EPIC Team Supports Equinox Project’s Quality of Life Dashboard

SAN DIEGO (June 13, 2019) – In its 10th year, the Equinox Project and its Quality of Life Dashboard transitioned from the Center for Sustainable Energy to The Nonprofit Institute, School of Leadership, at the University of San Diego (USD). The Quality of Life Dashboard, which was updated on June 12th, and serves as a unique shared point of reference across jurisdictions to track a set of specific indicators that bring together solutions for a healthy economy and clean environment for all. The Dashboard helps to educate regional citizens and serves as a tool for decision-makers. The Energy Policy Initiatives Center (EPIC) at USD’s Law School has been an integral part of the Dashboard’s data analysis since its inception and contributed to this year's Dashboard. In particular, the EPIC team supported indicators related to climate change, electric vehicles, electricity use, renewable energy, energy storage, and traffic and congestion. EPIC also identified the state legal and regulatory trends that are leading to local action.

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About EPIC

The Energy Policy Initiatives Center (EPIC) is a non-profit academic and research center of the University of San Diego School of Law that studies energy policy issues affecting the San Diego region and California. EPIC integrates research and analysis, law school study, and public education, and serves as a source of legal and policy expertise and information in the development of sustainable solutions that meet our future energy needs.

About the University of San Diego School of Law

Recognized for the excellence of its faculty, curriculum and clinical programs, the University of San Diego (USD) School of Law educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school's faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 36th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 29th nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.