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.

Media Inquiries

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

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 submits statement on expanding flood insurance coverage to House Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance

Flooding is the most common and costly environmental disaster in the U.S., causing more than $85 billion in damages in 2021 alone. Yet most standard insurance policies do not include coverage for flood-related damages.

March 9, 2023

Comments Filed

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

Alliance members urge EPA to take specific steps to ensure that the GHGRF directly benefits disadvantaged and low-income communities, and that recipients of GHGRF grants comply with their civil rights obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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

Legal Analysis

The Inflation Reduction Act’s Implications for Biden’s Climate and Environmental Justice Priorities

A look at the IRA’s impact on the Biden administration’s regulatory priorities for addressing climate change and how it will support the administration’s EJ goals.

August 12, 2022

Legal Analysis

Breaking Down the Environmental Justice Provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act

The Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) environmental justice (EJ) provisions represent the first time the Biden administration’s EJ agenda has been expressly included in a statute. However, the IRA leaves it […]

August 12, 2022

Legal Analysis

DOJ Revives Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs) as Part of EJ Agenda

The history of SEPs in federal environmental enforcement and response to legal arguments made by the Trump DOJ alleging that SEPs and other third party-payments violate federal law.

June 13, 2022