New Tools to Strengthen Tribal Access to Climate Adaptation Funding
EELP and Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative’s Tribal Coastal Resilience Project create a suite of policy resources for Northwest coastal Tribes
Beginning in late 2024, the project was designed to address funding barriers identified in the 2024 report, Climate Adaptation Barriers and Needs Experienced by Northwest Coastal Tribes. The team examined policy frameworks and funding programs that could help streamline processes and unlock new resources to support Tribal climate adaptation and resilience. The result is a practical suite of policy tools designed to strengthen Tribal access to funds for climate adaptation.
EELP staff, including former Senior Staff Attorney Hannah Perls, former Legal Fellow Luca Greco, and Research Assistants Jessica Lawson and Nicolette Santos, helped produce two new resources:
Responding to Disasters in Indian Country: a Primer for Tribal Nations, co-authored with Kelbie Kennedy, on accessing federal disaster assistance to support Tribal leaders and staff decide if and how to seek federal assistance after a major disaster.
Tribal Climate Adaptation Funding Source Database: this tool provides Northwest Tribes and Tribal affiliates a comprehensive list of grant programs and funding opportunities that can support Tribal adaptation and resilience activities. Users can sort across funding opportunities offered by state (WA and OR) and federal governments.
Visit the Climate Impacts Group to more about the project, including a webinar describing the final tools and process.
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After the Supreme Court issued its 2024 decision in Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, holding that far older agency rules could be subject to new challenges than previously thought, many commentators worried that the decision would have significant destabilizing effects. While no tidal wave of new challenges has materialized, a recent district court decision provides a reminder that Corner Post gives litigants a pathway to challenge even long-settled rules.
A January 2026 decision in Oregon Wild v. U.S. Forest Service is one of the first to invalidate a rule after relying on Corner Post to find that a challenge was timely. In Oregon Wild, nonprofit organizations challenged three United States Forest Service forest treatment projects in the Freemont-Winema National Forest in southern Oregon. The projects involved tree and brush thinning, controlled burning, commercial logging, and other treatments that the Forest Service had determined would benefit animal species in the area.
