Environmental Policy & Law

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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

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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
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John J. Berger: A National Climate Action Plan

Why we need it and how to do it.
August 26, 2024
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Hameed co-authors report finding ocean protection quality lags behind quantity

"What a tragedy it will be if the global community comes together and achieves 30x30 by covering 30% of the ocean in MPAs that don’t have strong enough regulations to safeguard marine ecosystems or are otherwise ineffective. We have to do better to conserve the biodiversity of our ocean – we need to ensure that our MPA efforts are meaningful.”
August 26, 2024
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Bando and Jensen comment on Biden’s National Monument Expansions

This is an important day for native plant lovers,” said CNPS Conservation Program Director Dr. Nick Jensen, who helped lead the multi-year campaign to protect Molok Luyuk. “Conservation is long, hard work, and we should savor this moment, not just for ourselves, but for those whose footsteps we follow.”
August 26, 2024