Andrew Mergen
@andrewmergen.bsky.social
Faculty Director Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School, formerly ENRD USDOJ (Appellate). 🦡 The Wisconsin Idea 🦡
Anybody know a Dire/Doodle breeder?
April 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Anybody know a Dire/Doodle breeder?
Government lawyers thinking about the legal academy. Please join us on March 20.
🚨Zoom session w/ former #DOJ ENRD & #EPA attorneys on TRANSITION FROM GOV SERVICE TO ACADEMIA 3/20 8pmET! Hear about teaching roles at law schools (clinical, podium, others); hiring processes/timing; & more! Come for the info, stay for the camaraderie! Register tinyurl.com/3esf7a2h #fedjobs #fedcuts
March 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Government lawyers thinking about the legal academy. Please join us on March 20.
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My clinic is hiring a new fellow! Come work with my excellent colleagues @andrewmergen.bsky.social, @sengels.bsky.social, and @shannonenelson.bsky.social on climate, environmental, and natural resources law issues. Posting: clinics.law.harvard.edu/environment/...
Clinic Hiring for Clinical Fellow Position – Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinicsearch
clinics.law.harvard.edu
February 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
My clinic is hiring a new fellow! Come work with my excellent colleagues @andrewmergen.bsky.social, @sengels.bsky.social, and @shannonenelson.bsky.social on climate, environmental, and natural resources law issues. Posting: clinics.law.harvard.edu/environment/...
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On our 100th CleanLaw 🎧, @jodyfreeman.bsky.social talks with Richard Lazarus, @andrewmergen.bsky.social, and Carrie Jenks about the Trump administration’s actions to date on energy & the environment and why the practice and study of law matter now more than ever. eelp.law.harvard.edu/cleanlaw-tru...
February 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
On our 100th CleanLaw 🎧, @jodyfreeman.bsky.social talks with Richard Lazarus, @andrewmergen.bsky.social, and Carrie Jenks about the Trump administration’s actions to date on energy & the environment and why the practice and study of law matter now more than ever. eelp.law.harvard.edu/cleanlaw-tru...
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The Trump administration’s rules for how White House staff can interact with the Justice Department is a departure from Biden-era guidance, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.
Trump White House says it can talk to Justice Dept. on criminal cases
Compared to guidance from the first Trump administration, the memo specifies that the president can discuss any types of cases with the attorney general.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The Trump administration’s rules for how White House staff can interact with the Justice Department is a departure from Biden-era guidance, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.
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This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake
web.archive.org/web/20231206...
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NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA
Lee esta historia en español aquí
web.archive.org
February 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake
web.archive.org/web/20231206...
web.archive.org/web/20231206...
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Come work with us and our amazing students.
My clinic is hiring a new fellow! Come work with my excellent colleagues @andrewmergen.bsky.social, @sengels.bsky.social, and @shannonenelson.bsky.social on climate, environmental, and natural resources law issues. Posting: clinics.law.harvard.edu/environment/...
Clinic Hiring for Clinical Fellow Position – Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinicsearch
clinics.law.harvard.edu
February 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Come work with us and our amazing students.
I do not have any words adequate to describe my outrage.
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
February 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I do not have any words adequate to describe my outrage.
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Grateful for this discussion with Isaac Chotiner at the New Yorker on the significance of the Trump EOs. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
How Donald Trump Is Transforming Executive Power
A flurry of seemingly illegal orders and firings could tee up the Supreme Court to cement a vast expansion of Presidential authority.
www.newyorker.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Grateful for this discussion with Isaac Chotiner at the New Yorker on the significance of the Trump EOs. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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SEJ has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation to strengthen climate journalism across North America! This grant is part of MacArthur’s $6 million investment in independent newsrooms and organizations dedicated to environmental reporting.
www.macfound.org/press/press-...
www.macfound.org/press/press-...
More than $6 Million in Support of Climate Journalism
www.macfound.org
January 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
SEJ has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation to strengthen climate journalism across North America! This grant is part of MacArthur’s $6 million investment in independent newsrooms and organizations dedicated to environmental reporting.
www.macfound.org/press/press-...
www.macfound.org/press/press-...
Great job!
