Ed Merta is a third year law student at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, specializing in climate change and renewable energy law. This summer he worked on climate and energy issues for Western Resource Advocates, a nonprofit promoting sustainable energy, land, and water policy and law in the interior West. He has a masters degree in U.S. history (and “ABD”) from Harvard University, where he specialized in recent U.S. politics and foreign relations. Ed also worked for two years as a graduate student national security policy analyst at Los Alamos National Laboratory.