Please join the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media (PCSSM) for this fireside chat between PCSSM Director Michael Mann and EPA Chief of Staff Dan Utech. The two will discuss progress that has been made by the current administration over the past few years in addressing the climate threat, including critical climate legislation signed into law by the Biden-Harris administration, the carbon emissions reductions we’re seeing in the U.S. and around the world, and the importance of youth engagement.
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This event will be both in-person in Huntsman Hall Room 265 and live-streamed via Zoom (with a recording posted to the PCSSM YouTube for later viewing). Coffee and donuts will be served.
This event is part of Penn Climate Week – for more information and events, please click here.
A Zoom link will be emailed to virtual attendees before the event.
Dan Utech
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Dan Utech is Administrator Michael Regan’s Chief of Staff of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Dan has over 20 years of experience in environmental policy. Dan served as Deputy Assistant to President Obama for Energy and Climate Change, leading The White House and cross-governmental teams to develop and implement energy and climate change policy. Dan also served as a Senior Advisor to Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
Prior to his federal agency experience, Dan worked in the Senate for 10 years, where he worked on a range of environmental and energy policy issues, including for Senator Hillary Clinton. Dan started his Washington career at EPA as a Presidential Management Intern. He has been a lecturer at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, from which he received a M.E.S. degree. He also holds degrees from the Yale School of Management and Amherst College.
Michael Mann
Director of Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media;
Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania; Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action
Dr. Michael Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. His research focuses on climate science and climate change. He was selected by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002, was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geophysical Union in 2012. He received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement 2019 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020. He is a Fellow of the AGU, AMS, GSA, AAAS and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is co-founder of RealClimate.org, author of more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications, numerous op-eds and commentaries, and six books including Dire Predictions, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, The Madhouse Effect, The Tantrum that Saved the World, The New Climate War and Our Fragile Moment.