Environmental Policy & Law

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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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Claudia Diezmartínez

2023 Fellow
Claudia Diezmartínez is the Deputy Director for Policy and Programs at the City of Boston's Environment Department. Claudia holds a PhD in Earth & Environment from Boston University, where she conducted research on urban climate policy, climate finance, and climate justice.
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Ben Clark

2023 Fellow
Ben is an environmental and energy justice lawyer focused on fighting poverty and building sustainable futures in communities burdened by the fossil fuel industry. He is currently an attorney at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, where he represents low-income Philadelphians struggling to afford their utilities.
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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
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Bustos joins faculty at Pace University Law School

Professor Camila Bustos, scholar in environmental law and human rights, is one of four new faculty members joining the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
June 21, 2023
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Law Students for Climate Accountability exposes UK legal industry’s fossil fuel work

New report by Camila Bustos' organization reveals extent of UK law firms’ involvement with fossil fuel companies.
May 17, 2023
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Kaiȧulu: Gathering Tides with Mehana Blaich Vaughan

he InCommon Podcast interviewed Mehana, exploring how she came to write her book Kaiȧulu: Gathering Tides, and the themes and stories the book illuminates.
May 16, 2023
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Kerry Guerin

2022 Fellow
Kerry is the Richmond Staff Attorney at Communities for a Better Environment, an environmental justice non-profit where she works with a refinery fenceline community to reshape it in residents' vision and achieve a Just Transition.
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Milakovsky presents on the impacts of Russia’s war on Ukraine’s forests

The webinar explored how the current war is affecting Ukraine’s forests, the social-environmental history and present day effects of war and climate change on these forest-steppe ecosystems and the people that live there.
April 17, 2023
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Harris co-authors a case for experimental and speculative political ecologies

Abstract: One of political ecology's main strengths is its emphasis on critique, and, through critique, its ability to better understand nature-society relations. Recently, calls have been made from within the sub-discipline – and from the social sciences more broadly – to move beyond critique, to engage nature-society relations more experimentally. Experimental approaches to nature-society relations invite new techniques and methods to study issues as they emerge, as opposed to those that have already happened.
April 17, 2023