Hannah Perls – Page 4 – Environmental and Energy Law Program

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Hannah’s work focuses on equitable disaster preparedness and response and federal environmental justice initiatives. She previously worked as a program assistant and development director for Cristosal, a human rights non-profit based in El Salvador, providing legal and humanitarian assistance to families internally displaced by violence. Hannah also worked as an environmental scientist specializing in coastal Superfund sites for AnchorQEA. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. with honors in environmental science and sustainable development from Columbia University. Hannah serves on the Environmental Justice Legal Advisory Board for Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) in Roxbury, MA, and as the law & policy co-chair for the Climigration Network.

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EPA’s Methane Proposal for the Oil and Gas Sector – A Strong Foundation to Reduce Methane Emissions and Regulatory Path for More

Key areas on which stakeholders may want to provide EPA comment to support a final rule that achieves significant emission reductions through the deployment of cost-effective technologies and approaches.

November 16, 2021

In the Media

A mostly Black Alabama county has no municipal sewer service. Can the 1964 Civil Rights Act be used for environmental justice?

November 16, 2021

In the Media

Mining Atop a Massacre

October 19, 2021

Legal Analysis

Equitable Disaster Relief: An Analysis of FEMA’s Legal Authority to Integrate Equity under the Stafford Act

The act’s discretionary function exception gives FEMA extraordinary flexibility in integrating equity considerations by shielding most FEMA rules, policies, and other decisions from judicial review.

October 13, 2021

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw — Hannah Perls and Aminta Ossom Talk about Human Rights and Climate Change

How looking at environmental problems through a human rights lens can provide new insights and legal strategies for addressing environmental injustice in the United States and beyond.

August 9, 2021

In the Media

White House Pilots Host Of EPA Programs Under Justice40 Benefit Mandate

According to Hannah Perls, a legal fellow at the Harvard Environmental & Energy Law Program, the interim guidance is also silent on WHEJAC recommendation for a “community consent” requirement before a project is approved, the “right to sue” for disparate impacts, a “transformative” focus on in capacity building to access benefits, and sunsetting investments in fossil fuels by 2030.

July 22, 2021

In the Media

NEPA may spur lawsuits over ANWR leasing freeze

“But the strength of that [challenge] will depend on what comes out of this NEPA analysis,” said Hannah Perls, a legal fellow at Harvard Law School’s Environmental & Energy Law Program.

June 9, 2021

In the Media

Biden’s Baffling Inconsistency on Alaska Drilling

“They’re weighing: Is this the hill we want to die on or are we going to be sacrificing something that could damage our institutional capacity over the long term,” said Hannah Perls, legal fellow at Harvard’s Environmental and Energy Law Program. “The Biden DOJ has to work with what they inherited: regulations, records, and briefs developed under the Trump administration. They have to decide, is it worth it in this moment to do a 180 and make a weaker argument that could lead a federal court to make a decision about not just the Willow project but how much respect agency expertise deserves.”

June 9, 2021

CleanLaw Podcast

Cleanlaw – Hana Vizcarra and Hannah Perls Talk about President Biden’s First 100 Days

EELP Staff Attorney Hana Vizcarra and Fellow Hannah Perls talk about the progress of the Biden administration on climate and environmental priorities now that the first hundred days have passed. […]

June 3, 2021