{"id":6161,"date":"2023-07-07T16:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T16:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/?p=6161"},"modified":"2025-02-05T15:59:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:59:49","slug":"clinic-faculty-director-andrew-mergen-discusses-ej-implications-of-scotus-affirmative-action-ruling-in-inside-climate-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/2023\/07\/07\/clinic-faculty-director-andrew-mergen-discusses-ej-implications-of-scotus-affirmative-action-ruling-in-inside-climate-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinic Faculty Director Andrew Mergen discusses EJ implications of SCOTUS affirmative action ruling in Inside Climate News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 7, 2023 \u2013 Clinic Faculty Director Andrew Mergen is featured in Inside Climate News discussing how the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s recent affirmative action ruling could complicate environmental justice initiatives, specifically the Biden Administration\u2019s Justice40 initiative. The Justice40 initiative \u201cdirects federal agencies to deliver 40 percent of the \u2018overall benefits\u2019 of their environmental and energy investments to disadvantaged communities.\u201d Professor Mergen indicated that the affirmative action ruling could potentially inspire more legal challenges from the right on such initiatives, raising concerns with environmental justice communities.<\/p>\n<p>Please click here to view the Inside Climate News article \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/07072023\/todays-climate-supreme-court-affirmative-action-biden-environmental-justice\/\">The Supreme Court\u2019s Affirmative Action Ruling Could Hamper Biden\u2019s Environmental Justice Agenda<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 7, 2023 \u2013 Clinic Faculty Director Andrew Mergen is featured in Inside Climate News discussing how the U.S. Supreme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-research","category-news","post-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}