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Robert Kleinberg: The Newly Enacted Climate Legislation (Inflation Reduction Act of 2022)

What Does It Mean for Greenhouse Gas Control in General and Methane in Particular?

Event Details:

Thursday, August 25, 2022
12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT

Location

Online

This event is open to:

Alumni/Friends
Faculty/Staff
General Public
Members
Students

Slides

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VvteXD_dX81eBEloQh8MsXKcZGm4cyDA/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L_Y4oqf6zEf-LP79Who8rxqN-5nuZN2X/view?usp=sharing

Bio

Robert L. Kleinberg is Senior Research Scholar at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, and Senior Fellow at the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy.  His current interests include environmental and regulatory issues associated with the oil and gas industry.  From 1980 to 2018 Dr. Kleinberg was employed by Schlumberger, the premier oilfield service company, attaining the rank of Schlumberger Fellow, one of about a dozen to have held this rank in a workforce of 100,000.  From 1978 to 1980 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory.  Dr. Kleinberg was educated at the University of California, Berkeley (B.S. Chemistry, 1971) and the University of California, San Diego (Ph.D. Physics, 1978).  Dr. Kleinberg has authored more than 120 academic and professional papers, holds 41 U.S. patents, and has invented several geophysical instruments that have been commercialized on a worldwide basis.  Dr. Kleinberg is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and serves on the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 

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