Environmental Policy & Law

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Bustos co-author of new 2020 Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard

Law Students for Climate Accountability (LSCA), a new student group dedicated to holding the legal industry accountable for its role in the climate crisis, just released the 2020 Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard. The report offers the first comprehensive review of its kind, analyzing the ways in which top law
October 19, 2020
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Cushing and Morello-Frosh publish equity analysis of California's clean vehicle rebate programs

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October 19, 2020
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Zollitsch authors document on new Navigable Waters Protection Act

Brenda Zollitsch, PhD is Senior Policy Analyst for the national nonprofit Association of State Wetland Managers (ASWM). On June 22, 2020 the Trump Administration's new Navigable Waters Protection Act went into effect. This new rule replaces Obama's Clean Water Rule and significantly reduces the waters under federal jurisdiction (known as 'Waters of the United States') across the nation. As states and tribes work to comply with the new rule and assess if they can fill the gaps left with waters now unprotected by EPA and the Corps, Brenda has developed a document to he
July 16, 2020
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Kristin Dobbin

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Kristin (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley focused on water justice policy and planning in California.
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Naomi Beyeler

2020 Fellow
Naomi Beyeler is a PhD candidate in Global Health Sciences at the University of California San Francisco. Her research focuses on climate change and health – looking at how the health sector can both better prepare for and mitigate the...
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Camila Bustos

2020 Fellow
Camila Bustos is an Assistant Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Prior to joining Pace, Professor Bustos was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Rights at Trinity College and a Clinical Supervisor in human...
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Idalmis Vaquero

2020 Fellow
Idalmis is a third-year law student at UCLA School of Law, where she is enrolled in the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. She began advocating on environmental justice issues in her community of East Los Angeles...
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Raven Graf

2020 Fellow
Previously, Raven served Senator Sheldon Whitehouse as a legislative correspondent for climate and energy. They earned their Masters of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. They are interested in the challenges and...
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Demi Espinoza

2020 Fellow
Demi Espinoza (she/they) is the daughter of working class Mexican immigrants and the youngest of ten siblings raised in Riverside, California. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology at California State University San Bernardino and a...
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Brooks finds more protections needed to safeguard biodiversity in the Southern Ocean

Current marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean need to be at least doubled to adequately safeguard the biodiversity of the Antarctic, according to a new CU Boulder study published in April on Earth Day, in the journal PLOS ONE.
June 9, 2020