Lara Fowler, chief sustainability officer at Penn State, director of Penn State Sustainability, and teaching professor of law, will give the talk, “Decarbonizing Penn State: How Does Law, Policy, and Financing Fit In?” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 18, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus. Talk will also be available via Zoom.
Penn State has been working to lower its greenhouse gas emissions for more than two decades, with a 50% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions for the entire University recently achieved. In this talk, Fowler will sketch how legal and policy changes in the energy world have or could affect Penn State's decarbonization effort. This includes the technical standards that led to the transition from coal to natural gas in 2016 or more recent impacts related to the PJM Independent System Operator that runs the regional transmission grid.