Formerly DOJ ENRD. Now @Harvard_Law @HarvardEnvClin. Fan of mountains and forests and rivers and seas. The Wisconsin Idea. 🦡
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The Senate's bipartisan permit reform bill would upend the National Environmental Policy Act and also weaken the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act. My legal analysis: scholarship.law.columbia.edu…
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The dam removals that get the most press tend to be superlative western ones, like the Klamath & Elwha—big rivers, big fish. For @bioGraphic, I wrote about the equally vital, under-the-radar projects restoring eastern streams, one old mill dam at a time.
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"The global collapse of migratory shorebird populations is much more than a calamity facing a group of exquisitely evolved birds. It also tells us that our global network of aquatic systems is fraying."
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Ep 117 — Forest Service Proposes to Remove Protections from Roadless Areas by CleanLaw: Harvard Environmental & Energy Law via #soundcloud soundcloud.com/user-99569154…
Our Clinic was thrilled to partner with Ben on comments in defense of the Roadless Rule. I have been working on Roadless issues since the beginning. The Rule made sense 25 years ago and it makes sense today. Tell USFS to preserve the Rule!
This is more activisty than I usually get, but these are weird times.
In collab with Harvard's Env Law & Policy Clinic, I authored a letter objecting to rescission of the #RoadlessRule, made public here so that you can draw upon it in your own comments.
emmettclinic.law.harvard.edu…
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Lord of Life, You have given us the gift of water, source of fruitfulness, freshness, and hope. It quenches thirst, nourishes the earth, and heals wounds. We see with pain so many brothers and sisters who lack clean water, who walk for miles to find it, who become ill due to its scarcity. Forgive us for turning it into a commodity, forgetting that it is a universal gift, a right without borders, meant for all your children. Let’s #PrayTogether at popesprayer.va/praywiththepo…
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I'm writing with love for the landscape and people of Southwest Louisiana who have been designated as the next site for the world’s largest space port at the hands of SpaceX. Some photographs from the state that is so often used as a sacrifice zone for the rest of the US.
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It is with deep concern that I am following the developments in Venezuela. The good of the beloved Venezuelan people must prevail over every other consideration. This must lead to the overcoming of violence, and to the pursuit of paths of justice and peace. I pray for all this, and I invite you to pray too, entrusting our prayer to the intercession of Our Lady of Coromoto, and to Saints José Gregorio Hernández and Carmen Rendiles. #PrayTogether
He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go. nytimes.com/2025/10/31/clima… via @NYTimes
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"This isn’t just another regulatory rollback. It’s an assault on the foundation of all federal climate policy," writes @JodyFreemanHLS, director of @HarvardEELP, in the @latimes.
Read the op-ed:
latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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Scoop: EPA is preparing to cancel $7 billion in grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels. nytimes.com/2025/08/05/clima…
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When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:
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Here we go: The Acting Solicitor General has asked #SCOTUS to immediately freeze (and vacate) the district court order that had temporarily reinstated Hampton Dellinger atop DOJ’s Office of Special Counsel:
utexas.box.com/s/h0m91y7nesd…
Much more on this in tomorrow’s “One First.”
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It’s not a “buyout”. Media keeps calling it a “buyout” but that’s not the offer. Their offer is to get public servants to agree now to resign in the fall, but they keep working full time virtually & get paid for the work. That’s not a “buyout”. I can think of another word though.
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New research: Even healthy people cannot survive the extreme heat beginning to afflict large regions of the world, writes climate scientist Kaighin McColl, explaining his new research into uncompensable heat stress.
Read the Harvard Climate Blog: bit.ly/3ZB8f9w
ALT A photo of sun over agricultural field. Text: Harvard Climate Blog. New Blog Post. How future heat may kill millions of healthy people. Even healthy people cannot survive the extreme heat beginning to affect large regions of the world, writes climate scientists Kaighin McColl, explaining his new research into uncompensable heat stress.
This is a fantastic piece. Highly recommend.
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Today, @Interior and @USDA announced a final rule to strengthen Alaska Tribal representation on the Federal Subsistence Board, which manages subsistence use on federal lands and waters in Alaska.
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"There it is. Take it." @throughlineNPR examines the history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and the legacy of William Mulholland's big dream: npr.org/2024/08/29/119890914…
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Congrats to our fearless leader for making The Grist 50: @AmyCordalis. grist.org/fix/grist-50/2024/… #Grist50 via @grist
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In June 2022, ~400 people fell ill from consuming tara flour, a food ingredient used without FDA review. Why was this allowed? My perspective with Pieter Cohen in NEJM talks about tara flour, the "GRAS" exception to food safety, & what to do nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
