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EELP is hiring a Managing Attorney

The Environmental & Energy Law Program (EELP) at Harvard Law School is seeking a Managing Attorney to lead our legal and policy research on climate change, equitable disaster preparedness and response, and durable legal frameworks that drive meaningful engagement and produce more just environmental and public health outcomes for impacted communities.

Academia

2026-2027 Clinical Fellow, Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic

Review process begins Feb. 2026 Posted Jan. 13, 2026

The Clinical Fellow works with the Clinic Director and Clinical Instructor on a broad array of environmental, energy, and natural resource cases and projects and assist with the supervision of clinic students. The Fellow’s work will involve a mix of litigation, administrative advocacy, policy work, legislative drafting, and client advising. Required qualifications: J.D. earned within the past three years. Expected start date: July/August 2026.

Clinical Assistant or Associate Professor, Tulane Environmental Law Clinic

Start date Jan. 2026 Posted Sept. 2025

Tulane University Law School seeks to hire a full-time Clinical Assistant or Associate Professor of Law in its Environmental Law Clinic. Run by full-time faculty, the law school’s clinical programs are among the most robust experiential learning programs in the nation for law students and exemplify the Law School’s strong culture of public service.

Non-Tenure Track Position in Law and Public Policy, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

Preference before Dec. 1, 2025

The O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs (O’Neill) at Indiana University, Bloomington campus, invites applications for a full-time, renewable, non-tenure track academic year appointment as a Lecturer or Clinical faculty position to teach in its expanding Law and Public Policy program. The course assignments are flexible, with topics related to areas such as constitutional law, administrative law, legal history, and legislative processes. The school has a particular interest in candidates with a background in environmental law and/or dispute resolution

Professor/Associate Professor and Director, Vermont Law & Graduate School

The Vermont Law and Graduate School invites applications for the position of Associate Dean of Environmental Programs and Director of the Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment. This role offers the opportunity to lead an institution in shaping the future of environmental sustainability, climate change, biodiversity, environmental justice, and related fields. The successful candidate will be a visionary leader with a proven track record in higher education, research excellence, and successful fundraising efforts. It is anticipated that this candidate will be hired with tenure subject to approval by the Board of Trustees.

Clinical Fellowship in the Environmental Justice Law and Advocacy Clinic, Yale Law School

Jan. 31, 2026, applications reviewed on a rolling basis

The Clinical fellowship in the Environmental Justice Law and Advocacy (EJLA) Clinic is a two-year position with a third-year option. This fellowship is designed for lawyers with at least three years of legal practice experience who are considering a career in law school teaching. The fellow will work with the Environmental Justice Law and Advocacy Clinic on multi-modal client representations related to the advancement of environmental justice and intersectional concerns such as Tribal sovereignty, energy and climate, public health, civil rights, natural resource management, and participatory environmental governance. Speciﬁc responsibilities include supervising students in representation of clients, developing clinical pedagogy, co-teaching classes, participating in the clinic’s intake process and developing new matters, supervising summer legal interns and managing cases when school is not in session, and pursuing a scholarship agenda.

NGOs/Public Interest

Senior Attorney, Clean Transportation, EDF

Posted Dec. 10, 2025

The Senior Attorney, Clean Transportation, will play a substantial role in the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) legal and regulatory advocacy for clean transportation in the United States. The Senior Attorney will help lead or support EDF’s advocacy on a wide range of innovative and impactful state and local transportation programs, including California mobile source emissions standards, state funding and incentive programs for zero-emission vehicles and charging infrastructure, and other policies.

Senior Attorney, Texas Clean Affordable Power, EDF

Posted Dec. 8, 2025

The Senior Attorney, Texas Clean Affordable Power leads the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) legal and regulatory advocacy in support of clean energy in Texas. This primarily comprises representing EDF before ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission of Texas for utility practices that support timely, affordable electrification. This position also supports EDF’s legislative advocacy and civil litigation related to clean energy, particularly with respect to Texas. The Senior Attorney works in close coordination with EDF’s State Director for Texas as well as colleagues in EDF’s Energy Transition team.

