On The Environment

On The Environment


Latest Episodes

Incentives for Climate Solutions: Clean Energy Tax Cuts
April 28, 2017

YCELP Communications Research Assistant Lucy Kessler sits down with Rod Richardson, President of the Grace Richardson Fund, to discuss Clean Energy Tax Cuts and other market-driven solutions to pressing public policy challenges.

Red Lights to Green Lights: From 20th Century Environmental Regulation to 21st Century Sustainability
April 19, 2017

Professor Daniel C. Esty sits down with YCELP Research Assistant Lucy Kessler to discuss his new law review article and his argument for a 21st century approach to environmental law.

The Public Power of Private Law: a Conversation with Arden Shenker
March 21, 2017

Attorney Arden Shenker joins Yale Law School student Conor Dwyer Reynolds in the studio to discuss the power of private lawsuits in public environmental policy, with a specific focus on the 1963 case Renken v. Harvey Aluminum.

Conversation with James Cameron
December 01, 2016

James Cameron, Executive Fellow with the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and partner at Systemiq, joins Lucy Kessler, a student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, for a conversation.

A Conversation with Robert Sussman
November 29, 2016

Former EPA deputy administrator and guest lecturer in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Bob Sussman joins Emma Crow-Willard to discuss the Clean Power Plan.

Fighting Invasives: Working Dogs for Conservation
September 06, 2016

Whether locating wire snares in Africa or dyer's woad in the western United States, dogs are helping conservationists monitor wildlife and eradicate invasive species.

Nuclear Energy Post Paris Agreement: A Conversation with Christine Todd Whitman
June 15, 2016

Nuclear Energy Post Paris Agreement: A Conversation with Christine Todd Whitman

The Keystone XL Pipeline in a Post-COP21 World: A Conversation with Liz Barratt-Brown
April 11, 2016

Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Advisor to NRDC & Executive Committee member of the Yale Law School, joins Catherine Martini for a conversation.

Litigating for the Environment: A Conversation with Deborah Goldberg
March 08, 2016

Litigating for the Environment: A Conversation with Deborah Goldberg

The Significance of the Bureaucrat in Western American History: Hair-Raising Tales from the Department of the Interior
February 12, 2016

Dr. Patty Limerick joins Stephanie Ratte for a conversation about the importance of history for understanding environmental issues today, challenges and opportunities in the American West, and why we should care more about bureaucrats.