Our Clinic and students were pleased to partner with Ben on a robust defense of the Roadless Rule. I have been around these issues for 25 years and we need this rule now more than ever!

Ben Goldfarb@bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is more activisty than I usually get, but these are weird times. In collab w/ Harvard's Env Law & Policy Clinic, I authored a letter objecting to Roadless Rule's rescission, made public so that you can draw upon it in your own comments. Have at it! emmettclinic.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...

Now extended to Oct 6! But still urgent.

@mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 3w ago

Those who wish to submit a comment on the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule should search Docket# FS-2025-0001 at regulations.gov The deadline is September 21, 2026.

“Felling a tree is not a take of the bats roosting in it unless the tree is felled for the purpose of killing or capturing them.” The @USFWS's new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, as revealed by Nesvik's memo, is the perfect blend of evil and stupidity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...

Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

nytimes.com

Anybody know a Dire/Doodle breeder?

Government lawyers thinking about the legal academy. Please join us on March 20.

Sara A. Colangelo @sara-colangelo.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨Zoom session w/ former #DOJ ENRD & #EPA attorneys on TRANSITION FROM GOV SERVICE TO ACADEMIA 3/20 8pmET! Hear about teaching roles at law schools (clinical, podium, others); hiring processes/timing; & more! Come for the info, stay for the camaraderie! Register tinyurl.com/3esf7a2h #fedjobs #fedcuts

My clinic is hiring a new fellow! Come work with my excellent colleagues @andrewmergen.bsky.social, @sengels.bsky.social, and @shannonenelson.bsky.social on climate, environmental, and natural resources law issues. Posting: clinics.law.harvard.edu/environment/...

On our 100th CleanLaw 🎧, @jodyfreeman.bsky.social talks with Richard Lazarus, @andrewmergen.bsky.social, and Carrie Jenks about the Trump administration’s actions to date on energy & the environment and why the practice and study of law matter now more than ever. eelp.law.harvard.edu/cleanlaw-tru...

The Trump administration’s rules for how White House staff can interact with the Justice Department is a departure from Biden-era guidance, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.

Trump White House says it can talk to Justice Dept. on criminal cases

Compared to guidance from the first Trump administration, the memo specifies that the president can discuss any types of cases with the attorney general.

washingtonpost.com

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...

NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA

Lee esta historia en español aquí

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legal-planet.org/2025/02/04/c...

Crisis at DOJ’s Environment & Natural Resources Division - Legal Planet

Dismantling ENRD will be disastrous for future administrations, the American people, and even for the Trump Administration.

legal-planet.org

Come work with us and our amazing students.

Rosa@rosahayes.bsky.social · 2y ago

My clinic is hiring a new fellow! Come work with my excellent colleagues @andrewmergen.bsky.social, @sengels.bsky.social, and @shannonenelson.bsky.social on climate, environmental, and natural resources law issues. Posting: clinics.law.harvard.edu/environment/...

I do not have any words adequate to describe my outrage.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2y ago

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

Grateful for this discussion with Isaac Chotiner at the New Yorker on the significance of the Trump EOs. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

How Donald Trump Is Transforming Executive Power

A flurry of seemingly illegal orders and firings could tee up the Supreme Court to cement a vast expansion of Presidential authority.

newyorker.com

SEJ has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation to strengthen climate journalism across North America! This grant is part of MacArthur’s $6 million investment in independent newsrooms and organizations dedicated to environmental reporting. www.macfound.org/press/press-...

More than $6 Million in Support of Climate Journalism

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Great job!

Robin Just@robinjust.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're hiring! Come join one of the best US policy shops around. Sr. attorney wanted to help federal agencies respond to SCOTUS decisions related to admin law, including the major questions doctrine and Loper Bright. There's lots to be done. eelp.law.harvard.edu/work-with-us...

in August, i went to two meetings in Iowa—one headed by the Sierra Club, one emceed by disgraced congressman Steve King—both in opposition to the same project: a proposed carbon-capture pipeline. for Drilled, my longread on the pipeline & what it says about the future of climate politics:

Unrest in Carbon Country

How agricultural interests are teaming up with big oil to take advantage of tax credits meant to fight climate change—and what the backlash can tell us about the future of climate politics.

drilled.media

The DC Circuit will hear argument in an important Clean Air Act case on Friday.

Salata Institute@harvardsalata.bsky.social · 2y ago

Can the federal government require power plants to capture carbon emissions and other pollutants? Andrew Mergen of Harvard Law School, a former appellate attorney at the Justice Department’s environmental division, unpacks what will be a landmark ruling: salatainstitute.harvard.edu/fossil-power...

#EPA just announced a new draft framework on #cumulativeimpacts "based on the best available science on how pollution and other burdens interact to affect individuals’ and communities’ health and well-being." Available for public comment til 2/19/25 www.epa.gov/newsreleases... #environmentaljustice

EPA Announces New Draft Framework to Advance Consideration of Cumulative Impacts on Communities | US EPA

EPA News Release: EPA Announces New Draft Framework to Advance Consideration of Cumulative Impacts on Communities

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I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever. #books #reading #booksky #poetry

Important new study shows that current climate models underestimate the human-caused slowing of the #AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), because they neglect freshwater influx from Greenland melt and other sources. /1 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation driven by subarctic freshening since the mid-twentieth century - Nature Geoscience

Fresh meltwater entering the Labrador and Irminger seas has resulted in a slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation since the 1950s, according to a combination of modelling approaches...

nature.com

Honored that this essay for Outside magazine won gold at this year's Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. Thanks to then editor Alex Heard for the assignment. www.outsideonline.com/culture/essa...

Mississippi Delta: Returning Home to Its Haunted Past

A Black southerner who grew up during the dying years of Jim Crow journeyed north as a young man to pursue life as a writer and scholar. Fate brought him back, and he fell in love with a troubled part...

outsideonline.com

NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found. www.propublica.org/article/segr...

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars

North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...

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