Senior Attorney, Louisiana Clean Affordable Power, EDF

Posted Dec. 8, 2025

The Senior Attorney, Louisiana Clean Affordable Power leads the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) legal and regulatory advocacy in support of clean energy in Louisiana. This primarily comprises representing EDF before the Louisiana Public Service Commission and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator and could also include work at the New Orleans City Council and/or the Southwest Power Pool, with a focus on matters that relate to the planning and development of the transmission system, the development and integration of clean energy resources, and efficient and effective management of the electric system, including both generation and transmission resources as well as demand-side management and efficiency.

Associate Attorney, Alaska Regional Office, Earthjustice

Preferred deadline Feb. 1, 2026

The Alaska office of Earthjustice seeks an Associate Attorney to join our team working to protect the natural values and ecosystems of Alaska and the people who use and rely on them. This role can be performed from our Juneau or Anchorage offices.

Associate Attorney, Gulf Regional Office, Earthjustice

Preferred deadline Feb. 8, 2026

Earthjustice is seeking an Associate Attorney to join our growing team of lawyers who work to accelerate a shift towards electrification of goods movement, the transportation sector in total, as well as industries. The Associate Attorney will reside in our Gulf Regional Office, focusing on litigation, advocacy and strategy before Texas’s public utility commission (PUC) and in courts to support an equitable transition to clean, affordable, and reliable energy. The work may include a litigation docket at the PUC.

Associate Attorney, Northern Rockies, Earthjustice

Preferred deadline Feb. 1, 2026

Earthjustice seeks an Associate Attorney to join our Bozeman office. In the Northern Rockies, we are engaged in litigation focused on protecting the region’s ecosystems, wildlife, and culturally and environmentally important lands, as well as advancing clean energy.

Associate Attorney, Sustainable Food & Farming Program, Earthjustice

Preferred deadline Jan. 11, 2026 Posted Dec. 9, 2025

Earthjustice seeks an Associate Attorney to join our Sustainable Food and Farming Program based in New York or Washington, D.C. The position requires 0-3 years of post-law-school legal experience. Earthjustice’s Sustainable Food & Farming Program (“SFF”) engages in litigation and advocacy to improve our nation’s food systems, from crop selection and farming practices to food processing and sustainability. Working in partnership with communities, advocacy groups, scientists, and others, we fight for safe and healthy food, climate-friendly farming, and justice throughout the chain. We take on cases with regional and national scope.

Managing Attorney, Alaska Regional Office, Earthjustice

Posted Jan. 5, 2026

The Managing Attorney leads and oversees the work of the Alaska Office, providing leadership for a team currently comprised of thirteen staff members, including ten attorneys. The Managing Attorney manages, develops, and implements regional strategies that align with organization-wide strategic plans and programmatic and litigation priorities. They also drive efforts to build and maintain effective working relationships with clients and partners, as well as with the news media, government officials, and donors. The Managing Attorney will be based in either Anchorage or Juneau, where we follow a hybrid in-office schedule, and will report to a Vice President of Litigation based in San Francisco, CA

Senior Attorney, Clean Energy, Earthjustice

Preferred deadline Nov. 30, 2025 Posted Oct. 31, 2025

Earthjustice seeks a Senior Attorney to join its growing team of lawyers who work to accelerate a shift from coal- and gas-fired electricity generation, and to advance clean energy throughout the country.  The Senior Attorney will focus on litigation, advocacy and strategy before state public utility commissions, state and federal administrative bodies, and in state and federal courts in support of an equitable transition to clean, affordable, and reliable energy.

Senior Attorney, Fossil Fuels, Earthjustice

Preferred deadline Jan. 14, 2026

Earthjustice seeks a Senior Attorney to join the Fossil Fuels Program. We use the power of the law to challenge the onslaught of new oil and gas infrastructure development that threatens climate, communities, and the environment. This position will focus on oil and gas infrastructure and related projects in the U.S. Gulf region, particularly Louisiana and Texas. The attorney in this position will be place-based in the New Orleans’ satellite office space shared with other Fossil Fuel Program staff New Orleans, Louisiana.

