Kate Sinding Daly
Senior Vice President, Law & Policy | CLF Maine
Kate Sinding Daly is Senior Vice President of 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 Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Barnard College.
Recent Posts
Jan 29 2024
In the early days of 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases that, on their face, seemed a simple matter of fishing. However, the cases Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. v. Department of Commerce were about much more than the narrow question of whether the government can require…
Dec 13 2023
In late October, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $1.3 billion in support for clean energy projects across the country. That money will fund three electricity transmission projects intended to boost clean energy across six states. One of the projects receiving funding is proposed for here in New England. The Twin States Clean…
Oct 11 2023
From coast to coast and across the globe, it is clear from the weather events of the past year that climate change is here – and it presents the most pressing environmental threat of our time. Storms keep getting worse, heat waves more devastating, cold snaps more chilling. Through my work at CLF, I’m fighting…
Jul 12 2023
Torrential rains. Devastating floods. Hazy smoke from Canadian wildfires. One of the most prolonged heatwaves on record in the Southwest. This summer has been nothing if not a summer of cataclysmic news about catastrophic weather events. Here in New England, Vermonters are grappling with the destruction wrought by powerful floods rivaling those following Hurricane…
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