CEQ also planning to issue a Notice by July on how fed. agencies should consider greenhouse gas emissions/climate change under NEPA 👀 reginfo.gov/public/do/eAge…

I met an unhoused woman who has two years of disability payments sitting in a bank account she cannot access because she does not have an ID. After months we finally got her birth certificate and then she woke up to a sweep where all of her paperwork was thrown away.

This past week has seen a repudiation of the court-based theory of change that has defined legal liberalism for several decades in the US: a theory that elite lawyers will always be able to use elite reasoning to persuade elite judges not to let things get out of hand.

States are setting the example on #EJ, but #NY's new constitutional provision guaranteeing clean water, clean air and a healthful environment may be weakend in court. A crucial take from Bratspies and Katrina Kuh in Bloomberg Law.

Yes.

A great🧵from Conservation Law Foundation Staci Rubin and @cpealesloan on what's good and what's missing on #EnvironmentalJustice in MA's new Clean Energy and Climate Plan

A mic drop moment if there ever was one... @FERC meets #Fiddler

A great thread from Earthjustice's Marvin Brown on the practical realities of having homeowners switch over HVAC systems to #heatpumps. Thanks for sharing!!

Yesterday, investor-owned utilities in PJM alleged that a comment I filed at FERC was “defamatory.” They don’t explain further. Their overreaction highlights an odd dynamic that I see often in utility regulation.

Meanwhile in #PuertoRico, 230,000 out of 1.47 million households remain without power ... 12 days after #Fiona made landfall

We’re announcing two new online tools that provide the public with info on environmental enforcement and compliance in their communities! With improved transparency and technology, these tools empower the public to help EPA assure compliance nationwide. 🧵

First: I’m pardoning all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession. There are thousands of people who were previously convicted of simple possession who may be denied employment, housing, or educational opportunities as a result. My pardon will remove this burden.

Excited to share HLS Environmental & Energy Law Program's latest CleanLaw #podcast episode where Prof @RBratspies at CUNY School of Law and I discuss New York's latest effots to legislate #environmentaljustice. eelp.law.harvard.edu/2022/10/cleanl…

New report from the HLS Environmental & Energy Law Program team taking stock of the Biden admin's progress so far on everything from air rules to #EJ to resilience.

Many thanks to Tom Frank for reporting on Census numbers suggesting "unbelievable" rates of disaster displacement in the US. While data are "experimental", they illustrate for @FEMA, state govts who is most vulnerable to the impacts of disasters.

We've updated our analysis of the Biden DOJ's third party-payment policy to include a 2020 memo (acquired via FOIA) in which the Trump DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel affirmed that "certain payments to third parties" are allowed under the Misc. Receipts Act. eelp.law.harvard.edu/2022/06/doj-re…