Earth Day's Legacy: Rebuilding Environmental Governance for the 21st Century

Earth Day's Legacy: Rebuilding Environmental Governance for the 21st Century [email protected] Wed, 04/22/2026 - 14:55 Wednesday, April 22, 2026 Fifty-six years ago, the first Earth Day helped spark a generation of landmark environmental legislation — and the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) was born from that same moment. On this Earth Day 2026, host Sebastian Duque Rios sits down with ELI President Jordan Diamond and Senior Attorney Jay Austin to trace the arc of environmental law from that founding era to the compounding crises of today.