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Author: Hayley Martinez5

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Hayley Martinez is a Program Manager in the Executive Director’s Office at the Earth Institute, where she supports operations and writes and researches on a number of topics related to sustainability policy. She previously worked as a project assistant at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for the Climate Change Adaptation Program. Hayley has an MPH in Environmental Health Policy from Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, and a BS in Psychobiology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
  • The Politics of Fracking: Polarization in New York State

    The Politics of Fracking: Polarization in New York State

    While public opinion is fairly skewed against the fracking process, policy actors in New York State can best be described as polarized. Predictably, the pro-fracking group generally disagrees with environmental groups while the anti-fracking group generally disagrees with the oil industry. Policy actors in New York had stark differences in answers on a wide variety…

  • How Can Federal and City Governments Cooperate? The Case of Green Infrastructure

    How Can Federal and City Governments Cooperate? The Case of Green Infrastructure

    With support from the Earth Institute, writers Caswell Holloway, Carter Strickland, Michael Gerrard, and Daniel Firger recently published “Solving the CSO Conundrum: Green Infrastructure and the Unfulfilled Promise of Federal-Municipal Cooperation” in Harvard Environmental Law Review. The authors propose regulatory and policy reform to develop comprehensive, locally led infrastructure and sustainability initiatives that improve public…

  • The Politics of Fracking: Polarization in New York State

    The Politics of Fracking: Polarization in New York State

    While public opinion is fairly skewed against the fracking process, policy actors in New York State can best be described as polarized. Predictably, the pro-fracking group generally disagrees with environmental groups while the anti-fracking group generally disagrees with the oil industry. Policy actors in New York had stark differences in answers on a wide variety…

  • How Can Federal and City Governments Cooperate? The Case of Green Infrastructure

    How Can Federal and City Governments Cooperate? The Case of Green Infrastructure

    With support from the Earth Institute, writers Caswell Holloway, Carter Strickland, Michael Gerrard, and Daniel Firger recently published “Solving the CSO Conundrum: Green Infrastructure and the Unfulfilled Promise of Federal-Municipal Cooperation” in Harvard Environmental Law Review. The authors propose regulatory and policy reform to develop comprehensive, locally led infrastructure and sustainability initiatives that improve public…