Environmental Policy & Law

Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Erika Zavaleta, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz and a Switzer Fellow, to the California Fish and Game Commission.

Camila Bustos is part of an expert group from Harvard, Yale, and the University Network for Human Rights calling on Biden administration to revise immigration and climate policy to afford protections to those fleeing devastating climate change impacts in Central America.

Sarah Smith's op-ed in The Hill urges the Biden administration to adopt strong methane standards in the United States' new Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement.

Anne Perrault's op-ed in the Hill argues for a bold reimagining of financial risk and responsibility in the era of climate change. Imperiled cities, mounting costs: Facing the big climate risk blindspot

University of Rhode Island (URI) Professor Laura Meyerson has been elected a fellow of the Ecological Society of America for her contributions to ecological research and policy. Meyerson has been studying invasive species since 1995 and has been a leading advocate for addressing invasive species as a national biosecurity issue since joining the URI faculty in 2005.

Late last year, Princeton researchers released a major study modeling different ways the U.S. could reduce its net emissions to zero by 2050 — a target that has been advanced by scientists, and countries around the world, as our best hope for limiting the worst effects of climate change.

In November 2020 Environmental Health News annouced their second round of Agents of Change in Environmental Health fellows, which includes Regan Patterson, a Transportation Equity Research Fellow at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. From the EHN website: Amplifying voices of next generation environmental health and justice leaders has grown in relevance and urgency as we face a public health pandemic, economic collapse, racial injustice, and increasing effects of climate change.

During Candice Youngblood's final year at Berkeley Law, she pitched and organized a 200+ attendee environmental justice symposium to increase environmental justice scholarship and discourse within the environmental legal field. The symposium, called Ground-Truthing Injustice, was held on February 8, 2019. She organized the symposium as a leader for the student organization Students for Economic and Environmental Justice (SEEJ). The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment helped host the event.

Evan Hansen has won reelection from Monongalia County to the West Virginia House of Delegates. Read more