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FILE PHOTO: Penn State President Eric J. Barron, right, listens during a Penn State University Board of Trustees meeting on the campus of Penn State Harrisburg in Middletown, Pa., Friday, July 21, 2017. (Chris Knight / AP Photo)
This story originally appeared on StateImpact Pennsylvania.
Penn State President Eric Barron said he’s looking forward to environmental issues getting more attention — and possibly funding — under President-elect Joe Biden’s administration.
He said environmental issues have taken a “back seat” at the national level in recent years — from the government removing some climate change terminology to cuts in funding.
“The lack of having that data available and easy to access and to be able to build upon for your own purposes, or to truly change climate prediction from the simple construct of numerical models to information that can be utilized by society, I view as tragic,”said Barron, who was a geosciences professor.