By Makayla Lopez* In late March, after weeks of social distancing recommendations, business closures, and rising public health concerns, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced…
By Nora Baty* CRISPR-Cas9 is a revolutionary gene editing tool first discovered in the 1990s and harnessed for programmable gene editing in 2012.[i] With the…
By Matthew Piggins* Battery storage is “the bacon of the electric grid because it makes everything better.”[i] It is also the key to the decarbonizing…
By Thomas Cribbins* Last October, the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) sent notice to BNSF Railroad and the Secretary of the Interior that it intends…
By Caitlin Kierum* In October 2019, the Trump administration began covertly testing two asylum programs—Prompt Asylum Claim Review (“PACR”) and Humanitarian Asylum Review Process (“HARP”)—in…