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One of the people I spoke with was Kathleen Rogers, the president of Earth Day Network, an organization taking a lead role in staging the march. (Earth Day is also April 22 this year.) Rogers is an attorney who has spent 20 years focusing on environmental public policy and law.
I thought it would be good to ask Rogers — who has held senior positions with the National Audubon Society, the Environmental Law Institute, and two U.S. Olympic organizing committees — about the links between Saturday's event and Earth Day in general, as well as economics and the angry state of U.S. scientists.
What follows is an edited version of our conversation.
I’ve spent many years fighting to protect people from pollution, including agricultural pollution, but I’ve also spent years managing farms. I’m familiar with some of the challenges of farming, as well as the opportunities. For example, the farms I help manage have become model-certified and are more sustainable and profitable than when they were conventionally run.
President Trump's rhetoric has left many of the nation's top environmental lawyers wondering what will come of the Justice Department's environmental arm under his administration... Scott Fulton of the nonpartisan Environmental Law Institute noted that Trump's budget proposal would have not only slashed EPA's budget by a third, but also cut 45 percent of state grants — a major source of funding for state-led environmental enforcement.
An interview with John Pendergrass, moments after Trump signed the Executive Order on energy.
President Donald Trump's move to unravel Obama-era environmental regulations, launched with great fanfare Tuesday, is attracting scorn from both ends of the political spectrum... “When it comes to climate change, the Trump administration can't so easily put the genie back in the bottle,” said Scott Fulton, president of the Environmental Law Institute in Washington.
The Environmental Law Institute has released a guide for navigating the Trump administration and Congress' deregulatory push.
ELI Oceans Program Director Xiao Rencio-Blanco speaks at Acerga's conference on fisheries management
The Trump Administration is expected to issue a high-profile executive order that seeks to eliminate a major Obama-era environmental measure, the Clean Power Plan. But will this and any future deregulation rhetoric come to fruition in time to affect the private sector? Yes and no, says Scott Fulton, the president of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI).
ELI Oceans Program Director Xiao Recio-Blanco attends conference on fisheries management.
ELI's Xiao Recio will speak at the first conference on fishing held by the Shipowners' Association Siege of Galicia (Acerga). Translated from Galician via Google Translate.