EELP News How the Five Pillars of U.S. Climate Policy are Threatened Harvard climate experts, including Jody Freeman, share what they’ve learned from Trump’s first four months and discuss what they’re watching for in coming months. May 20, 2025
Legal Analysis The Trump Administration’s Aggressive Anti-Regulatory, Pro-Fossil Fuel Directives Executive orders reflect the administration’s expansive view of executive authority. April 23, 2025
Regulatory Tracker Paris Climate Agreement President Trump directed the US ambassador to the UN to withdraw from the treaty. January 20, 2025
Legal Analysis Held v. Montana: A Win for Young Climate Advocates and What It Means for Future Litigation How this case reached the Court in the first place, implications of the use of the major questions doctrine, and EPA’s path forward. August 30, 2023
Biden’s First 100 Days of Climate Action Over the past four years, EELP closely tracked the Trump administration’s environmental deregulatory efforts. After the 2020 presidential election, we shifted our focus to assessing what these deregulatory actions would […] May 11, 2021
Explainer Biden’s Week One Executive Orders – Mapping Climate Action President Biden kicked off his administration’s first week by signing a flurry of executive orders (EOs) focused on environmental issues and climate change. We’ve been tracking and analyzing these orders […] March 5, 2021
EPA’s New Aviation Emissions Standard: Why It’s Already Obsolete Aviation is responsible for 3.5% of anthropogenic climate change. Until this year, however, the United States lacked any regulation addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from aircraft. In the final days […] February 25, 2021
Abandoning structures to rising sea levels, what are the legal issues and solutions? Shifting property lines and flooded structures are not new problems, but with climate change increasing their occurrence, we need new legal tools and better policy to address them. Land loss […] November 3, 2020
Troubled Waters: Coastal Avulsion, A State Survey Click here to download this white paper. As the world warms, rising seas and more intense storms threaten to reshape the American coastline. Climate change has already had a dramatic […] March 24, 2020
