Megan Mullin, faculty director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation was a guest on the UCLA Daily Bruin podcast “Bruin to Bruin.” The episode focused on the growing polarization in environmental politics, the aftermath of the 2025 Los Angeles County fires and the UCLA Luskin professor of public policy’s work and journey as an environmental researcher. The UCLA Luskin Endowed Chair in Innovation and Sustainability was asked about the shift in attitudes about environmental protection between political parties in the U.S. “We all care about clean water, we all care about clean air, and if you put it to the test, we all want a climate that’s livable for human populations. How we get there becomes the real challenge,” said Mullin, who also is leading a UCLA team tasked with developing policy recommendations to help Los Angeles recover from the 2025 wildfires. “It’s been a 30-year trajectory of division.”