Virginia Zaunbrecher is the Program & Outreach Director of the Sustainable Technology & Policy Program (STPP) at UCLA. Her research interests focus on the use of new technological advances to approve regulatory and business decision making, and the implementation of prevention-based regulations and programs. She also manages STPP’s operations. She earned her law degree from Berkeley Law, with a certificate in law and technology, and her B.S. in molecular biology and history, with comprehensive honors and with distinction from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Prior to joining STPP, Ms. Zaunbrecher worked as a program director in international humanitarian aid, with a focus on health and agriculture programs and in private practice at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobsen.
A new study by the UCLA Williams Institute finds that LGBTQ people in same-sex couples are at greater risk of exposure to the harms of climate change compared to straight couples.
A state bill to cap the fixed charges utilities can collect in California would shut down an important debate about equity and rate design. Here’s a better way forward.
“We have a long way to go, but we’ve started down the path.” I asked my UCLA Emmett Institute colleagues what climate actions give them hope on Earth Day. Here’s how they answered.
Guest contributor Rebecca Hamilton previews several opinions that touch on the question of the international legal obligations of States in light of the climate emergency.
There’s an electric car culture war raging. It doesn’t hurt to say obvious things, like that electric cars reduce driving costs and pollute far less than gas-powered cars.
The eclipse mania gripping U.S. media and the entire nation is an opportunity to gaze in awe at the climate crisis we’ve unleashed and talk about our collective response.
Several of China’s most prominent environmental advocates will join a keynote talk at UCLA Law on the role of civil society in addressing China’s global environmental impacts.