limited deployment to date, but which is mathematically required to achieve net (rather than true) zero or negative anthropogenic contribution to climate change. The required scale of CDR, however, depends on decisions about what activities will be allowed to emit greenhouse gases – the “residual emissions” that must be compensated via CDR.
Maximizing the Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions from Electricity Resource Portfolios
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Air quality, health and equity implications of electrifying heavy-duty vehicles - Nature Sustainability Original
Abstract Heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) disproportionately contribute to the creation of air pollutants and emission of greenhouse gases—with marginalized populations unequally burdened by the impacts of each. Shifting to non-emitting technologies, such as electric HDVs (eHDVs), is underway; however, the associated air quality and health implications have not been resolved at equity-relevant scales.
DOE’s error-ridden analysis on coal CCS project threatens climate and engagement goals
Emily Grubert is an associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame and a former deputy assistant secretary of carbon management at the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. is preparing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to deploy technologies that could help us reach climate goals — both through grants under 2021’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and subsidies under 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act.
'Renewable' natural gas may sound green, but it's not an antidote for climate change
Natural gas is a versatile fossil fuel that accounts for about a third of U.S. energy use. Although it produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants than coal or oil, natural gas is a major contributor to climate change, an urgent global problem. Reducing emissions from the natural gas system is especially challenging because natural gas is used roughly equally for electricity, heating, and industrial applications.
'Renewable' natural gas may sound green, but it's not an antidote for climate change
In mid-May, Zachary Hackett was on a solo hike on a mountain in Summit County, Colorado. He'd gone off the trail and was about to turn back before the sun set. But just before beginning his descent, he heard something strange coming from behind a few fallen trees. “I was not on a trail, and I was hastily backtracking the way I came because it was getting dark and the preferred routes off the mountain were impassable due to the conditions,” Hackett told The Dodo.
What happens to gas stations when the world goes electric?
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Anticipating Climate-Related Changes to Residential Energy Burden in the United States: Advance Planning for Equity and Resilience
Introduction Infrastructure is a relevant determinant of adaptive capacity, defined as “the potential or ability of a system, region, or community to adapt to the effects or impacts of climate change,”1 for two major reasons. First, when it is performing well, infrastructure can actively protect people from hazards and directly facilitate recovery (e.g., through passively survivable buildings or evacuation routes).
Emissions projections for US utilities through 2050
Decarbonization is an urgent global policy priority, with increasing movement towards zero-carbon targets in the United States and elsewhere. Given the joint decarbonization strategies of electrifying fossil fuel-based energy uses and decarbonizing the electricity supply, understanding how electricity emissions might change over time is of particular value in evaluating policy sequencing strategies.
Combined Heat and Power May Conflict with Decarbonization Goals-Air Emissions of Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power versus Combined Heat and Power Systems for Commercial Buildings | Environmental Science & Technology
This study compares the environmental impacts of a centralized natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) and a distributed natural gas-fired combined heat and power (CHP) energy system in the United States. We develop an energy-balance model in which each energy system supplies the electric, heating, and cooling demands of 16 commercial building types in 16 climate zones of the United States.
Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, Volume 1, Number 1, June 2021, June 2021
Editorial 010201 The following article is Open access Arpad Horvath Questions of sustainability and resilience surrounding the infrastructure that makes up our society are becoming ever-more relevant and increasingly important to address. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability has been launched as a unique outlet for the publication of such work, bringing together a multidisciplinary, and in some places fragmented, community and creating a home journal for their research.
Attribution of production-stage methane emissions to assess spatial variability in the climate intensity of US natural gas consumption
Although natural gas is often viewed as a commodity fuel with limited variability due to standardization for pipeline transportation, life cycle impacts of natural gas vary substantially. Greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity is one of the most policy-relevant environmental characteristics of natural gas, particularly as decarbonization efforts proceed.
They Thought They Had the Energy
Emily Grubert is a civil engineer and environmental sociologist who teaches at Georgia Tech. She researches how community and societal priorities can be better incorporated into multicriteria policy and project decisions, with a focus on energy, water, and infrastructure systems. An expert on the energy system in Texas, she has recently published research into how the United States could meet a proposed deadline of decarbonizing electricity production by 2035.
