Dror Ladin

Senior Attorney

Northeast Office

Senior Attorney Dror Ladin

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Dror Ladin

Senior Attorney Northeast Office

Nydia Gutiérrez
Public Affairs and Communications Strategist
ngutierrez@earthjustice.org

Dror Ladin is a senior attorney at Earthjustice’s Northeast Regional Office, where he focuses on enforcing climate mandates.

He was previously an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, where he represented the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition in their challenge to President Trump’s border wall. Dror’s work at the ACLU also included representing torture survivors, people imprisoned without charge at Guantanamo and elsewhere, fishermen abused by the Coast Guard, and immigrants facing detention and deportation. Prior to joining the ACLU as a Skadden fellow, Dror clerked for the Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Dror is a graduate of Vassar College and Yale Law School.

Nydia Gutiérrez
Public Affairs and Communications Strategist
ngutierrez@earthjustice.org

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Quoted in the News

September 4, 2026

Syracuse Public Media

Court decision on NYS ‘polluter pays’ law is not final outcome on climate change costs

“I would say that the basic question is, as a society, who do we expect to pay for the harms of climate change? Because we can't pretend that there are no harms. We know that there are harms. We know storms are getting worse. We know flooding is getting worse. We know extreme weather is getting worse.”
April 26, 2025

The New York Times

Can Trump Administration Still Kill NYC Congestion Pricing After Lawyers’ Doubts?

“Once it is public, it necessarily remains public.”
April 21, 2025

Streetsblog NYC

Early Trump Memos Undermine Sean Duffy’s Argument Against Congestion Pricing

"In administrative law, you're not supposed to just reopen questions based on things that could have been raised at the time."
March 27, 2025

Mother Jones

In Good Climate News, a Federal Judge Upholds NYC’s Ban on Gas in New Buildings

“This ruling demonstrates that there’s absolutely no reason to interpret the Berkeley decision so broadly.”
January 26, 2023

The Verge

New York faces a new legal fight over a proposed crypto-mining power plant

“The law says you can’t just ignore these really serious consequences. Running the plant 24 hours a day to mine crypto is going to be very bad both for the climate and for people in the area.”

Latest Press Statements

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