{"id":21371,"date":"2023-09-07T21:47:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-news\/?p=21371"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:29:37","slug":"21371","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/2023\/09\/21371\/","title":{"rendered":"Internship at the Center for Energy and Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Regulatory policy, something Georgia Barnes \u201925 calls the \u201cunglamorous side of public policy,\u201d is often misunderstood by the public and overshadowed by the drama and intrigue of legislative politics. This summer, Barnes, through her Chuck Green Fellowship, got to see this side of the policy process. She worked at the Center for Energy and Environment (CEE), a Twin Cities-based sustainable energy nonprofit where she \u201censured that Minnesota&#8217;s gas and electric utilities complied with state and national legislation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"775\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/653\/2023\/12\/20230804_ChuckGreenFellow_Georgia_004_2830x3741-775x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/653\/2023\/12\/20230804_ChuckGreenFellow_Georgia_004_2830x3741-775x1024.jpg 775w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/653\/2023\/12\/20230804_ChuckGreenFellow_Georgia_004_2830x3741-227x300.jpg 227w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/653\/2023\/12\/20230804_ChuckGreenFellow_Georgia_004_2830x3741-768x1015.jpg 768w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/653\/2023\/12\/20230804_ChuckGreenFellow_Georgia_004_2830x3741-1162x1536.jpg 1162w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/653\/2023\/12\/20230804_ChuckGreenFellow_Georgia_004_2830x3741-1549x2048.jpg 1549w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/653\/2023\/12\/20230804_ChuckGreenFellow_Georgia_004_2830x3741-scaled.jpg 1937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A political science and environmental studies double major, Barnes says her time at CEE helped her find impactful work in both areas of study. A typical day included meetings with stakeholders, regulatory research, and a lunchtime run with her boss.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOver our lunch break, my supervisor and I would head down to the locker rooms in our building, change, and head out for a run along the Mississippi,\u201d Barnes says.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In her time at CEE she dug deep on the behind-the-scenes work that goes into ensuring new environmental protection and energy laws are being obeyed and implemented as legislators designed it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis side of policy is critical because no matter what policy is passed, real change will only occur when stakeholders are held accountable,\u201d Barnes said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Barnes monitors Minnesota&#8217;s gas and electric compliance<\/p>","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":21405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","mediatype-articles"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"fields":{"article_type":[8],"flickr_photoset_id":"","youtube_id":"","square_thumbnail":false,"press_photos":false,"story_title":"","story_caption":"","rotations":false,"maps":false,"marker_title":"","marker_text":"","geographic_location":false,"feature_embed":"","custom_link_url":"","news_icon_name":"","image_options":false,"main_feature_story":"","custom_image":false,"custom_feature_title":"","custom_feature_caption":"","custom_markup":"","custom_markup_link":"","custom_markup_title":"","custom_markup_caption":"","byline":"","post_thumbnail_style":"default","press_downloads":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30029,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371\/revisions\/30029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}