CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE PRESS
Bloomberg covers the Trump administration's many steps to reshape and shrink the scope of federal environmental protection, met with a flood of legal challenges from companies, environmental groups, and state officials, a shift that Lawyers for Good Government's Jillian Blanchard says feels like a turning tide.
U.S. News & World Report examines how the Trump administration's anti-DEI policies are stalling public-health initiatives, featuring analysis from Lawyers for Good Government attorney Jillian Blanchard.
Circle of Blue reports on Puerto Rico entering a third month without reliable running water as infrastructure falters, citing Lawyers for Good Government's work on the island's infrastructure and environmental challenges.
Bloomberg reports that several Trump administration environmental rollbacks have been blocked in court, while some smaller rule changes have survived legal challenges.
A POLITICO analysis finds that while the administration wiped out hundreds of billions in clean-energy tax breaks, spending has been harder to unwind.
The New York Times reports on the possible phaseout of IRA rebates for home appliance upgrades and clean-energy affordability.
Tax-exempt organizations in Michigan that installed solar panels, EV chargers, or other clean energy equipment in 2025 can claim federal rebates worth 30%-70% of project costs. The filing deadline is May 15, 2026.
The money is being redirected to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, a government-owned utility with a checkered past.
She now serves as vice president of the CCEJ Program, with a staff of over 25, where she has managed over 700 pro bono attorneys providing critical guidance to cities, states, and nonprofit partners to help expedite the country's shift to a clean and equitable green economy and to address environmental justice.
Five months before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, tearing many houses off their foundations, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from such extreme flooding.
But in the lawsuit, the coalition argued that the bill revoked only climate grants that the E.P.A. had not yet awarded. Under the Biden administration, the agency had awarded the Solar for All grants to 60 state agencies, nonprofit groups and Native American tribes.
The claim that the bill rescinded the Solar for All grants is “patently false and legally unsupportable,” said Jillian Blanchard, Vice President of Climate Change and Environmental Justice at Lawyers for Good Government
When Donald Trump won reelection, Jennifer Hadayia knew she'd need a good lawyer. As the executive director of Air Alliance Houston, an environmental nonprofit advocacy organization that works to reduce the risks of air pollution on public health, she had fought the first Trump administration in court already on a variety of issues.
