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Rethinking Job Searches for Environmental Lawyers

A couple of people have written to me wondering why I posted the RGGI job. It isn’t really a law or a policy position, they say: really more like a glorified administrative assistant. I don’t read it that way, but there are two ways to respond to the complaint, with the second one providing some …

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RGGI, RGGI, RGGI…..

As long as we’re at it, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative has posted an announcement for a potentially important job opportunity: RGGI, Inc. seeks to hire a program coordinator to support the implementation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cooperative effort of Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the …

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HLS ISO PD

Our friends at Harvard Law School asked us to spread the word about their search for a senior attorney to serve as policy director for their environmental law program. The Policy Director will lead the policy component of the HLS Environmental Law and Policy Program and work closely with environmental law faculty, who will determine …

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Openings for Env. Law Profs

The law school hiring season is beginning. PrawfsBlawg lists names of hiring committee chairs and for many schools adds a list of fields that the school is targeting. Here is a list of schools hiring in environmental law and related fields: Indianapolis University (Land Use, Admin.), St. Thomas (Minn.) (Env.), University of Illinois (Admin.) Colorado …

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