Environmental Policy & Law

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Aldy on papal encyclical, policy implications

During his two years leading the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis has washed the feet of inmates, proposed larger roles for women in the church, and famously shifted the institutional tone toward gay acceptance, saying, “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”
June 30, 2015
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Protecting the character and biodiversity of the Sierra Nevada region - Year Two

Sierra Watch received $15,000 for a second year of funding to support Isaac Silverman’s position as Staff Attorney. This position was created in 2014 with help from a $40,000 Switzer Leadership Grant. In this second year, Isaac will be...
June 23, 2015
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Cassandra Brooks

2015 Fellow
Cassandra Brooks is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She draws on a diversity of disciplines including marine science, environmental policy, and science communication to study and seek...
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Heather Kryczka

2015 Fellow
Heather is a legal fellow at NRDC on the air pollution & environmental justice team in Santa Monica, CA. She earned her JD at Stanford Law School in 2016. She has worked on litigation to strengthen air and water quality regulations, and to...
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Alicia Harley

2015 Fellow
I am a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a lecturer in Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard College. I received my PhD in Public Policy from...
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Ariana Spawn

2015 Fellow
Ariana is the Regulatory Affairs Lead for Ocean Policy at Orsted, where she is supporting the development of responsibly-sited offshore wind in the U.S. Atlantic. Prior to this role, she advised Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) on climate and...
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Joshua Stoll

2015 Fellow
Joshua is an assistant professor of marine policy in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine. His research focuses on the human dimensions of marine systems and how social-ecological dynamics shape and are shaped by formal...
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Jasmine Hyman

2015 Fellow
Jasmine Hyman has over fifteen years of experience in climate-compatible development and green finance. Her work at E Co. specialized in project formulation, research surveys, monitoring, evaluation for environmental agencies and...
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Squaw Valley looks to neighbor for water security, Silverman quoted

The Board of Directors of Squaw Valley's primary water provider yesterday reaffirmed its intent to solve its local problems with water imports from Martis Valley. In a 4-1 vote, the Squaw Valley Public Services District (SVPSD) directed staff to “...define a preferred water supply alternative from Martis Valley” as a “redundant water supply” and to identify sites for wells and a pumping station in Martis Valley, a pipeline corridor, and terminal storage tanks in Squaw Valley.
April 13, 2015
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Hansen quoted in Wall Street Journal on roll back of West Virginia's storage tank rules

From The Wall Street Journal: West Virginia lawmakers approved a measure on Saturday to roll back strict water-protection rules enacted last year after a chemical spill contaminated drinking water for 300,000 people in West Virginia’s capital. ... Environmental groups fought the measure. "It reduces the regulation of tens of thousands of above-ground storage tanks, some of which have the potential to contaminate drinking water," said Evan Hansen, president of Downstream Strategies, an environmental consulting company based in Morgantown, W.Va.
April 2, 2015