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Man making bricks in India

How work, and workers, can influence heat action plans

Experts from Harvard Law School share lessons from international and interdisciplinary perspectives on heat adaptation and the climate crisis.
Law & Policy
Thu, Mar 27, 2025

Corporate filings reveal U.S. companies working on climate solutions

Annual reports to the SEC offer a useful measure of how public firms are responding to climate change, less tainted by greenwashing and empty promises.
Law & Policy
Wed, Feb 19, 2025

The president targets EPA’s authority to address climate change – will he succeed?

It would be an uphill battle to convince federal judges in 2025, even conservative ones, that the scientific record on climate change is wrong.
Law & Policy
Tue, Jan 28, 2025
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What Trump’s expected exit from the Paris Agreement will mean

Environmental economist Robert Stavins discusses what a second U.S. exit from the Paris Agreement could mean for global climate leadership and more.
Law & Policy
Mon, Jan 13, 2025
Sign on EPA building reads: United States Environmental Protection Agency

Fossil power and carbon capture: A looming legal showdown

Can the federal government require power plants to capture carbon emissions and other pollutants? Andrew Mergen, a former appellate attorney at the Justice Department’s environmental division, unpacks what will be a landmark ruling.
Energy Law & Policy
Tue, Dec 3, 2024

All perspectives expressed in the Harvard Climate Brief are those of the authors and not of Harvard University or the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. Any errors are the authors’ own. The Harvard Climate Brief is edited by an interdisciplinary team of Harvard faculty.