Andrew Mergen

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Government lawyers thinking about the legal academy. Please join us on March 20.

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/...

Graphic of four people in front of microphones. Title: CleanLaw 100th Episode: Trumo's Bold Reversal on Energy and Climate Policy: "It's a Lot."

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...

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.

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.

NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA Lee esta historia en español aquí

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

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Crisis at DOJ’s Environment & Natural Resources Division - Legal Planet Dismantling ENRD will be disastrous for future administrations, the American people, and even for the Trump Administration.

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I grew up in the 202. This is profoundly good parenting.

Come work with us and our amazing students.

I do not have any words adequate to describe my outrage.

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.

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...

More than $6 Million in Support of Climate Journalism

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.

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Strongly agree!

Great job!

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.

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:

The DC Circuit will hear argument in an important Clean Air Act case on Friday.

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

#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

A poem by Langston Hughes titled "Tired". It reads as the following: "I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two -- And see what worms are eating At the rind."

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

#books #reading #booksky #poetry

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...

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...

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...

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.
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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...

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...