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Red, White & Blue = Green? Parallels Behind U.S. and French Environmental Law
Many view the early 1970s as the dawn of environmental law here in the United States. President Nixon signed NEPA into law on January 1, 1970. By December of that same...
The Enforcement Angle: The New Mexico Environment Department
With its deeply forested mountains, unique rock formations, vast plains, and moonlike deserts, New Mexico—the fifth largest state of the nation—boasts a unique landsca...
National Wetlands Award Feature: Wetlands Watch
ELI’s Georgia Ray speaks with Ross Weaver, the Program Assistant Director for Wetlands Watch, in this first in a series of episodes highlighting the incredible work of...
ELI 2022 Year in Review
John Pendergrass, ELI’s Vice President of Programs and Publications, and Sandy Thiam, Associate Vice President of Research & Policy, share highlights from ELI’s resear...
Ocean Circulation, Science Communication, and Climate Policy — A Conversation with John M. Doherty
ELI’s Georgia Ray speaks with ELI Science Fellow John Doherty about his paleoclimatology research, current climate change policy discussions, and barriers associated w...
The Youth Review: Electric Vehicles and Just Energy Transitions
As more EVs reach the roads, governments will need to address a host of new environmental and social challenges. In this episode, we reflect on the role EV production ...
Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Compliance
ELI’s Georgia Ray speaks with Jed Anderson, the founder of EnviroAI, to discuss the role of AI in environmental compliance. Jed shares how we can leverage the sophisti...
Reimagining the Role of Biogas for Environmental Justice
How can we leverage renewable energy standards to better aid vulnerable communities so that energy systems advance rather than thwart environmental justice? ELI’s Geor...
The Enforcement Angle: INTERPOL’s Pollution Crime Working Group
Justin Savage, a Partner and the Global Co-Leader of the Environmental practice at Sidley Austin LLP, and Nicole Noelliste, a Managing Associate at Sidley Austin LLP, ...
Conversation with Benjamin F. Wilson: 2022 Environmental Achievement Award Winner
ELI’s Georgia Ray sits down with the recipient of this year’s Environmental Achievement Award: Benjamin F. Wilson, an environmental lawyer and civil rights advocate wh...
State Protection of Nonfederal Waters
What happens when federal regulatory changes to the CWA framework result in regulatory “gaps” for the states to resolve? Jim McElfish, a Senior Attorney and Director o...
Environmental Impacts of a Digital Sharing Economy
“Digital sharing services” often promise broad society benefits, including a more environmentally friendly economy. But are these sharing innovations really changing o...
Water Justice and the Constituent Empowerment Model
In “Turning Participation into Power: A Water Justice Case Study,” Prof. Jaime Lee of the University of Baltimore School of Law offers a revamped model of participator...
Independent Research, Aquaculture and Brown Bag Lunches: Insights from ELI's Summer Interns
In this episode of the People Places Planet Podcast, ELI’s six summer interns (Jesse Ferraoili, Rebecca Huang, Fatima Lawan, Priyanka Mahat, Raf Rodriguez, and Jeremy ...
The Youth Review: Environmental Peacebuilding, Conservation, and Nonprofit Cooperation
In this episode of the People Places Planet Podcast, former Research Associate Shehla Chowdhury joins host Georgia Ray to reflect on her time as a research associate, ...
Groundtruth: Implementing New Jersey’s Environmental Justice Law
Julius M. Redd, an attorney at Beveridge & Diamond, speaks with New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn LaTourette to discuss proposed reg...
Groundtruth: Environmental Justice in the International Arena
This episode takes a global look at environmental justice (EJ), including its relationship with human rights and climate justice issues, and what companies can do to a...
ELPAR 2022: Spotlight on Environmental Citizen Suits
For more than a decade, ELI and Vanderbilt University Law School have featured some of the year’s best academic thinking on legal and policy solutions to pressing envi...
The BRIGHT Guide
ELI released The BRIGHT Guide to help communities develop and execute corridor projects in their own neighborhoods to produce positive health, ecological, and economic...
The Enforcement Angle: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Emily Mallen, a partner at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C, talks to Matt Christiansen, FERC’s General Counsel about a variety of topics, including climate change...
El Activismo de los Jóvenes en Puerto Rico
Elissa Torres-Soto, abogada de ELI, habla con tres miembros de Líderes Jóvenes en Acción (Young Leaders in Action) para discutir sus esfuerzos para proteger el futuro ...
Youth Activism in Puerto Rico
Elissa Torres-Soto, a Staff Attorney at ELI, speaks with three members of Líderes Jóvenes en Acción (Young Leaders in Action), to learn about the work they are doing t...
National Wetlands Awards 2022
The winners of the 2022 National Wetlands Awards share their perspectives and insight on a variety of wetlands-related matters.
Groundtruth: 17 Principles of Environmental Justice—30 Years Later
ELI’s Arielle King meets with key organizers and leaders of the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit--Vernice Miller-Travis and Charles Lee—h...
ELI’s Climate Judiciary Project
ELI’s Climate Judiciary Project bridges the gap between the climate science community and the judiciary. Sandy Nichols Thiam, ELI’s Director of Judicial Education, and...
Legal and Policy Issues of Sea Level Rise
While the science of sea level rise is becoming more and more accurate and predictable, and the need to adapt to a changing future more clear, the legal and policy imp...
The Enforcement Angle: Nuts and Bolts of EJSCREEN 2.0
Nicole Noelliste, a managing associate in the environmental practice at Sidley Austin LLP, talk to Matthew Tejada, Director of EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice, a...
Bridges to A New Era: The Past, Present, and Future of Tribal Co-Management on Federal Lands
Linda Breggin, a Senior Attorney at ELI and Director of ELI’s Center for State, Tribal and Local Environmental Programs, talks to Professors Monte Mills and Martin Nie...
Farming for Our Future
Dig into the policies, legal reforms, and actions the United States should take to make the agricultural industry carbon neutral.
Groundtruth: EJ & ESG, Intersected
Stacey Sublett Halliday and Julius Redd of Beveridge & Diamond recap EJ policy developments and talk with Matthew Tejada, Director of EPA’s Office of Environmental Jus...