We're hiring! Come join one of the best US policy shops around. Sr. attorney wanted to help federal agencies respond to SCOTUS decisions related to admin law, including the major questions doctrine and Loper Bright.
There's lots to be done.
eelp.law.harvard.edu/work-with-us...
There's lots to be done.
eelp.law.harvard.edu/work-with-us...
Work with Us: Senior Staff Attorney – Environmental and Energy Law Program
eelp.law.harvard.edu
December 6, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Great job!
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in August, i went to two meetings in Iowa—one headed by the Sierra Club, one emceed by disgraced congressman Steve King—both in opposition to the same project: a proposed carbon-capture pipeline.
for Drilled, my longread on the pipeline & what it says about the future of climate politics:
for Drilled, my longread on the pipeline & what it says about the future of climate politics:
Unrest in Carbon Country
How agricultural interests are teaming up with big oil to take advantage of tax credits meant to fight climate change—and what the backlash can tell us about the future of climate politics.
drilled.media
December 5, 2024 at 4:16 PM
in August, i went to two meetings in Iowa—one headed by the Sierra Club, one emceed by disgraced congressman Steve King—both in opposition to the same project: a proposed carbon-capture pipeline.
for Drilled, my longread on the pipeline & what it says about the future of climate politics:
for Drilled, my longread on the pipeline & what it says about the future of climate politics:
The DC Circuit will hear argument in an important Clean Air Act case on Friday.
Can the federal government require power plants to capture carbon emissions and other pollutants? Andrew Mergen of Harvard Law School, a former appellate attorney at the Justice Department’s environmental division, unpacks what will be a landmark ruling: salatainstitute.harvard.edu/fossil-power...
Fossil power and carbon capture: A looming legal showdown - The Salata Institute
Can the federal government require power plants to capture carbon emissions and other pollutants? Andrew Mergen, a former appellate attorney at the Justice Department’s environmental division, unpacks...
salatainstitute.harvard.edu
December 4, 2024 at 4:11 AM
The DC Circuit will hear argument in an important Clean Air Act case on Friday.
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#EPA just announced a new draft framework on #cumulativeimpacts "based on the best available science on how pollution and other burdens interact to affect individuals’ and communities’ health and well-being." Available for public comment til 2/19/25
www.epa.gov/newsreleases... #environmentaljustice
www.epa.gov/newsreleases... #environmentaljustice
EPA Announces New Draft Framework to Advance Consideration of Cumulative Impacts on Communities | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Announces New Draft Framework to Advance Consideration of Cumulative Impacts on Communities
www.epa.gov
November 22, 2024 at 12:21 PM
#EPA just announced a new draft framework on #cumulativeimpacts "based on the best available science on how pollution and other burdens interact to affect individuals’ and communities’ health and well-being." Available for public comment til 2/19/25
www.epa.gov/newsreleases... #environmentaljustice
www.epa.gov/newsreleases... #environmentaljustice
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Important new study shows that current climate models underestimate the human-caused slowing of the #AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), because they neglect freshwater influx from Greenland melt and other sources. /1 🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation driven by subarctic freshening since the mid-twentieth century - Nature Geoscience
Fresh meltwater entering the Labrador and Irminger seas has resulted in a slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation since the 1950s, according to a combination of modelling approaches...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Important new study shows that current climate models underestimate the human-caused slowing of the #AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), because they neglect freshwater influx from Greenland melt and other sources. /1 🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Honored that this essay for Outside magazine won gold at this year's Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. Thanks to then editor Alex Heard for the assignment.
www.outsideonline.com/culture/essa...
www.outsideonline.com/culture/essa...
Mississippi Delta: Returning Home to Its Haunted Past
A Black southerner who grew up during the dying years of Jim Crow journeyed north as a young man to pursue life as a writer and scholar. Fate brought him back, and he fell in love with a troubled part...
www.outsideonline.com
November 13, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Honored that this essay for Outside magazine won gold at this year's Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. Thanks to then editor Alex Heard for the assignment.
www.outsideonline.com/culture/essa...
www.outsideonline.com/culture/essa...
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NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found.
www.propublica.org/article/segr...
www.propublica.org/article/segr...
Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2024 at 12:07 PM
NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found.
www.propublica.org/article/segr...
www.propublica.org/article/segr...