MLML alumna Allison Crimmins ’07 has been chosen by the Biden administration to oversee the Fifth U.S. National Climate Assessment. This report will act as the U.S. government’s next authoritative report on the consequences of climate change. 

“It’s becoming increasingly obvious that climate change isn’t something that’s happening far off in the future or somewhere far away to someone else. It’s here now and happening to us,” Crimmins said in an interview with the Washington Post. “As we head into uncharted territory, I think of the National Climate Assessment as an atlas to help move us forward.”

Read more in the Washington Post.