Green Energy Institute

Trump on Earth, a podcast exploring the effects of the Trump administration on the environment, featured GEI’s founder and director Professor Melissa Powers on episode 45: Brett Kavanaugh is Trump’s Pick. Should Environmentalists Be Worried?

GEI Director and Professor of Law Melissa Powers detailed a few of the impacts of Justice Kennedy’s retirement on environmental law and litigation for ThinkProgress and VICE News.

In an effort to pass a carbon pricing policy for Oregon in 2019, state lawmakers formed the Joint Interim Committee on Carbon Reduction and the Carbon Policy office during the 2018 legislative session.

GEI Staff Attorney Amelia Schlusser was one of three presenters for the low-carbon future group before the Oregon Public Utility Commission (PUC) at its May SB 978 meeting, a process aimed at exploring how Oregon’s utility laws and regulatory framework should change to meet current and future needs.

Thanks to those of you who joined us for Swamp Ethics at Vestas yesterday afternoon. Melissa teed off the event by detailing some of the recent actions by federal officials that have caused ethical concerns in the wider community. We appreciate the engaging conversation that followed between ethics professionals Steve Johansen and Theodore Reuter as we examined the ethical boundaries for licensed lawyers acting as government officials in Oregon. Thanks to those in the audience that also contributed great questions into the mix! In case you missed it, we hope to have the event available for streaming online soon - stay tuned!