Environmental Policy & Law

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Lindsey Stuvick

2012 Fellow
Lindsey manages the Water Efficiency Department at Moulton Niguel Water District and serves on the Board of Directors for the California Water Efficiency Partnership and as the Chair of the Data Action Team for the California Data...
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Aga Pinette

2012 Fellow
Aga Pinette is an attorney at Drummond Woodsum in Portland, Maine, focusing her practice on public finance and land use matters. After completing her law degree at the University of Maine School of Law in May 2012, Aga served as a law clerk...
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Angel Hsu

2012 Fellow
Dr Angel Hsu is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Yale-NUS College and Adjunct of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She is Director of the Yale Data-driven Environmental Solutions Group and Principal...
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Stephanie Safdi

2012 Fellow
Stephanie Safdi practices environmental, land use law, and energy law with the public interest law firm Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, LLP in San Francisco, CA. Prior to entering private practice, Stephanie was a law clerk on the Ninth Circuit...
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Esther Conrad

2012 Fellow
A 2012 Switzer Fellow, Esther is deeply invested in policy-relevant research and partnerships to address critical sustainability challenges, especially in the context of water and climate change, and environmental justice. Currently, she works at Stanford University's Bill Lane Center for the American West, where she manages research projects in collaboration with government entities focused on groundwater governance, California's transition to zero emission vehicles, and policies to reduce wildfire risk.
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Reed Schuler

2012 Fellow
Reed Schuler is the Managing Director for Implementation and Ambition and Senior Advisor to U.S. Special Presidential Envoy John Kerry, directing efforts to accelerate decarbonization by major economies and managing bilateral engagement...
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Leah Butler

2012 Fellow
Leah began her environmental career in federal service at U.S. EPA’s Superfund Division Region 9, starting in 2006. In this role, Leah managed the investigation and cleanup of hazardous waste sites in Arizona and on Hopi and Navajo tribal...
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Moir posts about the National Ocean Policy and recent controversy over funding

The necessity of a top-down National Ocean Policy is that it instructs managers to work in collaboration across managerial boundaries. The wonder of the National Ocean Policy was for leadership of the Interior (the National Park Service), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Coast Guard and the Navy to announce that they would work together across institutional boundaries, share resources, reduce redundancies, and develop more robust solutions for responsible ocean stewardship.
June 1, 2012
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Sims Gallagher op-ed calls administration's preliminary tariff on Chinese solar panels "short sighted"

The Obama Administration’s preliminary decision to impose a 31 per cent tariff on solar panels imported from China is short sighted. The move could cause a trade war, hurt the US economy, jeopardize US security interests, and put the world further off course in terms of meeting its global climate change goals.
June 1, 2012