Dena Adler
Senior Attorney
Dena Adler is a Senior Attorney at Policy Integrity. She works on issues of federal environmental regulation with a focus on air quality, power plants, and climate resilience.
Prior to joining Policy Integrity, she was an attorney with the clean air team at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in Washington, D.C. At EDF, she worked to defend climate and clean air protections from Trump-era regulatory rollbacks and advance future protections essential to safeguarding public health and the environment. Her portfolio included work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector, protect communities from toxic air pollution, and uphold the use of the best available science in the regulatory process. Previously, she served as a climate law fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. At the Sabin Center, she researched climate litigation trends and worked to develop legal and regulatory tools to increase climate resilience and advance efforts to adapt to a changing climate.
Dena earned her J.D. from Yale Law School and a Masters of Environmental Management from Yale School of the Environment. Dena received her B.A. magna cum laude from Brown University with honors in Environmental Studies.
She can be reached at [email protected].
Dena is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and the District of Columbia.
Reports
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Within Its Wheelhouse
EPA’s Latest Power Plant Regulations Rely on Traditional Approaches Left Available After West Virginia v. EPA
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Defining “Adequately Demonstrated”
EPA’s Long History of Forward-Looking Standards Under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act
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Hydrogen Co-Firing and the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Limits for Power Plants
Policy Strategies for Meaningful Emission Reductions
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Reducing Pollution Without Sacrificing Reliability
A Breakdown of the Respective Roles that FERC, EPA, and State Regulators Play to Support a Cleaner & More Reliable Electric Grid
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Procedural Equity at Public Utility Commissions
Developing a Baseline Assessment of Barriers and Opportunities