People Places Planet Podcast

Emily Mallen, a partner at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C, talks to Matt Christiansen, FERC’s General Counsel about a variety of topics, including climate change, renewable energy, the grid, and energy justice.

Elissa Torres-Soto, abogada de ELI, habla con tres miembros de Líderes Jóvenes en Acción (Young Leaders in Action) para discutir sus esfuerzos para proteger el futuro de sus comunidades.

Elissa Torres-Soto, a Staff Attorney at ELI, speaks with three members of Líderes Jóvenes en Acción (Young Leaders in Action), to learn about the work they are doing to protect the future of their community.

The winners of the 2022 National Wetlands Awards share their perspectives and insight on a variety of wetlands-related matters.

ELI’s Arielle King meets with key organizers and leaders of the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit--Vernice Miller-Travis and Charles Lee—held more than 30 years ago. The episode is part of the Groundtruth series created in partnership with Beveridge & Diamond, one of the nation’s leading environmental law firms.

ELI’s Climate Judiciary Project bridges the gap between the climate science community and the judiciary. Sandy Nichols Thiam, ELI’s Director of Judicial Education, and Dr. Paul Hanle, the Project Founder, explain.

While the science of sea level rise is becoming more and more accurate and predictable, and the need to adapt to a changing future more clear, the legal and policy implications of doing so are anything but obvious. Jarryd Page, a staff attorney at ELI, talks about sea level rise with Robin Kundis Craig, the Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law at the University of Southern California School of Law.

Nicole Noelliste, a managing associate in the environmental practice at Sidley Austin LLP, talk to Matthew Tejada, Director of EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice, and Tai Lung, also with EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice, to learn about EJSCREEN 2.0, a mapping and screening tool that combines environmental and demographic data to highlight areas with potential environmental justice concerns.

Linda Breggin, a Senior Attorney at ELI and Director of ELI’s Center for State, Tribal and Local Environmental Programs, talks to Professors Monte Mills and Martin Nie about their article, Bridges to a New Era: A Report on the Past, Present, and Potential Future of Tribal Co-Management on Federal Public Lands. The article received honorable mention in this year’s Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR), a 15-year collaboration between ELI and Vanderbilt University Law School.

Dig into the policies, legal reforms, and actions the United States should take to make the agricultural industry carbon neutral.

Stacey Sublett Halliday and Julius Redd of Beveridge & Diamond recap EJ policy developments and talk with Matthew Tejada, Director of EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice, and Samantha Phillips Beers, Director of the EPA Region III Office of Communities, Tribes, and Environmental Assessment, about the intersection of EJ and ESG. This episode is part of the Groundtruth series created in partnership with Beveridge & Diamond, one of the nation’s leading environmental law firms.

ELI’s Linda Breggin and Akielly Hu speak to Kendra Abkowitz, Chief Sustainability and Resilience Officer at Metro Nashville/Davidson County, and Darby Hoover, a Senior Resource Specialist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, about a new toolkit that will make it easier to incorporate food waste measures into municipal climate action plans.

ELI staff attorney Kristine Perry talks to Scott Wilson Badenoch, Jr., a Visiting Attorney, and Arielle King, ELI’s Environmental Justice Staff Attorney, about the Institute’s newest environmental justice initiative, the Pro Bono Clearinghouse.

Environmental Justice (EJ) has gained new momentum in recent years, but this new-found energy and focus is best understood through the lens of those who have been working toward EJ for decades. In this episode, John Cruden, a Principal at Beveridge & Diamond, talks to renowned EJ leader and advocate Benjamin F. Wilson.

Nicole Noelliste, a managing associate in the environmental practice at Sidley Austin LLP, talks with John Cruden, former Assistant Attorney General of the ENRD (2015-2017), and David Buente, former Chief of the ENRD’s Environmental Enforcement Section (1985-1990). John and David share insights on the organizational development of the Environmental Crimes Section and Environmental Enforcement Section of ENRD and discuss key landmark cases such as Love Canal.