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| PIELC Panel Schedule |
| Thursday, February 28 |
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| 4:00 - 5:15 P.M. • PANEL 1 |
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| Climate Standing After Mass. v. EPA: Precedent, Pitfalls, and Pointers |
EMU Fir |
| Return of Jaguars to the American Southwest |
EMU Walnut |
| Motorized Public Lands: Fighting to Get Off the Road to Destruction |
EMU Maple |
| Public Lands No More? |
EMU Ben Linder |
| Environmental Laws and Law Practice of the Future – Some Truly Creative Speculating by Profs & Practicing Lawyers |
EMU Metolius |
| Land, Climate Justice, and Wildlife Conservation in Africa |
EMU Oak |
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| 6:00 – 8:15 P.M. • KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
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| Speakers |
Location |
| Ed Whitelaw and Nnimmo Bassey |
EMU Ballroom |
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| Friday, March 1 |
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| 9:00 – 10:15 A.M. • PANEL 2 |
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| Topic |
Location |
| CLIMATE CRISIS: Affluence, Materialism & Survival |
EMU Fir |
| Food Sovereignty as a Legal Concept |
EMU Walnut |
| The Clean Water Act on its 40th Birthday and the Supreme Court |
EMU Ben Linder |
| O&C Panel: Privatizing Public Forestlands? |
EMU Maple |
| Concerns about Coal Around the World |
EMU Metolius |
| Staking Your Claim: Challenging the New Mining Boom |
EMU Owyhee |
| Using Benefit-Cost Analysis in Superfund Remediation |
EMU Rogue |
| LNG Exports in Oregon: Proposals to Ship Gas to Asia |
EMU Umpqua |
| Endangered Species Act as a Pesticide Reform Tool |
EMU Oak |
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| 10:30 – 11:45 A.M. • PANEL 3 |
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| Topic |
Location |
| Building a Sustainable, Community-Oriented Food System |
EMU Walnut |
| Litigation and Media Synergy - Uranium Experience |
EMU Ben Linder |
| Nutrient Credit Trading & the Clean Water Act: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? |
EMU Metolius |
| Participating in the Market Without Sacrificing Your Ethics |
EMU Owyhee |
| The Federal Tax Deductibility of Gifts of Water Rights |
EMU Umpqua |
| Improving Air Quality in National Parks and Wilderness Areas |
EMU Oak |
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| 10:30 A.M. – 12:15 P.M. • WORKSHOP 1 |
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| Topic |
Location |
| Navigating the Criminal Courts: A Workshop for Activists & Attorneys |
EMU Fir |
| Collaboration for Environmental Advocates: When, How and Why |
EMU Maple |
| Burning Issues with Biomass and Biofuels |
EMU Rogue |
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| 12:30 – 2:15 P.M. • KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
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| Speakers |
Location |
| Caleb Behn and Thuli Brilliance Makama |
EMU Ballroom |
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| 2:30 – 3:45 P.M. • PANEL 4 |
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| Topic |
Location |
| Extractives in Africa - At What Cost? |
EMU Fir |
| Tackling the Root of the Problem: Taking on Coal Mining in the American West |
EMU Ben Linder |
| Return of the Missing Lynx: Helping a Formerly Banished Wildcat Reclaim its Birthright in the West |
EMU Maple |
| Student Loan Repayment for Public Interest Lawyers |
EMU Metolius |
| Ten Common Mistakes to Avoid in Environmental Advocacy |
EMU Rogue |
| Should Environmental Groups Promote Logging to Restore Forests? |
EMU Oak |
| Law, Economics, and the Inescapable Consequences of Scarce Groundwater |
LAW 110 |
| Lawyers as Campaigners: Non-Legal Skills that Help Win Cases |
LAW 141 |
| Elk Creek Restoration Collaborative |
LAW 142 |
| Stopping Tar Sands: Avoiding Climate and Environmental Disaster |
LAW 175 |
| Advocacy and Litigation Through Administrative Petitions |
LAW 184 |
| Sustainable Transportation Alternatives: How to Stop Building New Roads |
LAW 241 |
| BOOK DISCUSSION: The Snail Darter & the Dam: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River |
LAW 242 |
| Environmental Collaborative Governance: A Roundtable Discussion of the Practice, Its Payoffs, Pitfalls, and Prospects |
LAW 243 |
| Constitutional Environmental Rights |
LAW 281 |
| Sea Level Rise and Habitat Protection |
Many Nations Longhouse |
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| 4:00 – 5:15 P.M. • PANEL 5 |
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| Topic |
Location |
| Wolverines and the Endangered Species Act |
EMU Fir |
