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Andrew Mergen

@andrewmergen.bsky.social
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Faculty Director Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School, formerly ENRD USDOJ (Appellate). 🦡 The Wisconsin Idea 🦡

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Andrew Mergen @andrewmergen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our Clinic and students were pleased to partner with Ben on a robust defense of the Roadless Rule. I have been around these issues for 25 years and we need this rule now more than ever!
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Now extended to Oct 6! But still urgent.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Felling a tree is not a take of the bats roosting in it unless the tree is felled for the purpose of killing or capturing them.” The @USFWS's new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, as revealed by Nesvik's memo, is the perfect blend of evil and stupidity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...
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Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Andrew Mergen @andrewmergen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Anybody know a Dire/Doodle breeder?
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Andrew Mergen @andrewmergen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Government lawyers thinking about the legal academy. Please join us on March 20.
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Rosa @rosahayes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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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Clinic Hiring for Clinical Fellow Position – Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinicsearch
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Environmental & Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School @harvardeelp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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...
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."
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/02/2025
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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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.
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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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
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Sommer Engels @sengels.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
legal-planet.org/2025/02/04/c...
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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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Andrew Mergen @andrewmergen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Come work with us and our amazing students.
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Andrew Mergen @andrewmergen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I do not have any words adequate to describe my outrage.
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Jack Goldsmith @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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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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.
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SEJ — Society of Environmental Journalists @sejorg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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-...
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More than $6 Million in Support of Climate Journalism
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Andrew Mergen @andrewmergen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Great job!
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 05/12/2024
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:
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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.
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Andrew Mergen @andrewmergen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The DC Circuit will hear argument in an important Clean Air Act case on Friday.
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Sara A. Colangelo @sara-colangelo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#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
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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
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Bird (he/him) @birdobserver.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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
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."
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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...
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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...
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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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...
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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...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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...
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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...
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