Tag: Environmental Law and Policy Program

  • Nation & World

    How inflation act may help rescue greenhouse-gas goals of repealed Clean Power Plan

    In the wake of the demise of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, the Inflation Reduction Act may hold the seeds of its success.

    5 minutes
    Harvard Law School professors Richard Lazarus and Jody Freeman
  • Nation & World

    Tackling climate change through law, policy

    Since it was founded in 2006 by Professor Jody Freeman, Harvard Law School’s Environmental Law and Policy Program has become the leader in its field, with renowned faculty, innovative courses, a lauded clinical program that gives students hands-on training in real cases. The program’s new Policy Initiative provides nonpartisan legal analysis and policy advice to…

    12 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Changing the climate of environmental law

    After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the ensuing reorganization of the Department of the Interior, Frances Ulmer, a member of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, turned to Harvard Law School’s Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic.

    4 minutes