| EPA, Environmental Justice and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act |
EMU Walnut |
| Preserving Citizen Enforcement of Environmental Laws |
EMU Ben Linder |
| Factory Farm Year in Review |
EMU Maple |
| Real World Applications of Ecosystem-Based Management to Ocean and Coastal Challenges |
EMU Metolius |
| Looking Back for the Future: Why Traditional Environmental Law is Still Relevant |
EMU Oak |
| Beating Coal |
LAW 110 |
| Environmental Sustainability and Justice -- South and North |
LAW 141 |
| How to be an Activist Attorney |
LAW 142 |
| Legal and Policy Changes to the Northwest Forest Plan |
LAW 175 |
| Mining Impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean |
LAW 184 |
| Shutting Down Nuclear Plants |
LAW 241 |
| The BIGGEST Ticket for Restoring Public Lands in the Face of Climate Change: Curbing Livestock Grazing |
LAW 242 |
| Social Media and Environmental Law |
LAW 243 |
| Preserving Wild Salmon in the Face of Hatcheries |
Many Nations Longhouse |
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| 5:30 – 7:15 P.M. • KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
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| Speakers |
Location |
| Jim Gerritsen and John C. Cruden |
EMU Ballroom |
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| Saturday, March 2 |
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| 8:15 – 10:15 A.M. • ETHICS WORKSHOP |
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Location |
| Ethics Workshop |
LAW 175 |
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| 10:30 – 11:15 A.M. • WORKSHOP 2 |
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Location |
| REVISED – Move to Amend: A New Constitution for a New Society and Ecology (This workshop has been moved to Sunday at 10:30 AM and has been shortened to 75 minutes) |
LAW 241 |
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| 9:00 – 10:15 • PANEL 6 |
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Location |
| Keep Nestlé Out of the Gorge: Legal and Campaign Update |
EMU Fir |
| Little Fish, Big Deal |
EMU Ben Linder |
| Unpaving Paradise: Fighting Freeways Through Advocacy, Organizing, and Litigation |
EMU Maple |
| Unsustainable Energy Development & Infrastructure Challenges |
EMU Alsea |
| CGS: Last Nuclear Plant standing in the Pacific Northwest |
EMU Metolius |
| Why We Should Ditch the Ditch Bill: Wilderness Dams and the Impact of Easements |
EMU Oak |
| Galvanizing Today’s Youth: Law Students Teaching Environmental Law to Undergraduate & High School Students |
LAW 110 |
| Utility Regulation and the Fight Against Coal |
LAW 141 |
| Is it Really Legal to Poison Our Forests? |
LAW 142 |
| Frontlines Activist Defense Updates |
LAW 241 |
| Here’s Your Future: Building Goals for Environmental Law and Policy |
LAW 243 |
| Protecting the Human Right to Water: A Global Perspective |
Many Nations Longhouse |
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| 10:30 – 11:45 A.M. • PANEL 7 |
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Location |
| What’s In Your Compost, Food, and Forests? |
EMU Fir |
| Offshore Oil Leasing—Slowing the Rush to Drill |
EMU Walnut |
| Rethinking Forest Health |
EMU Ben Linder |
| Media Matters: The Press and Public Interest Initiatives |
EMU Maple |
| Underwriters Underwater |
EMU Alsea |
| Getting Down in the Weeds with Oregon Wetlands Regulations |
EMU Metolius |
| Whistleblowers in the Nuclear Age: Supporting Agents of Change |
EMU Rogue |
| Using Courts to Protect America’s Last Red Wolves |
EMU Oak |
| Current Issues in Chinese Environmental Law and Policy: Part I |
LAW 110 |
| Transitioning From Fossil Fuels |
LAW 141 |
| Legal Challenges to Biological Opinions under the Endangered Species Act |
LAW 142 |
| Protecting Communities From The Impacts of Oil Drilling and Hydraulic Fracturing |
LAW 175 |
| Animal Factories & Antibiotic Resistance: What’s at Stake and What’s Being Done to Turn the Tide? |
LAW 184 |
| False Claims Acts: Another Tool for Environmental Lawyers |
LAW 241 |
| What Lawyers and Activists Need to Know About Grand Juries |
LAW 242 |
| Sea Level Rise -- Addressing Potential Impacts with Local Solutions |
LAW 243 |
| Forests and Protected Areas Under Threat: International Perspectives |
LAW 281 |
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| 12:15 – 2:15 P.M. • KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
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| Speakers |
Location |
| Hilton Kelley and Thomas Linzey |
EMU Ballroom |
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| 2:30 – 3:45 P.M. • PANEL 8 |
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| Topic |
Location |
| Eliminating Corporate Rights and Driving the Rights of Nature into Law |