Senior Attorney, Gulf Regional Office, Earthjustice

Preference before Nov. 10, 2025 Posted Oct. 20, 2025

Earthjustice is seeking a Senior Attorney to join its growing team of lawyers who work to accelerate a shift towards electrification of goods movement, the transportation sector in total, as well as industries. The Senior Attorney will reside in the Gulf Regional Office, focusing on litigation, advocacy and strategy before Texas’s public utility commission and in courts to support an equitable transition to clean, affordable, and reliable energy. The work may include a litigation docket at the public utility commission.

Senior Attorney, Northwest Regional Office, Earthjustice

Posted Oct. 27, 2025

Earthjustice’s Northwest Regional Office is looking to hire a collaborative and experienced Senior Attorney to join the team working on environmental, energy, and human health issues in the Pacific NW. The Senior Attorney will focus on accelerating the shift towards electrification of goods movement, the transportation sector, and associated industries. The Senior Attorney will concentrate on strategy, public advocacy, and litigation in state legislatures and regulatory agencies, Washington’s Utilities & Transportation Commission (UTC), Oregon’s Public Utility Commission (PUC), and state and federal courts to support an equitable transition to clean, affordable, and reliable energy.

Vice President for Massachusetts, Conservation Law Foundation

Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) is seeking a Vice President for Massachusetts to join our team working for a healthy and thriving New England for all. The Vice President for Massachusetts will be a leading voice representing CLF in the Commonwealth. The State VP is responsible for developing and implementing CLF’s statewide legislative advocacy as well as advancing the organization’s strategic priorities more broadly in Massachusetts. The State VP will work collaboratively with program vice presidents and dozens of lawyers, planners, scientists, analysts and other advocates across six programs: Clean Energy and Climate Change; Healthy and Resilient Communities; Environmental Justice; Clean Air and Water; Strategic Litigation; and Oceans.

Attorney or Senior Attorney, Institute for Policy Integrity

Deadline: Oct. 1, 2025

This attorney or senior attorney position will focus primarily on appellate litigation and emerging administrative law issues but may also work on other state or federal regulatory issues.

Senior Attorney for Enforcement Program, Environmental Integrity Project

EIP is accepting applications for a Senior Attorney to join our team working to hold industrial polluters and federal and state agencies accountable for compliance with environmental laws. The Senior Attorney will support EIP’s Enforcement Program and work to reduce pollution from industrial sources through citizen suit enforcement actions and other advocacy strategies. EIP takes legal action to clean up pollution; we publish data-driven reports that push federal and state regulators to better protect public health; and we work with frontline communities to provide them with the resources they need to obtain the protection of our environmental laws.

States

Assistant Attorney General, New York

Nov. 14, 2025

The Office of the New York State Attorney General’s (OAG) Environmental Protection Bureau is seeking a litigator to serve in the New York City office. This position involves representing the state in environmental, public health, and energy matters in lawsuits in state and federal court, and in proceedings before administrative agencies. The Environmental Protection Bureau enforces state and federal environmental laws that protect New Yorkers’ rights to clean air, clean water, and safe and healthy communities, and conducts investigations into violations of those laws. The bureau is focused on advancing environmental justice throughout the state, including addressing the inequitable distribution of pollution and other environmental health burdens, and associated health disparities. The bureau also defends in both federal and state courts the state’s executive agencies charged with environmental responsibilities, including the Departments of Environmental Conservation, Health, and Transportation; the Adirondack Park Agency; and the Lake George Park Commission, among others. The bureau is a national leader in multistate federal environmental advocacy and litigation.

Internships

1L Legal Intern Summer 2026

Posted Nov. 10, 2025

Legal interns on the Environmental Defense Fund’s U.S. Legal & Regulatory team will work on projects such as researching and writing legal and policy memos and other documents for federal court litigation, administrative litigation, national and state regulatory proceedings including before state public utility commissions, and various policy venues.