The Latest On: Climate Change
Isaac Moriwake, Managing Attorney, Mid-Pacific Regional Office: "PBR [performance based regulation] is intended to move away from regulatory proceedings like rate cases because no one has time for that with a climate crisis and a 100% renewables goal just decades away."
Jan Hasselman, Attorney, Northwest Office: “[Standing Rock] has been particularly transformative in the way that we think about and talk about these issues. In the DAPL fight, it feels like we reoriented toward more of a framework around justice and a reckoning of the ways in which Indigenous people have been mistreated.”
Jan Hasselman, Attorney, Northwest Office, Earthjustice: “The era of multibillion dollar investment in fossil fuel infrastructure is over. Again and again, we see these projects failing to pass muster legally and economically in light of local opposition.”
Jan Hasselman, Attorney, Northwest Office: "We asked the court to do something that was unprecedented, but the law was on our side and it was the right thing to do."
