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.