Energy Dept. Awards $6 Billion for Green Steel, Cement and Even Macaroni Factories

“It’s different from the electricity sector, where widely available alternatives to fossil fuels like wind, solar and batteries have come down dramatically in cost,” Morgan Bazilian, a professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines, said ....
March 25, 2024

Where the World Is (and Isn’t) Making Progress on Climate Change

“There aren’t many clear winners that have emerged just yet,” said Morgan Bazilian, a professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines.
November 30, 2023

Tesla’s Pickup Truck Is Coming Soon. Maybe.

“Broadly the concept could make sense,” said Kip Findley, a professor of metallurgical and materials engineering at the Colorado School of Mines who has done research on advanced steel for vehicles. “This is pushing steel development forward and ....
February 6, 2023

Forever Chemicals No More? PFAS Are Destroyed With New Technique

“Most technologies for PFAS treatment in use today only serve to remove PFAS from water, but that just concentrates the PFAS wastes,” said Timothy Strathmann, an environmental engineer at the Colorado School of Mines.
August 18, 2022

Opinion: How to Wean Europe Off Russian Gas as Swiftly as Possible

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy and former lead energy specialist at the World Bank, was a co-author on this guest essay.
March 12, 2022

Gas Flaring Declined in 2020, Study Finds

The report, published at the end of April, relied on data collected by two satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and analyzed at the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines.
May 10, 2021

Drillers Burned Off Gas at a Staggering Rate as Winter Storm Hit Texas

The trends were corroborated by Mikhail Zhizhin, a researcher at the Colorado School of Mines, who pioneered the use of satellite observations to measure flaring.
March 26, 2021

Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?

Last summer, distressed by police officers’ treatment of protesters in Denver, two Colorado roboticists — Tom Williams, of the Colorado School of Mines and Kerstin Haring, of the University of Denver — started drafting “No Justice, No Robots.”
November 22, 2020

Antarctica vs. Science: For researchers using delicate, one-of-a-kind equipment, the extreme conditions at the bottom of the planet pose special challenges

“I promise you, there are no projects in Antarctica where the equipment works perfectly,” said Matthew Siegfried, a glaciologist at the Colorado School of Mines.
May 2, 2020

Camp discusses surge in student demand for computer science courses with The New York Times

Tracy Camp, professor and head of the Computer Science Department at Colorado School of Mines, was recently interviewed by The New York Times about the national surge in student demand for computer science courses and how universities are dealing ....
January 24, 2019