Environmental Policy & Law

“Climate change is the defining challenge of our time, and we have the tools we have to address the challenge, including litigation, storytelling, and organizing,” Bustos said. “Law schools have an important role, because the law can be a barrier or a leverage point to help movements. There are opportunities and challenges ahead.”

“Including ports in this bonus tax credit will revitalize hard working communities that have long been engines of economic growth,” Grumet said. “The Administration’s action is yet another example of the economic opportunities created by the clean energy transition.”

Several Switzer Fellows are presenting at the 2024 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting taking place in Honolulu Hawai’i from April 16-20, 2024. Fellows’ presentations are on an array of diverse topics: climate...

Camila Bustos worked with the International Refugee Assistance Project and nine other nonprofit organizations who engage in climate action and migrant and refugee advocacy to create a “legal action agenda that sets concrete steps to ensure...

Martha Matsuoka’s new, open-access book shows how community-engaged research contributes to environmental justice by centering local knowledge, building truth from the ground up, producing data that can influence decisions, and transforming researchers’ relationships to communities for equity and mutual benefit.

Suiseeya has devoted her professional academic life to investigating the justice dimensions of environmental governance, principally how different policies and approaches to addressing issues like biodiversity loss and climate change impact people and communities.

In advance of this year's UN climate summit, NPR interviewed Switzer Fellow Kelly Sims Gallagher, an environment and resource policy expert and dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University about her expectations for the COP28. Highlights...

Dustin Mulvaney testified before the House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Energy and Minerals on September 13 to advocate for a public policy framework that “brings together both the need for new responsible critical minerals...

Recently named a 2023 Switzer Environmental Fellow, Gobar says he hopes to connect the growing BlackOak Collective talent network to the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation.