Senior Litigation Counsel Climate; AG

Position: Senior Litigation Counsel for Climate (AG)
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** department
* * office of the attorney general#
** division
* * legal#
** salary**$ - $#
** job profile
** jc- - senior litigation counsel for climate (ag) (non-union office of attorney general employees)#
** scheduled work days & work hours
** monday - friday, 8:30 - 4:30#
** opening date
** january 6, 2026#
** closing date**#
** job requisition number
** jr100631 senior litigation counsel for climate (ag) (open)#
** pay grade
** u08739 a#
** classification
* * senior litigation counsel for climate (ag)#
** class definition
**** rhode island office of the attorney general
**** senior litigation counsel for climate
**** special assistant attorney general
**** environment and energy unit
**** paygrade – 8739 ($115,284-$133,863)
***** or commensurate with experience
*** the rhode island office of the attorney general is seeking a litigator with extensive state and federal court experience to help lead the office’s environment and energy unit.  The senior litigation counsel will be focused on developing and prosecuting the office’s climate strategy and addressing co-occurring environmental harms across regulatory, administrative, and judicial modalities.  Rhode island has passed a number of innovative climate laws, including the 2021 act on climate, and its geography ensures that climate is at the forefront of securing a just future for all rhode islanders.

This position provides a unique opportunity to utilize the office’s legal tools to fight for climate adaptation, mitigation, and resiliency and to enable the green energy future while centering environmental justice principles to ensure an equitable transition.
** about the office of the attorney general:
** the attorney general is the state’s top lawyer and law enforcement official, protecting and serving the people and interests of rhode island through a broad range of duties. Every day, the office’s attorneys fight to ensure the public safety of the state’s communities, improve the economic security of its citizens, safeguard the state’s spectacular natural resources, and restore the public’s trust in government.

Assistant and special assistant attorneys general represent the people of rhode island in civil and criminal matters before trial courts, appellate courts, and the supreme courts of rhode island and the united states. The office is unique among attorneys general offices across the country. Out of fifty states, only two other offices share the same broad criminal mission. The office’s attorneys prosecute complex and violent crimes but also functionally serve as one of the nation’s largest district attorney’s offices, prosecuting all felonies throughout the state.
** environmental and energy unit:
** the environment and energy unit within the civil division develops and leads high-impact, cutting-edge advocacy efforts in the environment and energy sectors, counsels the attorney general and other government officials on environmental and energy-related issues; performs a range of functions, including litigation, public comment, policy development, and provides oversight with respect to state and federal agencies’ regulatory actions and responsibilities.

From identifying and pursuing landmark civil actions against businesses and individuals that have harmed or threaten to harm the health of rhode islanders and/or the state’s public trust resources, to defending state laws, the unit’s attorneys are at the forefront of matters being litigated before trial courts, appellate courts, and the supreme courts of rhode island and the united states.
** duties and opportunities:
** for this position, a special assistant attorney general will be responsible for developing, leading, and supporting litigation and other initiatives in support of achieving and enforcing 2021 act on climate greenhouse gas reduction mandates and in the many state and other regulatory proceedings stemming from a transition to green energy.  The saag in this position will be responsible for…