About Carly Nairn
Carly Nairn is a journalist based in San Francisco. Her work has been published with National Geographic, Yes! Magazine, and Mongabay, among others.
Articles written by Carly Nairn
What the Inflation Reduction Act Means for the Environment, the Law, and the Future
Environmental law attorney and policy expert Jennifer Hernandez assesses one of 2022’s most significant pieces of legislationAccording to the legislation’s sponsors, The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was a big step for U.S. climate change policy. It brings almost $370 billion to clean energy and climate investment, and is estimated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 40% by 2030. It heralds a turn toward electric transportation and funnels money into sustainable energy projects through tax incentives, grants and other funding. It takes an environmental policy expert to dissect it further, so we …
Stepping Out
Amanda Alexander’s path to law started with confronting bullies on a school busYears ago on an elementary school bus in Kokomo, Mississippi, several older children were taunting a student with disabilities, so Amanda Alexander confronted the bullies—physically placing herself between them and their target. “I was small and petite then,” she says, “but I would often advocate for this child.” After telling her mother about the experience, and crying over how frustrated she felt, she considered the people her mother listed off who might help resolve the issue: the …
A Gun in the Courtroom and the Attorney Who Sounded the Alarm
Talking with Lauren Varnado about the much-publicized ordealIn March, Lauren Varnado was defending the Pittsburgh-based EQT Corporation in a New Martinsville, West Virginia, courtroom when presiding Circuit Court Judge David W. Hummel Jr. pulled out a Colt .45 pistol from a shoulder holster underneath his robe and set it on his bench. The Michelman & Robinson managing partner then filed a report with the FBI and decided to go public about the experience. The situation received ample press attention as an investigation ensued by the Judicial …
Bonkers Thus Far: The Impact of Minnesota’s New THC Law
A Q&A with Jason Tarasek, a cannabis lawyer who helped launch the bill, reflects on its unlikely passage and what it means for the futureSuper Lawyers: First off, can you just give me a brief synopsis of the new Minnesota law that went into effect July 1, and how it came to pass? Jason Tarasek: Yeah. I was actively lobbying for this bill. We started talking about it late in 2021. It initially started out as a bill that was aimed to fix kind of a loophole in the law that when the legislature legalized hemp and hemp derivatives through statute in 2018, they didn’t take hemp-derived THC and trace amounts off our state’s …
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