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