Commercial fishing boats are berthed at the harbor in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Editorial credit: James Kirkikis / Shutterstock.com August 23, 2023 – Clinic Faculty Director Andrew Mergen spoke with Harvard Law professor and Environmental & Energy Law Program (EELP) founding director Jody Freeman on a CleanLaw Podcast episode…
July 7, 2023 – Clinic Faculty Director Andrew Mergen is featured in Inside Climate News discussing how the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent affirmative action ruling could complicate environmental justice initiatives, specifically the Biden Administration’s Justice40 initiative. The Justice40 initiative “directs federal agencies to deliver 40 percent of the ‘overall benefits’…
January 3, 2023 – The Clinic welcomes Andrew Mergen as a Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic. Prior to joining the Harvard Law School, Andrew Mergen served in the Appellate Section of the Environment & Natural Resources Division…
Credit: iStock/kamilpetran February 28, 2022 – Acting Director Shaun Goho is featured in Harvard Law Today discussing West Virginia v. EPA, which is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court and is scheduled for oral argument today. The question before the Court in this case is whether the Environmental Protection Agency…
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: iStock/DrAfter123 September 15, 2021 – The Clinic’s various efforts to assist Massachusetts cities and towns with reaching their decarbonization goals was featured in Harvard Law Today. Staff Attorney Aladdine Joroff discussed several examples of the Clinic’s work, including a white paper, draft model law, and proposed ordinance…
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…
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…
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…
Clinic Director Wendy Jacobs will be moderating a panel discussion on Implementing Cobenefits at the Capturing the Carbon Dividend: The Health Benefits of Climate Mitigation Symposium on Tuesday, December 13, 2016. The symposium will take place at the Law School in Wasserstein Hall, 2019 Milstein West AB from 9:00am-1:00pm. To…
