30th Fall Conference
September 21-24, 2022 | Nashville, TN
Southwest Virginia—An Environmental Justice Region Ripe for Brownfield Solar Redevelopment
Josephus Allmond, Associate Attorney, southern Environmenal Law Center, Charlottesville, VA
The Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources recognizes authors of the “Best Papers” prepared for each major Section CLE conference. Congratulations to our authors.
Southwest Virginia—An Environmental Justice Region Ripe for Brownfield Solar Redevelopment
Josephus Allmond, Associate Attorney, southern Environmenal Law Center, Charlottesville, VA
California’s Approach to Co-Management of Natural Resources with California Native American Tribes
Merri Lopez-Keifer, Director, Office of Native American Affairs, Office of Attorney General, Sacramento, CA
Florida’s Assumption of Wetlands Permitting: Raising the Stakes by Lowering the Bar
Jaclyn Lopez, Center for Biological Diversity, St. Petersburg, FL
Congratulations to the panelists of “Superfund: Redevelopment “In Situ”: How to Support Local Communities During a Brownfields Cleanup,” the collective recipients of the Best Paper Award. Rita Bolt Barker, Frank Gardner, Vernice Miller-Travis, and Clifford Villa’s paper submissions were selected in recognition of the thoughtful and effective way that they blended law, history and personal experience to drive home the importance of community engagement in the redevelopment process.
Legislative Approaches to PFAS chemicals in the 116th Congress
Melanie Benesh, Environmental Working Group, Washington D.C.
Clean Water Act Section 401: Balancing States’ Rights and the Nation’s Need for Energy Infrastructure
Deidre G. Duncan and Clare Ellis Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA
Disasters and Environmental Regulation
Robert R.M. Verchick, Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar and Chair in Environmental Law, Senior Fellow, Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy, Tulane University, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, New Orleans, LA and Kaitlin Brockett, Class of 2020, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
There is No Free Lunch: The Endangered Species Act, The Public-Trust Doctrine and The Takings Clause
David Aladjem, Downey Brand LLP, Sacramento, CA
Tribes, Courts & Consultation
Hilary Tompkins, Hogan Lovells, Washington, DC
Beyond Dakota Access Pipeline: Why Embracing Tribal Consultation Makes Sense for the Energy Industry
Troy A. Eid, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Denver, CO