Join CPR as Our Climate Adaptation Policy Analyst

Are you interested in ensuring that communities impacted by climate change can effectively adapt to changing conditions and that vulnerable populations will be protected and treated fairly in the process? Do you have a background in the legal and policy issues related to both clean water and climate change adaptation? If so, you should consider applying for the new climate change adaptation policy analyst position at the Center for Progressive Reform!

The focus of this position is climate change adaptation, with special emphasis on environmental justice and the implications of climate change for the Chesapeake Bay. The analyst will join a small team of professional staff and a network of top-notch Member Scholars who are examining these issues and are looking to turn policy into action. Among other things, the analyst will:

Research and promote best practices for adapting to climate change, with special emphasis on protecting socially vulnerable people and communities;
Develop strategies for implementing adaptation justice best practices, with special focus on opportunities to do so in the Chesapeake Bay region;
Write a variety of materials about opportunities to address climate change impacts through progressive adaptation policies; and
Network with Member Scholars, partners, policymakers, and others to provide expertise and promote research findings.

For more information about the position, please download the job announcement. The deadline to apply is June 30, 2016.

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Matt Shudtz | May 25, 2016

Join CPR as Our Climate Adaptation Policy Analyst

Are you interested in ensuring that communities impacted by climate change can effectively adapt to changing conditions and that vulnerable populations will be protected and treated fairly in the process? Do you have a background in the legal and policy issues related to both clean water and climate change adaptation? If so, you should consider […]

Rena Steinzor | May 24, 2016

One Step Forward and Two Steps Back on Toxic Chemicals

This post has also been published on The Huffington Post. Within the next few days, Congress is likely to enact the first update of a major environmental statute in many years. Widely hailed as a bipartisan compromise, legislation to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA, pronounced like the opera Tosca) was made possible by […]

James Goodwin | May 24, 2016

CPR’s Buzbee to Set the Record Straight on WOTUS at Senate Hearing

This afternoon, the Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife Subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will convene a hearing on a topic that is fast becoming the congressional conservative equivalent of talking about the weather: the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Water Rule. With the provocative title of "Erosion of Exemptions and Expansion of […]

Brian Gumm | May 20, 2016

Steinzor in The Environmental Forum: Vital to Prosecute Corporate Bad Actors

With the congressional majority continuing to gut enforcement budgets, forcing federal environmental and workplace safety agencies to cut staff, criminal prosecution of corporate bad actors is more important than ever. That’s the thrust of Center for Progressive Reform Member Scholar Rena Steinzor’s commentary in the May/June issue of The Environmental Forum, the policy journal of […]

Katie Tracy | May 19, 2016

The Silica Standard: A Case Study of Inequality in Worker Health and Safety Standards

Back in March, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) finalized its long-awaited silica standard, requiring employers to reduce workers’ exposure to the toxic, cancer-causing dust so common to construction and fracking sites, among other workplaces. OSHA estimates that the new standard will prevent more than 600 deaths and 900 new cases of silicosis annually. […]

Evan Isaacson | May 18, 2016

Renewed Public Investment in Water Infrastructure Promotes Equality

Clean water: We can't take it for granted, as the people of Flint, Michigan, can attest. And they're not alone. In too many communities across the nation, drinking water fails to meet minimum safety standards, forcing consumers to buy bottled water and avoid the stuff coming out of their taps. We cannot say that we […]

James Goodwin | May 17, 2016

Want to Address Economic Inequality? Strengthen the Regulatory System

The growing problem of economic inequality in the United States continues to draw significant attention – and for good reason. By 2011, America’s top 1 percent owned more than 40 percent of the nation’s wealth, and ours ranks as one of the most unequal economies among developed countries. Meanwhile, the median wage rate for workers […]

Rena Steinzor | May 13, 2016

We Need to Get Back to Work

Originally published on RegBlog by CPR Member Scholar Rena Steinzor. Rulemaking has slowed to a crawl throughout the executive branch. If an agency does not have a statutory mandate to undertake such a brutal and resource-intensive process, the choice to accomplish its mission through any other means will be tempting. Of course, if the policy issues are […]

Mollie Rosenzweig | May 12, 2016

Feds Open Criminal Investigation of Dole Listeria Outbreak

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently launched a criminal investigation of Dole Food Company, continuing a trend of criminal enforcement against those responsible for deadly food safety lapses. The investigation stems from a Listeria outbreak in bagged salad that sickened 33 people, four of whom died. Between September 2015 and January 2016, 33 people […]