"Making Environmental Law Great Again: Defending the Trump Administration’s Energy and Environmental Agenda in the Federal Appellate Courts Eric Grant, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Environment & Natural Resources Division of the USDOJ Eric Grant currently serves as a non-career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, he supervises the Division’s appellate and Indian-related litigation, including personally arguing in federal courts of appeals and district courts around the country and contributing to the Solicitor General’s filings in the Supreme Court. Mr. Grant obtained his undergraduate degree in economics in 1986 and his law degree in 1990, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Following law school, Mr. Grant served as a law clerk to Judge Edith H. Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Houston, Texas. During the Supreme Court’s October 1994 Term, he served as a law clerk to both Retired Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. During the remainder of his 30-year legal career, Mr. Grant has worked as a line attorney in DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel and at the Pacific Legal Foundation, as an associate in an international law firm, as a solo practitioner, and as head of the Sacramento office of a Houston law firm. He has briefed and argued cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, and numerous other federal and state appellate courts.