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Brielle Green

Legislative Counsel

Issue Areas & Contact

  • Access to Courts
  • Regulatory (APA) issues
  • Judicial nominations

Office Phone: (202) 745-5205

Brielle Green is a Legislative Counsel with the Policy & Legislation team in Washington, D.C. She covers access to courts, judicial nominations and regulatory (APA) issues.

Prior to Earthjustice, Brielle worked at Advocates for Environmental Human Rights based in New Orleans, where she coordinated and participated in advocacy of the UN Human Rights Council for the Universal Periodic Review on Environmental and Climate Change Justice in Geneva, Switzerland. Brielle previously was a Legal Fellow for the Campaign for Community Change where she researched campaign finance, housing and health care issues. She has also worked as a contract lawyer for Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C.

Brielle is a 2011 graduate of William and Mary School of Law and received a B.A. in Political Science from Spelman College in Atlanta. Brielle has a long-standing passion for environmental justice that was in no small way spurred by her attending an environmental magnet elementary school in Minneapolis, MN.

Recent Blog Posts

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“Members of Congress who would seek to do the bidding of powerful corporate polluters instead of protecting the health and well-being of their constituents should be on notice: public interest groups across the spectrum will be fighting against these anti-democratic and dangerous attempts to undo the protections that keep Americans safe and healthy.”
– Trip Van NoppenPresident, Earthjustice. In response to the introduction of legislation in Congress that would undo critical clean air and water protections with a rarely used, backdoor tactic known as the Congressional Review Act.
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