EMU Fir |
| Pro Se and Proud! People Without Attorneys Going to Court to Enforce Public Interest Laws |
EMU Ben Linder |
| Successful Wolf Recovery in the West: The Rationales to Maintain Federal Protections |
EMU Maple |
| CAFO: Too Big To Succeed |
EMU Alsea |
| Suction Dredge Mining and Endangered Salmon |
EMU Metolius |
| Less than Equal? Congress’ Efforts to Deny Fee Recoveries under the Equal Access to Justice Act |
EMU Rogue |
| Coal Ash: A Toxic Gift to Future Generations, or the Achilles Heel of the Coal Industry? |
EMU Umpqua |
| It’s Still Chinatown: Groundwater Mining in the West |
EMU Oak |
| Ocean Acidification |
LAW 110 |
| The Hidden Costs of Electricity: Why All of the Above Won’t Work |
LAW 141 |
| Tar Sands Blockade: All the Tools in the ToolBox |
LAW 142 |
| The 2012 National Forest Management Act Planning Rule |
LAW 175 |
| Finding Space for Wave Energy in Oregon: A Marine Spatial Planning Update |
LAW 184 |
| Restoring Celilo Falls |
LAW 241 |
| Citizen’s Toolkit for Confronting the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex in the 21st Century |
LAW 242 |
| Understanding Campaign Finance Reform: Public Perceptions, Legal Background, and the Path Forward |
LAW 243 |
| Oil and Gas Development Spills into New Frontiers |
LAW 281 |
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| 4:00 – 5:15 P.M. • PANEL 9 |
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Location |
| CEQA Year-in-Review |
EMU Walnut |
| Clean Air Act Year-in-Review |
EMU Maple |
| Reassessing Risk: The Future of Dispersants in Oil Spill Response |
EMU Metolius |
| Threats to Coastal Ecosystems |
EMU Oak |
| ESA Section 9 Take Cases - Updates and Case Studies |
LAW 110 |
| Litigation and Negotiation: Solution-Oriented Strategies for Natural Resource Conflicts |
LAW 141 |
| Establishing Oregon’s System of Marine Reserves |
LAW 142 |
| FILM: Who Bombed Judi Bari? |
LAW 175 |
| Climate Advocacy and the TRUST Campaign |
LAW 184 |
| Talking to the Media: How to Get Your Story in the News |
LAW 241 |
| Citizen Use of Public Records Laws |
LAW 242 |
| Closing the Loop: Post-Logging Monitoring for Forest Defense |
LAW 243 |
| Cities, Agriculture, and the Destruction of the Earth |
LAW 281 |
| Current Issues in Chinese Environmental Law and Policy: Part II |
HEDCO Education Building |
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| 4:00 – 5:45 P.M. • WORKSHOP 3 |
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Location |
| No More Pleading for Environmental Protection: What Local Communities Are Already Doing to Protect Their Local Environment, and Rein in Corporate Power |
EMU Fir |
| Using Experts Effectively |
EMU Ben Linder |
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| Sunday, March 3 |
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| 9:00 – 10:15 A.M. • PANEL 10 |
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| Topic |
Location |
| Cascadian Bioregionalism and the Indigenous Future |
LAW 110 |
| Frost Protection and the ESA |
LAW 142 |
| Contagion and Extinction |
LAW 141 |
| The Elliott State Forest: How NGOs and the Grassroots are Winning |
LAW 175 |
| Local Climate Change Law |
LAW 184 |
| NEW – Implementing Market-Based Climate Policies |
LAW 243 |
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| 10:30 – 11:45 A.M. • PANEL 11 |
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Location |
| Wolves in the Far West: A legal and biological update of wolves in Washington, Oregon, California, and Mexican Wolves |
LAW 110 |
| Without Further Delay: Reducing Climate Pollution under Existing |
LAW 142 |
| Deep Green Resistance |
LAW 141 |
| FILM: U.S. debut of “Unfair Game: The Politics of Poaching” a film by John Antonelli |
LAW 175 |
| Dead Trees, Bugs, and Wildlife: Make Healthy Forest Ecosystems |
LAW 184 |
| NEW – Regulation of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: Species Impacts, Specific Failures, and Ways to Move Forward |
LAW 242 |
REVISED – Move to Amend: A New Constitution for a New Society and Ecology (This workshop was moved from the Workshop 2 time slot and has been shortened to 75 minutes)
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LAW 241
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NEW – Green Building and Smart Growth Initiatives
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LAW 243
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| 12:30 – 2:15 P.M. • KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
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| Speakers |
Location |
| Eshe Sherley, Ashley Funk, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, and Gerald Torres |
LAW 175 |
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