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Clinic Faculty Director Andrew Mergen discusses EJ implications of SCOTUS affirmative action ruling in Inside Climate News

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’…

July 07, 2023

Welcome to the Clinic’s New Faculty Director Andrew Mergen

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…

January 03, 2023

Emmett Clinic Publishes Paper on how the Massachusetts EFSB Can Integrate Environmental Justice into its Review Process

Image: Mystic Generating Station in Everett, Massachusetts. Credit: Fletcher6 / Creative Commons July 2022 – The Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic published Opportunities for the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board to Advance Environmental Justice, which explores how the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) can or…

July 15, 2022

Emmett Clinic and Native American Rights Fund Publish Guidebook for Alaska Natives to Put Land in Trust

July 13, 2022—Today, the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic and Native American Rights Fund (“NARF”) published Putting Land in Trust: A Guidebook for Alaska Native Tribes and Individuals, which informs and guides Alaska Natives about the process of applying to have their privately held land converted to land…

July 13, 2022

Emmett Clinic Files Amicus Brief in Case Challenging EPA’s Approval of the Herbicide Paraquat

June 1, 2022 – The Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic submitted an amicus brief today on behalf of three leading experts supporting a challenge to an action by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) involving the toxic herbicide paraquat dichloride (often simply called “paraquat”). Specifically, EPA approved paraquat’s use…

June 01, 2022

Emmett Clinic Files Comments Supporting EPA’s Proposal to Reaffirm Mercury Standards for Coal-fired Power Plants

April 11, 2022 – The Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic submitted comments today on behalf of a group of leading scientists supporting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to reaffirm earlier findings underlying the agency’s regulation of mercury and other toxic air pollutant emissions from coal-fired power plants. The…

April 11, 2022

Clinic Submits Comments on Massachusetts DOER’s Net Zero Stretch Code

March 18, 2022 – Today, the Clinic submitted comments on the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources’ Straw Proposal for Stretch Code Update and New Specialized Stretch Code. The comments highlight opportunities to preserve municipal flexibility to address climate change and minimize compliance burdens for municipalities and building owners. The comments…

March 18, 2022

Emmett Clinic Submits Comments on Biden Administration’s Proposal to Restore Clean Water Act Protections

February 8, 2022 – The Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic submitted comments yesterday on the Biden Administration’s proposal to revise the definition of “the waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. That definition determines the scope of a wide range of the Act’s programs to safeguard…

February 08, 2022

Clinic Submits Comments in Support of Proposed Changes to National Environmental Policy Act Regulations

November 22, 2021 – Today, the Clinic submitted comments to the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) supporting its proposed partial reversal of the Trump administration’s weakening of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing regulations. The Clinic’s comments argue that agencies are required under NEPA to examine cumulative and indirect…

November 22, 2021

Clinic testifies in support of An Act relative to the Future of Heat in the Commonwealth

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.

November 03, 2021

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