Environmental Policy & Law

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Sparti selected for California's Truth and Healing Council Education Subcommittee

Chelsi Sparti has been selected to join the Education Subcommittee of the California Truth & Healing Council. The Council “bears witness to, records, examines existing documentation of, and receives California Native American narratives...
July 26, 2023
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Scheuer appointed to East Maui Water Board amid fiercely political process

The Maui County Council has confirmed Jonathan Likeke Scheuer to represent the Hawaiian Homes Commission on the board steering the new East Maui Community Water Authority, marking the council’s final action in a heated monthslong process to get it up and running.
July 26, 2023
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Delborne named 2023-24 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow

Jason’s fellowship is with the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, which conducts public engagement and supports the interagency nanotechnology community.
July 26, 2023
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Wes Gobar

2023 Fellow
A climate and racial justice organizer, Wes is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Black environmental networking & career development organization BlackOak Collective, and co-founder of Evergreen Action.
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Patrick Houston

2023 Fellow
Patrick is an organizer and activist whose studies are focused on energy grid and building decarbonization, and community wealth building in low-income and working communities of color.
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Itzel Vasquez-Rodriguez

2023 Fellow
Itzel is passionate about water justice policy and ensuring all Californians have access to safe and affordable drinking water. She has a background in legislation, research, non-profit work, and advocacy in communities of color and Indigenous communities.
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Claudia Diezmartínez

2023 Fellow
Claudia studies how cities across the United States are designing, financing, and implementing policies that serve not only to mitigate or adapt to climate change, but also to improve social justice in urban communities.
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Dyanna Jaye

2023 Fellow
Dyanna is studying policies to guide long-haul economic transition pathways to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. Before graduate school, Dyanna organized with grassroots movements to design and win climate policy for over a decade.
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Ben Clark

2023 Fellow
An aspiring movement lawyer, Ben is focused on advancing environmental justice, alleviating poverty, and defending workers’ rights in communities burdened by the fossil fuel industry.
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Scheuer quoted on failed legislative attempt to circumvent HI Land Use Commission

Jonathan Likeke Scheuer hopes that the conversation will now move to a “much more productive place” that considered “actual barriers” to affordable housing rather targeting the LUC’s oversight.
June 22, 2023