Kate Sinding Daly
Senior Vice President for Law & Policy | CLF 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
Dec 19 2024
This is part of an occasional series examining how the Trump administration may alter environmental laws. In 2022, President Biden signed legislation making the most significant investments in clean energy and climate action this country has ever seen. The Inflation Reduction Act spent billions on solar and electric vehicle manufacturing, creating hundreds of thousands of…
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…
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
Update: Unfortunately, National Grid has decided to end this project. CLF will continue to look for and watchdog future, regional transmission initiatives that can bolster clean energy. 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…
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