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The Clinic and the HLS Environmental Law Society to host Julia Olson from Our Children’s Trust on Oct. 23

Lunch Talk with Julia Olson of Our Children’s Trust Wednesday, October 23rd from 12pm-1pm Environmental Law & Policy Clinic, WCC 5116 Join us in welcoming Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel of Our Children’s Trust.  She is the lead attorney in Juliana…
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Deputy Director Shaun Goho Presents at Citizen Science Webinars

September 27 – Today, Deputy Director Shaun Goho participated in the Introducing the CSA Law and Policy Working Group and its new Legal Question Submission Tool webinar, which was presented by the Citizen Science Association (CSA).  The webinar announced the creation of a tool through which the citizen scientist community…
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Clinic Files Amicus Briefs in Two Cases Challenging EPA’s Scientific Advisory Committees Directive

August 22, 2019 – In the summer of 2019, the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic filed amicus briefs in the First Circuit and D.C. Circuit in two cases challenging former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s directive to exclude scientists who hold EPA research grants from serving on the agency’s scientific…
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Clinic Submits Written Statement to Science Advisory Board on EPA’s Proposed “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” Rule

August 20, 2019 – Today, the Clinic submitted a written statement on behalf of 32 concerned medical and public health experts, scientists, researchers, and clinicians to urge the Science Advisory Board (“SAB”) to conduct a full review of the EPA’s proposal “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science”.  The Clinic emphasized that…
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Clinic Files Clean Water Act Brief on Behalf of Former EPA Officials in U.S. Supreme Court

Maui County Hawaii, wastewater treatment facilities at issue in Supreme Court litigation. Warren Gretz NREL UPDATE: On April 23, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that point source discharges that pass through groundwater before reaching navigable waters can be regulated under the Clean Water Act, rejecting the tests…
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Climate Solutions Living Lab Featured in National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Spring Newsletter

June 4, 2019 – The Climate Solutions Living Lab, taught by Clinic Director Wendy Jacobs, was featured today in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS) Spring 2019 Update.  Toby Warden, Director of the BECS, had attended the Living Lab student…
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Clinic Submits Comments on EPA’s Proposed IRIS Assessment Plan for Methylmercury

May 6, 2019 – The Clinic submitted comments today on behalf of a group of leading scientists on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Assessment Plan for methylmercury. The Clinic submitted the comments on behalf of Philippe Grandjean, Elsie M. Sunderland, David C. Bellinger,…
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Emmett Clinic Files Comments Opposing EPA’s Proposal to Undermine Mercury Standards for Coal-fired Power Plants

April 17, 2019 –The Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic submitted comments today on behalf of a group of leading scientists in opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to rescind the finding underlying its regulation of mercury and other toxic air pollutant emissions from coal-fired power plants. …
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Emmett Clinic Submits Comments Opposing Trump Administration’s Proposal to Weaken Clean Water Act Protections

April 12, 2019 – The Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic submitted comments today in opposition to the Trump Administration’s proposal to revise the definition of “Waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act.  This proposal, if finalized, will dramatically reduce the number of streams and wetlands…
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Clinic Paper Supports Use of Ratepayer Funds to Replace Lead Service Lines

April 2, 2019 – The Clinic is releasing a paper analyzing the authority of water utilities in thirteen key states to use ratepayer funds to pay for full lead service line (LSL) replacement. The paper, “Rates Could Fund Lead Pipe Replacement in Critical States,” is the product of…
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Clinic Submits Comments on Proposed Rollback of GHG Standards for New Power Plants

March 18, 2019 – The Clinic submitted comments today in opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to roll back greenhouse gas emissions standards for new power plants. For more than a decade, the Clinic has been researching and analyzing the technical and legal issues associated with the development…
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Clinic Files Brief from Medical and Public Health Experts in Youth Climate Case

March 1, 2019 – Today, the Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of a group of public health experts, public health organizations, and doctors in Juliana v. United States, the landmark climate case brought by a group of youths against the federal government.  The Juliana plaintiffs allege that the…
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Emmett Clinic Files Amicus Briefs on Behalf of Local Elected Officials in Support of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante

November 19, 2018 – The Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic filed amicus briefs today in support of lawsuits challenging President Trump’s shrinking of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.  The Clinic filed the briefs on behalf of 21 local elected officials from Utah, led by Salt Lake…
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Emmett Clinic Files Comments on EPA’s Proposal to Repeal the Clean Power Plan

October 31, 2018 – The Clinic submitted comments on EPA’s proposal to repeal the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan and replace it with the “Affordable Clean Energy” rule (the “Proposal”), which would significantly weaken the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal and natural gas fired power plants.  The…
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Emmett Clinic Files Comments Opposing EPA and NHTSA’s Proposed Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient Vehicles Rule

October 26, 2018 – Today, the Emmett Clinic submitted comments opposing the Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Transportation Safety Administration’s Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient Vehicles Rule.  This rule would freeze greenhouse gas emission and fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks, thereby undermining one of the main pillars of…
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Clinic Director Jacobs Participates in Oct. 19th HSPH Forum, Conflicts Over Science and Policy at the EPA: Where Are We Headed?

On October 19, 2018, Clinic Director Wendy Jacobs participated in a panel discussion at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) Forum, Conflicts Over Science and Policy at the EPA:  Where Are We Headed? The panel discussion looked at the status of evidence-based environmental…
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Emmett Clinic Files Comments on Behalf of Environmental Clinics Opposing EPA’s Proposed “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” Rule

August 15, 2018 – The Emmett Clinic filed a second set of comments today opposing EPA’s proposal to “Strengthen Transparency in Regulatory Science” on behalf of itself and other environmental clinics across the country, urging EPA to withdraw the proposed rule both because it is procedurally deficient and beyond the…
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Emmett Clinic Files Amicus Briefs in Cases Challenging EPA Science Advisory Board Directive

August 14, 2018 – This summer, the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic has filed amicus briefs in two cases challenging former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s directive to exclude scientists who hold EPA research grants from serving on the agency’s science advisory committees.  The Clinic’s briefs, filed on…
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Victory in Chlorpyrifos Case in which Clinic Submitted Amicus Brief

August 9, 2018 – Earlier this year, the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic submitted an amicus brief on behalf of several health professional organizations in a case challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to ban agricultural uses of the organophosphate pesticide chlorpyrifos.  Today, in a victory for public health…
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Emmett Clinic Files Comments Opposing EPA’s Proposed “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” Rule

The Emmett Clinic just filed comments opposing EPA’s proposal to “Strengthen Transparency in Regulatory Science” on behalf of nearly 100 leaders in science and medicine from Harvard University.  The proposed rule would bar EPA from relying on key peer-reviewed scientific and medical studies and would cripple EPA’s ability to…