Environmental Justice

EELP collaborates with environmental justice and Tribal organizations and coalitions to identify legal pathways for laws, regulations, and policies to be more equitable. We produce legal research on how governmental agencies can drive meaningful engagement and produce more just environmental and public health outcomes for impacted communities.

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Legal Analysis

Key Changes in CEQ’s Phase 2 Regulations Implementing NEPA

A review of three key changes to the rule: factors that shape agencies’ level and scope of analysis, implementation of recent amendments to NEPA, and integrating environmental justice considerations.

August 8, 2024

President Biden Issues Long-Awaited Update to Clinton-era Environmental Justice Executive Order

On April 21, 2023, President Biden issued Executive Order (EO) 14096, “Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All,” updating President Clinton’s EO 12898 issued in 1994, “Federal Actions […]

August 3, 2023

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw — Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm

Hannah talks with Susan Crawford, the John A. Riley clinical professor at Harvard Law School, and Michelle Mapp, an Equal Justice Works law fellow at the ACLU of South Carolina and former CEO of the South Carolina Community Loan Fund, about Susan’s most recent book, Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm.

June 26, 2023

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw — Equitable Disaster Insurance & Climate Change with Hannah Perls, Carolyn Kousky, & Sean Hecht

The past, present, and future of disaster insurance.

May 5, 2023

CleanLaw Podcast

Podcast: The Making of Environmental Law with Richard Lazarus and Carrie Jenks

Carrie and Richard discuss how environmental law has developed over the last two decades and explores new challenges for the field.

April 10, 2023

Comments Filed

EELP Contributes to Comments on Civil Rights Protections in EPA’s $27B Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund RFI

EPA recently collected comments on the design and implementation of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GHGRF) created by the Inflation Reduction Act. EELP contributed to comments submitted by […]

December 7, 2022

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw — Legislating Environmental Justice in New York with Prof. Rebecca Bratspies and Hannah Perls

What recent EJ legislative wins mean for environmental regulation and overburdened communities in the state.

October 6, 2022

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw — Joel Scata and Hannah Perls on Fixing the National Flood Insurance Program

The history of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and the challenges facing the program in helping communities adapt to a climate-changed world.

February 14, 2022

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