IBES Professor Timmons Roberts spoke in favor of an offshore wind project during a public forum in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
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Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
J Timmons Roberts
Ittleson Professor of Environment and Society, Professor of Sociology
Research Interests
Climate change policy, Environmental social science, UNFCCC, Climate justice
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IBES and Sociology Professor Timmons Roberts offered commentary on anti-wind activism.
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The Providence Journal
Can RI force fossil fuel companies to pay for climate change? Here's how.
IBES Professor Timmons Roberts noted that fossil fuel companies have "buried the negative impacts of their product like the tobacco companies did."
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Are Anti-Renewables Activists Going Unchallenged?
IBES and Sociology Professor Timmons Roberts discussed why climate advocates should know "what strategies and the tactics are being used" by anti-renewables activists.
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A new report from the IBES-based Climate and Development Lab finds that expertise from nationwide opponents of renewables offers scripts and guidance to local anti-wind activists.
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