May 16, 2024 – We’re excited to announce a new $15 million gift to establish the Emmett Environmental Law Center at Harvard Law School. This gift by alumnus Dan Emmett ’64 and the Emmett Foundation will bolster the work of the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic and the Environmental…
The Clinic is co-sponsoring a March 24th webinar event organized by the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program (HRP) entitled Fighting Climate Change with Human Rights Law – Advantages and Disadvantages. The webinar will explore both the strengths and the weaknesses of human rights law as a vehicle…
November 3, 2021 – Emmett Clinic Staff Attorney Aladdine Joroff testified yesterday before the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy in support of H.3298, An Act relative to the Future of Heat in the Commonwealth. Click here to view the bill.
Photo Credit: Connecticut Green Bank October 19, 2021 – The Clinic is supporting efforts by the Post Road Foundation and its collaborators who have recently been awarded a grant to integrate distributed energy resources under the Department of Energy’s recently announced Connected Communities Program. Post Road, the…
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…
The conversation with Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland, and Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow from the Climate Change Displacement: Finding Solutions to an Emerging Crisis conference was featured in the October 21st edition of The Harvard Crimson. Mrs. Robinson and Dean Minow discussed the topics of climate…
The Clinic, along with the International Human Rights Clinic and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, is hosting a conference on Climate Change Displacement: Finding Solutions to an Emerging Crisis, on October 20-21, 2016. The conference will examine the challenges of climate change, human rights, and displacement, and efforts…
Clinic Director Wendy Jacobs was featured in an October 6, 2016 article in the Harvard Gazette on the University’s Living Lab Initiatives. Professor Jacobs will be leading the Climate Solutions Living Lab Course and Research Project, which is designed to bring together students from across the university in interdisciplinary teams…
The Clinic, along with the Immigration and Refugee Program and the International Human Rights Clinic, welcomes you to join us for a conversation with Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and current UN Special Envoy on El Nino and Climate, and Dean Minow on October 20th; as well as a…
The Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic submitted comments today on the Department of the Interior’s (“DOI”) proposed regulations for offshore exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic. The Emmett Clinic supported the agency’s proposals to require that operators maintain a secondary drill rig in the Arctic to respond to…
