Conservation Law Foundation

Wow.

And the origin of it was we, I worked at an organization called Conservation Law Foundation.

And one of the things that they did for healthy environments was to try to use market-based solutions to kind of support the types of healthy development that we want to see.

And at the same time, back then, this was like 2012, 2014, there were a lot of questions about what it means to make health-focused investments in places, like how we aim development and the way a neighborhood changes at health and well-being.

You know, I think, um, so, um, HNS is kind of where I've spent the last 10 years, but even before that, I spent kind of six years in Cleveland doing the same thing.

And before that in Columbus.

Um, but I do think most of these start from, you know, even in our origin story mentioning, oh, I worked at conservation law foundation and we were trying to understand, you know, the role of, you know, shifting types of capital that can go into it.

Right.

Patrick Crowley, president of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, called the decision a big victory for states across the country.

Clean, affordable power, like solar, shouldn't be a luxury, said Alex St-Pierre, vice president for environmental justice at Conservation Law Foundation.

one of the non-profit legal advocacy groups representing the plaintiffs.

In May, for the first time, solar supplied more of the nation's electricity than coal.

Unintentional acts, such as striking an endangered whale with a vessel, would no longer be considered illegal.

Attorney Erica Fuller with Conservation Law Foundation says the policy will likely end up in court.

I mean, this administration has an all-out assault on wildlife and wildlife that the American public deeply cares about.

It's unclear whether the policy changes will immediately apply to North Atlantic right whales because a different agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, manages protections for that critically endangered species.