Elena Mihaly is the Vice President and Director of CLF Vermont. Having joined CLF in 2013, Elena leads advocacy initiatives in Vermont related to climate, water quality, public health, and environmental justice. Her past successes include fighting for stronger water quality protections for Lake Champlain under EPA’s TMDL clean-up plan, working to protect children from lead poisoning in school and child care center drinking water, and helping secure Vermont’s first Environmental Justice Law.
Elena has been with CLF since 2013, first as a Legal Fellow and then as a Staff Attorney and a Senior Attorney before stepping into her current leadership role in 2021. She holds a J.D. and Masters in Environmental Law and Policy from Vermont Law and Graduate School, and a B.A. in Environmental Science from Colorado College. Elena is admitted to practice in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and several federal courts.
Elena lives in Vermont with her husband, two young kids, and their old cattle dog, where together they enjoy adventuring in the woods, growing food, and watching abundant local wildlife in the woods and fields around their home.
Recent Posts
May 12 2023
An earlier version of this blog was published on April 19, 2023. Good news, Vermont: The Affordable Heat Act has been signed into law. This new piece of legislation will put Vermont on a path toward slashing polluting emissions from our buildings and cleaning up Vermont’s heating fuel supply. With your support, we convinced the…
Apr 19 2023
This piece was originally published in the Times Argus. The good news/bad news summary of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: There is still time to save ourselves, but we must act now. This is a call to action we cannot afford to ignore. In its report, the U.N. panel indicates…
Aug 25 2022
The Problem Last year, GlobalFoundries and Vermont Governor Phil Scott’s administration asked the state’s Public Utility Commission to let the company become what it called a “self-managed utility:” an illegal entity exempt from Vermont’s most important climate laws. That would mean GlobalFoundries could stop purchasing renewable energy and instead buy energy from wherever it wanted…
Apr 8 2022
Over the last several years, Vermont’s farmers have made tremendous progress in cutting dangerous phosphorus pollution from their properties. Their efforts are critical to clean water in Vermont because that pollution causes toxic algae outbreaks that harm our waterways and threaten our health. But a longstanding turf war between two state agencies puts that progress…
Jun 24 2020
UPDATE: Vermont is once again caught in the midst of a blinding heatwave. Our state has never been this hot for this long in June – and it’s not letting up. From Maine to the Arctic Circle and around the globe, regions that typically don’t experience this type of heat are breaking temperature records. Like…
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