Based in New York, Mandy DeRoche is the Director of Emerging Issues, leading work across Earthjustice on data centers, cryptocurrency mining operations, and other large loads — focusing on their impacts on the electricity grid, the environment, and communities.

Mandy is a co-author of The Energy Bomb: How Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrency Mining Worsens the Climate Crisis and Harms Communities Now, a comprehensive guide to environmental impacts of cryptomining. The white paper explains the opaque and little-regulated cryptocurrency mining industry and its negative effects on the climate, local communities, and public health. It also provides a mythbusting section that tackles the industry’s greenwashing talking points to justify its massive energy use.

Prior to joining Earthjustice, Mandy served as special counsel in the Executive Division of the New York State Office of the Attorney General, and as an assistant attorney general in the Office’s Environmental Protection Bureau, where she focused on climate change and environmental justice work. Prior to the AG’s office, Mandy was in private practice, where she litigated commercial disputes, handled securities law investigations, and represented individuals and organizations in environmental justice, economic justice, and immigration matters.

Mandy received her B.A. from Cornell University, her J.D. from Boston College Law School, and her M.S. in Urban Environmental Systems Management from the Pratt Institute.