Emmett Environmental Law Policy Clinic

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The Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic is offering students even more opportunities to do a wide variety of hands-on, environmental legal and policy work. Under the leadership of Director and Clinical Professor Wendy Jacobs, the Clinic has expanded to offer local, national and international projects covering a broad range of environmental issues. These projects include:

• Filing an amicus brief in support of a petition for certiorari to the US Supreme Court in a case about the disposal of debris from mountaintop removal coal mines in streams.
• Developing a legal roadmap for the rapid deployment of carbon capture and sequestration in the United States.
• Analyzing the concept of "clean, renewable energy" and whether the burning of animal waste qualifies.
• Advocating for the adoption of federal public lands policies that would mitigate the effects of climate change and promote adaptation to climate change
• Serving as Special Regulatory Counsel to Massachusetts in connection with development of a comprehensive Ocean Management Plan.
• Assisting municipalities in their efforts to protect an ecologically-sensitive estuary from construction activities and a buried pipeline.
• Advising scientists on the potential legal consequences of their studies of household exposure to environmental contaminants.
• Advising consumers about options for purchasing electricity generated by renewable power.