Kate Sinding Daly
Senior Vice President for Law & Policy | Maine | She/Her
Kate Sinding Daly is Senior Vice President for Law and Policy at the Conservation Law Foundation. She was previously the inaugural executive director of NorthLight Foundation, which focuses on advancing equitable and enduring solutions for environmental and human health. She spent about a decade at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), first as a senior attorney and deputy director of NRDC’s New York program, and later as senior advisor to the president. Before she joined NRDC in 2006, she was a partner in the specialty environmental law firm of Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. Kate is a graduate of New York University School of Law, the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and Barnard College.
Recent Posts
May 7 2025
The Trump administration is recklessly propelling the nation backward, especially when it comes to the environment. That’s why it came as no surprise when it recently issued yet another of its ill-conceived executive orders, this one directing the Department of Justice to challenge state laws aimed at cutting carbon pollution and promoting clean energy. …
Mar 10 2025
This is part of an occasional series examining how the Trump administration may alter environmental laws. Update: March 10Unfortunately, barely a month into the Trump administration, many of these predictions have come to pass. President Trump has ordered massive layoffs at the EPA and NOAA, letting go hardworking public servants with little warning and less justification. “DOGE”…
Dec 19 2024
This is part of an occasional series examining how the Trump administration may alter environmental laws that could impact the climate crisis. Update March 7: So far, President Trump has shown a willingness, if not a downright zeal, in flagrantly breaking laws and violating the Constitution. He has frozen billions of dollars’ worth of funding…
Nov 12 2024
Updated – November 12, 2024 Although Donald Trump disavowed Project 2025 on the campaign trail, since his re-election, his closest allies are now admitting what we knew all along – Project 2025 is the agenda for the next four years, and they can’t wait to get started. We can’t say we’ve been here before because, truthfully,…
Apr 25 2024
This month, for the first time, the federal government announced it would require municipal water systems to remove six synthetic chemicals from the tap water that hundreds of millions of us drink. The new rule by the Environmental Protection Agency is consequential and a long time coming. It’s also not enough. For years, we’ve known…
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