Environmental Policy & Law

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Candice Youngblood: fighting for the right to breathe

Green 2.0 recently featured a Q&A with Candice Youngblood on their blog highlighting environmental leaders. Green 2.0 is a nonprofit organization working to ensure that the environmental movement collaborates effectively and equitably to...
July 28, 2025
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Kirk authors report advocating for renters’ right to cooling

A Renters’ Right to Cooling draws on the experiences of tenants in South L.A., an area disproportionately burdened by the effects of climate change and extreme heat, with less tree shade, green space, and other infrastructure investments than other parts of the city.
July 28, 2025
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Herrera joins School of Environment faculty at SFSU

In his new role as Assistant Professor, David is exploring how environmental justice organizations influence local and state policy through the implementation of community organizing and coalition building strategies.
July 28, 2025
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Vera on volunteer effort to save climate data removed by Trump administration

Lourdes Vera spoke to NPR about her work volunteering to preserve climate-related data and tools from agency websites before they are stripped by the Trump administration.
June 30, 2025
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Mulvaney quoted on dismissal of National Climate Assessment authors

In April, “the Trump administration dismissed the hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s flagship report on how global warming is affecting the country,” according to the New York Times. The...
June 30, 2025
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Timothy Onuh

2025 Fellow
Timothy Onuh researches innovative approaches to improve the removal efficiency of nanoparticles (an emerging contaminant) from wastewater systems and promote sustainable water treatment. He strives to integrate his research with policy advocacy, with the overarching goal of practically translating science and engineering principles into socially and environmentally responsible policies.
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Cindy Nguyen

2025 Fellow
Cindy Nguyen is a proud first-generation, Vietnamese-American dedicated to building a more healthy, just, and equitable world for all. Motivated by her experiences observing environmental-health burdens in Vietnamese nail salons, Cindy hopes to use legal tools to both confront the systems driving environmental-health inequities and empower historically overburdened communities to build their own versions of a just future.
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Malika Kounkourou

2025 Fellow
Malika Kounkourou serves as a managing editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review and is a research assistant at the Harvard Environmental and Energy Law Program. Her interests lie at the intersection of alternative dispute resolution systems, corporate accountability, and climate justice, with a focus on extractive industry governance.
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Arrington supports grassroots organizers as staff attorney at Lawyers for Good Government

Alicia Arrington recently joined Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) as a staff attorney working in their environmental justice program. "I'm very excited to be back helping grassroots organizers in the environmental justice space -...
May 12, 2025
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Delborne accepts professorship at UW Madison

Jason Delborne joined the La Follette School of Public Affairs as associate professor of public affairs in Spring 2025.
March 31, 2025