Emily Grubert
Keough School of Global Affairs, College of Engineering
Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy
- Managing the energy transition
- Justice in the energy and climate transition
- Macro energy systems
- Life cycle assessment
- Multicriteria decision support
- Carbon management
- Liquefied natural gas (LNG)
Grubert in the News
The New York Times
E.P.A. Severely Limits Pollution From Coal Burning Power Plants
April 25, 2024
Emily Grubert, an associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame, said it was possible but unlikely that coal plants would be able to continue operating under the new regulations.
The Tyee | Canada
Green Energy or Greenwashing? Inside FortisBC’s ‘Renewable Gas’ Claims
March 20, 2024
Despite Fortis’s climate-friendly branding, renewable natural gas emissions impacts can vary. In some cases, Emily Grubert, associate professor at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, found it can be more polluting than fossil gas.
Anchorage Daily News
The world’s leader in carbon capture shows why it’s a long shot
February 26, 2024
Deploying CCS is so energy intensive and expensive, said Emily Grubert, a professor at the University of Notre Dame. “If you’re not required to do it, you’re not going to do it.”
Environmental News Bits
Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
February 20, 2024
Emily Grubert, associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame and a former official at the U.S. Department of Energy, explains why large-scale LNG exports raise complex questions for U.S. policymakers.
The Conversation, Yahoo! News
Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
February 07, 2024
Emily Grubert, associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame and a former official at the U.S. Department of Energy, explains why large-scale LNG exports raise complex questions for U.S. policymakers.
Yahoo! News, The Indianapolis Star
EPA OKs state's first plant to cut CO2 emissions through sequestration. What that means.
February 01, 2024
Emily Grubert, professor at the University of Notre Dame who previously worked on carbon management with the U.S. Department of Energy, said carbon capture and storage is technology that in specific settings may help reach climate goals.
Bloomberg
The World’s Next Big Carbon Capture Challenge? Figuring Out How to Use It
January 04, 2024
One of those hard-to-abate sectors is cement, which accounts for about 8% of global emissions. While parts of the cement-making process can be electrified, some of the CO2 emissions from production are “fundamental to the process,” said Emily Grubert, an associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame.
ClimateWire
DOE docs: Carbon removal proposal bets on rare nuclear reactors
January 03, 2024
Emily Grubert, who served in the Biden DOE as deputy assistant secretary for carbon management, said the proposal’s inclusion of a sustainable aviation fuel plant and rail shipment of CO2 suggests CarbonCapture could be hedging its bets on sequestering carbon. “The decision to add a SAF facility makes me feel like the company’s actual intent is to make SAF,” said Grubert, who is now a sustainable energy policy professor at the University of Notre Dame.
Bloomberg
The World’s Leader in Carbon Capture Shows Why It’s a Long Shot
Audio
December 11, 2023
Deploying CCS is so energy intensive and expensive, said Emily Grubert, a professor at the University of Notre Dame. “If you're not required to do it, you're not going to do it.”
Tech HQ
Technology to save the planet
November 14, 2023
Emily Grubert, associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame, said that with billions of dollars rushing into carbon removal, it’s crucial to decide how big a role it should play in tackling climate change.
The New York Times
In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air
November 09, 2023
The debate over how big a role carbon removal should play in tackling climate change is still in early stages, said Emily Grubert, associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame. But with billions of dollars rushing in, she said, it’s a crucial discussion.
Los Angeles Times
Would an occasional blackout help solve climate change?
July 21, 2023
The power grid is already prone to blackouts caused by events as small and difficult to avoid as a squirrel chewing on an electric line, said Emily Grubert, a civil engineer and environmental sociologist at the University of Notre Dame.
HuffPost
The U.S. Finally Has A Real Climate Law. Get Ready For More Pipelines.
August 20, 2022
“There’s a massive amount of infrastructure across multiple industries — regulated differently, owned differently, with different profit structures and different expertise — that [goes] into the maintenance of fossil fuel supply chains,” said Emily Grubert, an associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame.
Mother Jones
Just How Clean Is “Clean” Hydrogen, Anyway?
August 20, 2022
“Right now it’s a completely meaningless term,” says Emily Grubert, who studies sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame.
Wired
How Clean is ‘Clean’ Hydrogen?
August 08, 2022
“Right now it’s a completely meaningless term,” says Emily Grubert, who studies sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame.
Politico
This climate techno-fix is back in vogue
July 12, 2022
That could prolong fossil fuel dependence while increasing costs, which are ultimately paid by consumers, according to Emily Grubert, an energy policy professor at the University of Notre Dame who recently finished a stint in the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management.