News & Highlights

Forest Service Proposes to Remove Protections from Roadless Areas

Sara Dewey talks with Andy Mergen and award-winning journalist Ben Goldfarb about the proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, the ecological value of roadless areas in our national forests, and what to expect if the proposal is finalized.

FERC has options for modernizing PJM’s governance

The commission’s jurisdiction over transmission governance allows it to modify filing-rights allocations and adjust the PJM Interconnection’s nominating committee, writes Harvard Law’s Ari Peskoe.

Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection

Trump Administration Proposes to Rescind Roadless Rule

The proposal is in response to deregulatory executive orders focused on expanding domestic timber and fossil energy production.

Pushback Mounts Against Trump’s Attacks on the Endangered Species Act

Trump administration removes climate pollution limits on power plants

E.P.A. Erases Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants

DOJ’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, Past and Present

Erika, Andy, and Sommer talk about their time at ENRD and how recent changes are reshaping the work of "the government's lawyers."

Now Hiring: Managing Attorney

The Environmental & Energy Law Program (EELP) is seeking a Managing Attorney to join its legal and policy research team.

Offshore Wind Development Under Trump: Legal Challenges and What’s Next

Carrie Jenks and Erika Kranz discuss challenges the administration’s actions have faced in court and what’s at stake for the future of clean energy.

DOJ’s Environmental Enforcement Has Collapsed in the Second Trump Administration, Former Attorneys Say

Supreme Court tees up new test of FERC’s political independence

Evaluating Supreme Court’s 2025-26 term: ‘A conservative Court that has also checked the Trump administration’

Harvard Law faculty weigh in on a SCOTUS term marked by major decisions on citizenship, voting rights, and presidential power.

Trump Sets Endangered Species Rules on Path to Supreme Court

How the law (and Harvard lawyers) helped save the bald eagle

On the 250th anniversary of American independence, Harvard Law’s Andrew Mergen explains how a national symbol went from ‘bad bird’ to comeback icon.

A Department Untethered: The Erosion of DOJ Settlement Norms and Implications for Environmental Law

Analysis of recent departures from DOJ norms and the use of litigation and settlement as tools for advancing policy objectives.

EPA’s power plant repeal could leave some rules in place

With Big Decisions Ahead, the Supreme Court Collides With a Testy Trump

CleanLaw — The Student Environmental Law Experience at HLS: Research, Clinics, and Community 

Professors Jody Freeman and Richard Lazarus talk to HLS students about their work with EELP and the clinic and what life at HLS is really like.

An Endangered Species Act Exemption Reveals Distrust of Process, Congress, and Courts

A short article by Andrew Mergen and Erika Kranz in the Yale Journal on Regulation and ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice blog.