EPIC Supported Award-Winning Climate Data Portal

SAN DIEGO (August 6, 2021) - The Energy Policy Initiatives Center (EPIC) at the University of San Diego (USD) School of Law supported a project that was recently selected by the California Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP) to receive an Outstanding Award for Environmental Resource Document. The project, led by the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) and supported with funding from the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans), developed an online tool to visualize data related to climate policies and to track related activities of the local jurisdictions in the San Diego Region. 

SANDAG’s Climate Data Portal presents greenhouse gas emissions and data across a wide range of policy activities including energy efficiency, clean energy, transportation policies to reduce vehicle-miles traveled, and solid waste reduction. The Data Portal also provides Snapshots, annual reports to summarize climate actions taken by local jurisdictions.

EPIC supported SANDAG on this project by identifying and collecting data, advising on the data portal structure and functionality, and analyzing data for use in Snapshot documents. This is part of EPIC’s broader portfolio of project to support climate planning and policy development across the region and state.

The award will be presented at the AEP State Conference Awards Ceremony in August 2021.

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

Each year, USD 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 22nd 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.