On the Environment Blog

January 18, 2022
Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Yale School of the Environment and Yale Law School When the history of the global shift toward a clean...
May 5, 2021
As we pass the new administration’s hundred-day mark, advocates across civil society have witnessed a paradigm shift in environmental policy at the federal...
December 14, 2020
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently issued a final rule that imposed new limits on proxy voting for private employee benefit plans’...
October 19, 2020
This month marks the paperback release of A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future, a book edited by Center for Environmental Law & Policy...
June 15, 2020
This June, four authors from “A Better Planet: Pathways to a Sustainable Future” joined Center Director Dan Esty, Yale FES Dean Indy Burke, and special guest...
February 26, 2020
An opinion piece by Taryn Akiyama, Center Research Assistant  This year, 38 students from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies attended the...
February 17, 2020
The United States is in the midst of an environmental watershed moment - the U.S. has announced its intent to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, and there...