Wednesday, September 29, 2010

2nd draft schedule

Hey this is really like the 4th draft but its the second on this page!


Sat
8-8:45 registration and coffee.
9-10:10 panels

"Lawyering For Environmental Justice: The Broadform Deed and Beyond."

Professor Dean Hill Rivkin, Esq., University of Tennessee College of Law

The Clean Water Act's Section 404: Defending Wetlands and Fighting the Army Corps of Engineers in the New Orleans District

Leigh Haynie, Esq. Clean Water Attorney

Collecting Environmental Quality Field Data: Air and Water Quality Sampling

Matt Landon, United Mountain Defense


10:20-11:30 panels

Casting the Ring into the Fire: Our Obligation to Relinquish Greenhouse Powers

Dr. John Nolt

The Tennessee Water Quality Act's Section 118(a): Permits, Appeals, and Citizen Enforcement

Brian Paddock, Esq. Clean Water Attorney

Mary Mastin, Esq. Clean Water Attorney

Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Dave Cooper

11:40-12:10 keynote

12:10-1:45 lunch
1:45-3pm panels

The Endangered Species Act: The Many Routes to Protecting Southeastern Species and Habitat through the ESA

Tierra Curry, Conservation Biologist, Center for Biological Diversity
Bill Eubanks, Esq. ESA Attorney with Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal


The Clean Air Act: Protecting National Parks and other Class I Areas through the Regional Haze Program

Stephanie Kodish, National Parks Conservation Association

Getting SLAPPed by Massey: King of MTR Coal, Massey Energy is using Court Orders and Discovery Motions to intimidate a movement espousing reasonable dissent.

3:10-4:20 panels

Lands Unsuitable for Mining: Past, Present, and Future

Mary Varson Cromer,
Stephen A. Sanders Director of Appalachian Citizen's Law Center in Whitesburg, KY.

Using historical ecological data in litigation & the administrative process to influence public lands management in the South

Jim Scheff, Forest Watch Coordinator, Kentucky Heartwood and Forest Ecology M.S. Candidate, Eastern Kentucky University
Davis Mounger, Council Member, Heartwood

Leveraging Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Influence Environmental Law and Policy and Strengthen Organization Capacity

Jovian Sackett, GIS Analyst, Southern Environmental Law Center

4:30-5:45 caucuses
6pm dinner
6:30 speaker
7pm movie . . . . .DEEP DOWN PRESENTED BY PRODUCERS!

NATIONAL PBS BROADCAST/ INDEPENDENT LENS**

We've just learned that Deep Down, which as most of you know was funded by the Independent Television Service (ITVS), has been selected for the 2010-2011 slate of Independent Lens

Sunday
10:20-11:10 panels

Strategies for a Win for the Environment - Case studies on legal and
other tactics.

Mary Mastin is a lawyer and Board Secretary for the Tennessee Environmental Council.

Ecological Economics: Protecting Wild Nature through Economic Analysis

Karyn Moskowitz, Economist, Greenfire Consulting
Mick Harrison, Esq., Greenfire Consulting

Rulings from the High Court: What Remedies Are Available to Environmental Plaintiffs After Winter and Monsanto

Bill Eubanks, Esq. Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal


11:20-12:30 panels

The Precautionary Principle: Choosing the Safe Route through Alternatives Analysis in NEPA and Beyond (Case Studies in Chemical Weapons Disposal and Power Plant Regulation)

Craig Willaims, Goldman Environmental Prize Winner & President, Kentucky Environmental Foundation
Elizabeth Crowe, Executive Director, Kentucky Environmental Foundation
Robert Ukeiley, Esq. Clean Air Attorney

Fighting Biomass Incinerators

Mick Harrison, Esq., Greenfire Consulting
Karyn Moskowitz, Economist, Greenfire Consulting


12:35-1pm evals and goodbye!
1pm short interest meeting for next years apiel.

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