Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Finalized schedule

Yo these workshops are final in terms of time. We have them all CLE approved.

3 more workshops may be added but they will be non-CLE community activist workshops.

Thank you to everyone who worked this out.


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Saturday, November 20, 2010


8:00-8:45am Registration and coffee.


9:00-10:00am Panels


Lawyering For Environmental Justice: The Broadform Deed and Beyond


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


The Clean Water Act's Section 404 & Section 402


Leigh Haynie, Esq. Clean Water Attorney
Stephanie Matheny, Esq. Tennessee Clean Water Network


Collecting Environmental Quality Field Data: Air and Water Quality Sampling

Matt Landon, United Mountain Defense

10:20-11:20am Panels


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

Dr. John Nolt


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 Williams is Goldman Prize Recipient and Director of the Chemical Weapons Working Group.
Elizabeth Crowe, Executive Director, Kentucky Environmental Foundation
Robert Ukeiley, Esq. Clean Air Attorney


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


11:40am - 12:10pm Keynote


12:10-1:45pm Lunch


2:00-3:00pm 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, Esq. 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.

David Dawson, Esq.
Larry Hildes, Esq.
Roger Foreman, Esq.


Ecological Economics: Protecting Wild Nature through Economic Analysis

Karyn Moskowitz, MBA, Economist, Greenfire Consulting
Mick Harrison, Esq., Greenfire Consulting
Christine Glaser, Ph.D., Greenfire Consulting

3:10-4:10pm Panels

Lands Unsuitable for Mining: Past, Present, and Future

Mary Varson Cromer, Esq.  Appalachian Citizen's Law Center
Stephen A. Sanders, Esq.  Director of Appalachian Citizen's Law Center
Deborah M. Murray, Esq.  Southern Environmental Law Center.


Uses of Ecological & Historical Data in Administrative and Legal Challenges to National Forest Management"

DJ Gerken, Esq. Southern Environmental Law Center
Jim Scheff, Forest Watch Coordinator, Kentucky Heartwood and Forest Ecology M.S. Candidate, Eastern Kentucky University
Davis Mounger, Council Member, Heartwood


Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Dave Cooper, Campaigner for the Mountains


4:30-5:45pm Caucuses

6:00pm Dinner

6:30pm Speaker

7:00pm Movie . . . . .COAL COUNTRY DOCUMENTRY PRESENTED BY PRODUCER!


Sunday, November 21, 2010


10:00 - 11:00am Panels


Dirty Low-Down: The Sinking of Our Land, Water, Homes, and Hearts with Longwall Coal Mining

Aimee Erickson, Executive Director, Citizens Coal Council
Joyce Blumenshine, Illinois Sierra Club Mining Issues Committee Chair
Attorney Michael V. Nixon, CCC Board member


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

Bill Eubanks, Esq. Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal


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

Mary Mastin, Esq. Board Secretary for the Tennessee Environmental Council.

11:20-12:20 Panels


Fighting Biomass Incinerators

Mick Harrison, Esq., Greenfire Consulting
Karyn Moskowitz, Economist, Greenfire Consulting
Christine Glaser, Ph.D., Greenfire Consulting


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

Jovian Sackett, GIS Analyst, Southern Environmental Law Center


Community Empowerment Law: Using Litigation and Lawyers as a Tool to Support
Community Organizing and Empowerment

Stephanie Tyree, Coordinator, OVEC Sludge Safety Project
Mary Varson Cromer, Esq. Appalachian Citizens' Law Center


12:35-1:00pm Evaluations and goodbye!


1:00pm Short interest meeting for next year's apiel conference

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

draft 4 schedule

Hey this is our 4th draft of the schedule with new workshops and stuff. THIS IS NOT THE FINAL DRAFT. The website is a far better place for finalized info www.apiel.org

The blog is a work in progress. We hope to have the final schedule up by Friday. Here is 4th draft.


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
John Rosenberg

The Clean Water Act's Section 404 & Section 402
Leigh Haynie, Esq. Clean Water Attorney
Stephanie Matheny, Esq. Tennessee Clean Water Network

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

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

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.

David Dawson, Esq.
Larry Hildes, Esq.
Roger Foreman, Esq.

"Dirty Low-Down: The Sinking of Our Land, Water, Homes, and Hearts with Longwall Coal Mining." 

Aimee Erickson Executive Director
Citizens Coal Council

3:10-4:20 panels

Lands Unsuitable for Mining: Past, Present, and Future

Mary Varson Cromer, Staff Attorney, Appalachian Citizen's Law Center
Stephen A. Sanders, Director of Appalachian Citizen's Law Center

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

DJ Gerken, Senior Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center
Jim Scheff, Forest Watch Coordinator, Kentucky Heartwood and Forest Ecology M.S. Candidate, Eastern Kentucky University
Davis Mounger, Council Member, Heartwood

Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Dave Cooper

4:30-5:45 caucuses
6pm dinner
6:30 speaker
7pm movie . . . . .COAL COUNTRY DOCUMENTRY PRESENTED BY PRODUCER!

Sunday
10:20-11:10 panels

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

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.


11:20-12:30 panels

Fighting Biomass Incinerators

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

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

Jovian Sackett, GIS Analyst, Southern Environmental Law Center


Community Empowerment Law: Using Litigation and Lawyers as a Tool to Support
Community Organizing and Empowerment

Stephanie Tyree, Coordinator, OVEC Sludge Safety Project
Mary Varson Cromer, Staff Attorney


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

new poster

website/register

Invitations are going out to all of the lawschools. We website has been updated again and we are asking all presenters to help promote the conference by posting to all of their list, emails, etc about it--we have a paragraph for folks to send.

FYI this blog is just for updates--the website is a better source for finalized information. www.apiel.org

PLEASE go to our website and register if you have not.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Website updated--got CLE

The website apiel.org has been updated. The State of Tennessee accepted our CLE application so thats a go. We have secured a church for the showing of COAL COUNTRY with full kitchen so Sat night meal and movie is a go. Its located a few blocks from the law school. Invitations are going out to law students and fliers to different activist events. 42 days and counting. The workshops have really come together--some powerful lawyers and groups are coming and presenting on their work. Next we have to find endless amounts of free coffee for everyone.