New Researcher Appointments

Senior Research Scientist Marcus Sarofim has joined the Health, Environment, and Policy program, where he will contribute to environmental economics issues. Previously, Sarofim spent seventeen years at the EPA’s Climate Change Division, where he contributed to and helped defend the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, led climate impacts assessment work, was part of the climate website and indicators team, and developed the FrEDI model for estimating US damages from greenhouse gas emissions at the state level.

Nolan Hicks has transitioned from Fellow to Research Scholar within the Transportation and Land Use program, where he will continue to work on case studies about intercity rail electrification. He’s spent a decade reporting on and writing about New York City government and politics, including authoring investigative pieces that examined how the MTA designs subway stations and why city services frequently fail to reach the needy and mentally ill. His stories across his career have prompted reforms and helped lead to federal prosecutions.

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