Emily Grubert
Keough 91视频 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’s 91视频
Grubert in the News
Marketplace
Audio
February 05, 2026
These are less-efficient means of generating power from a fuel that is not the cleanest at baseline, said Emily Grubert, associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame.
Science
Audio
February 05, 2026
Next on the show, modeling the fall of fossil fuels during the decarbonization of energy systems, with civil engineer and environmental sociologist Emily Grubert and historian and engineer Joshua Lappen, both at the University of Notre Dame. The pair wrote a policy forum on predicting chokepoints or “minimum viable scales” in the decline of fossil fuel networks—in effect, when a system might get too small to maintain its function.
Inside Climate News
February 05, 2026
A new paper in the journal Science lays out the situation. I spoke with the authors, both of the University of Notre Dame: Emily Grubert, a professor of sustainable energy policy, and Joshua Lappen, a historian and engineer.
Tech Xplore
February 02, 2026
In a study published in the journal Science, University of Notre Dame researchers Emily Grubert and Joshua Lappen argue that fossil fuel systems might be far more fragile than current energy models assume.
ScienceBlog
February 02, 2026
Buried in the plumbing of a petroleum refinery somewhere in Texas, deep in the maze of steel towers and pipes that crack crude oil into usable fuels, sits a threshold no one designed for. Below about 65% capacity, the machinery simply can’t operate safely. Not “inefficiently” or “unprofitably.” Can’t operate at all. This is what University of Notre Dame researchers Emily Grubert and Joshua Lappen call “minimum viable scale,” the point where energy systems built for growth collapse when forced to shrink.
Scientific American
August 20, 2024
But Emily Grubert, a University of Notre Dame sociologist who previously worked for the DOE on DAC hubs, says “paying the oil companies to stop doing oil” is fruitless.
WXPR
Audio
July 05, 2024
“These new regulations are actually the first time that we’ve really officially regulated greenhouse gases from existing power plants,” said Emily Grubert, an associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame.
Yahoo! News, Chicago Tribune, MSN
May 27, 2024
Emily Grubert, an associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame, has urged elected officials and other policymakers to be straight with Americans about impending job losses in the fossil fuel industry. Leaders should prepare now for a decline in local tax revenues after coal plants close, she has said.
Grist
May 09, 2024
“This is a regulation that on its face appears to be mostly about CCS,” said Emily Grubert, a civil engineer and environmental sociologist at the University of Notre Dame. But Grubert believes that the rule can be harnessed for other ends: “The goal of the climate movement is for it to be about plant retirement.”
The New York Times
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
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 91视频 of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, found it can be more polluting than fossil gas.
Anchorage Daily News
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Mother Jones
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.
HuffPost
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.
Wired
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
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.