Fossil electricity retirement deadlines for a just transition
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Fossil electricity retirement deadlines for a just transition
Policy ForumEnergy and Climate Emily Grubert School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA. Email: gruberte{at}gatech.edu. See allHide authors and affiliations Science 04 Dec 2020: Vol. 370, Issue 6521, pp.
'Renewable' natural gas may sound green, but it's not an antidote for climate change
Natural gas is a versatile fossil fuel that accounts for about a third of U.S. energy use. Although it produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants than coal or oil, natural gas is a major contributor to climate change, an urgent global problem. Reducing emissions from the natural gas system is especially challenging because natural gas is used roughly equally for electricity, heating, and industrial applications.
'Renewable' natural gas may sound green, but it's not an antidote for climate change
Natural gas is a versatile fossil fuel that accounts for about a third of U.S. energy use. Although it produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants than coal or oil, natural gas is a major contributor to climate change, an urgent global problem. Reducing emissions from the natural gas system is especially challenging because natural gas is used roughly equally for electricity, heating, and industrial applications.
Life-Cycle Costing for Distributed Stormwater Control Measures on the Gray-Green Continuum: A Planning-Level Tool
Abstract Managing stormwater is an important element of sustainable water management. Access to multiple types of stormwater control measures (SCMs) along the gray-green continuum presents decision makers with flexibility in managing stormwater. Greener SCMs offer potential benefits like longer-term water retention, runoff reductions, and pollution reduction. Lack of access to context-specific life-cycle costs, however, particularly for less conventional SCMs, poses challenges for planners.
At scale, renewable natural gas systems could be climate intensive: the influence of methane feedstock and leakage rates
Renewable natural gas (RNG) is a fuel comprised of essentially pure methane, usually derived from climate-neutral (e.g. biogenic or captured) carbon dioxide (CO2). RNG is proposed as a climate friendly direct substitute for fossil natural gas (FNG), with the goal of enabling diverse natural gas users to continue operating without substantial infrastructure overhauls.
Spatially allocating life cycle water use for US coal‐fired electricity across producers, generators, and consumers
Full Paper Prof. Kelly T. Sanders Corresponding Author E-mail address: ktsanders@usc.edu Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089 USA Search for more papers by this author PDF PDF ShareShare Abstract There are water consequences across every life cycle stage of coal‐fired electricity consumption, from production and processing through combustion, which have not been studied with regional specificity.
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Understanding Water Use in the US Energy System, with Emily Grubert
This week, host Daniel Raimi talks with Emily Grubert, an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an expert on what’s known as the “energy-water nexus.” They discuss a 2018 paper that Grubert coauthored with Kelly Sanders, which provides in-depth research on the life cycle of water consumption for every major fuel source in the United States. Raimi and Grubert compare and contrast the different water profiles of coal, oil, gas, biofuels, and other sources of energy.
A regional assessment of the water embedded in the US electricity system
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Water Use in the United States Energy System: A National Assessment and Unit Process Inventory of Water Consumption and Withdrawals
The United States (US) energy system is a large water user, but the nature of that use is poorly understood. To support resource comanagement and fill this noted gap in the literature, this work presents detailed estimates for US-based water consumption and withdrawals for the US energy system as of 2014, including both intensity values and the first known estimate of total water consumption and withdrawal by the US energy system.
The Need for a Preference-Based Multicriteria Prioritization Framework in Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
Life cycle thinking is a valuable tool for integrated assessment of the environmental, social, and economic outcomes of human activities. The combination of the three as life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) is a powerful decision support tool, but it also presents important design challenges.
Overcoming Obstacles in the Mid-Transition to Clean Energy, with Emily Grubert
Daniel Raimi: Hello, and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future. I’m your host, Daniel Raimi. Today, we talk with Dr. Emily Grubert, Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. In today’s conversation, Emily will walk us through some of the biggest challenges that we might experience in the decades-long transition to a clean energy system.
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