Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Schedule

APIEL III, 2012 Saturday, October 27 and Sunday, October 28, 2012 UT College of Law Approved for 9 (general) credits Saturday, October 27 Session I:9:20-10:20 a.m Room Title and Speaker Clean Water 136 Basic Tennessee Water Quality Laws Brian Paddock, Jon Jonakin Immigration and 237 Global Migration and the Workplace: Challeges for Social Justice Social Justice Fran Ansley Session II: 10:40-11:40 Clean Water 136 Clean Water Act: Citizen Suits 101 Stephanie Matheny, Mary Cromer Nuclear 135 Lessons of Rocky Flats and Similar Untold Plutonium Stories of the Southeast Kristen Iversen, Terry Lodge Immigration and 237 Immigration Regulation and State Encroachment Social Justice Jeremy Jennings Session III: 2:00-3:00 p.m. Coal 241 Coal, Courts, and Corruption: Law, Lawyers, and the Anti-Strip-Mining Movement Dean Hill Rivkin, Patrick McGinley Nuts and Bolts 136 Stopping Polluters with Local Ordinances Mike Ewall Nuclear (Hour 1) 135 New Nuclear Power Reactors–The Role of Federal, State, and Local Intervention Mary Olson, John Runkle, Terry Lodge Immigration and 237 The Dream Act Interrupted: Deferred Action Social Justice For Immigrant Children Barbara M. Szweda Session IV: 3:20-4:20 Forests and Public Lands 136 Using the Law to Help National Forests Mitigate Climate Change Perrin de Jong, Davis Mounger, Ernie Reed Coal 241 Lessons from Regulating Longwall Coal Mining in Pennsylvania Nikolina Smith, Aimee Erickson, Stephen Kunz Nuclear and Coal 338 A Guarantee for More Dirty Energy: State “Construction Work in Progress” Laws John Runkle Environmental Justice 237 Environmental (In)Justice: How the Law has Failed to Combat Environmental Racism Mike Ewall Nuclear (Hour 2) 135 New Nuclear Power Reactors: The Role of Federal, State, and Local Intervention Mary Olson, John Runkle, Terry Lodge Sunday, October 28 Session I:9:00-10:00 Biodiversity 136 The Endangered Species Act and Appalachian Species Tierra Curry Incineration 237 Biomess: How “Biomass” and Trash Incinerators Wreck the Environment and Communities Mike Ewall Session II:10:20-11:20 Public/Private Collaboration 242 Protecting the Environment Through Public Private Partnerships Joe Jarret Nuclear (Hour 1) 135 Oak Ridge, Hub of Global Radioactive Waste (Permitted) Trafficking Diane D’Arrigo, John McFadden Forests and Public Lands 136 Forest Planning in a New Era (Hour 1) Hugh Irwin, Brent Martin, Jill Gottesman Session III:11:40-12:40 Coal 241 Legal Tools to Shut Down Existing Coal Fired Power Plants Robert Ukeiley, Aubrey Baldwin, Jennifer Peterson Clean Water 237 Public Participation in Administrative Proceedings Affecting Tennessee Water Quality Brian Paddock, Jon Jonakin Nuclear (Hour 2) 135 Oak Ridge, Hub of Global Radioactive Waste (Permitted) Trafficking Diane D’Arrigo, John McFadden Forests and Public Lands 136 Forest Planning in a New Era (Hour 2) Hugh Irwin, Brent Martin, Jill Gottesman Session IV: 2:00-3:00 Clean Water 135 The Clean Water Act Permit Shield and Its Discontents Gena Lewis, Stephanie Matheny Nuclear 241 Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Incineration Lou Zeller Transportation (Hour 1) 136 Transportation Planning for the 21 st Century D.J. Gerken and Sam Evans Session V:3:20-4:20 Coal 237 Digital Data Analysis and SMCRA Enforcement Mathew Louis-Rosenberg, Rob Goodwin Transportation (Hour 2) 136 Transportation Planning for the 21 st Century D.J. Gerken and Sam Evans
http://www.law.utk.edu/cle/12APIEL.shtml APIEL 2012 Appalachian Public Interest Environmental Law Conference Saturday-Sunday, October 27-28, 2012 University of Tennessee College of Law Approved by Tennessee CLE for 9 hours general credit * The complete schedule NOTE: Attorneys register for the APIEL program twice: first, for the program itself at https://sites.google.com/site/apielconference/registration and then for the CLE credits by completing the form below and submitting it. The cost for the CLE credits is $100, cash or check payable to the University of Tennessee. If you have questions about the CLE credits that aren’t answered on the schedule, call Micki Fox at 865 974-8601. * There are multiple lectures offered each hour; depending on which ones you select, it will be possible to get 9 hours general credit during this APIEL program. Online Reservation Form http://www.law.utk.edu/cle/12APIEL.shtml

Friday, October 5, 2012

9 hours (general) CLE credit available during the Appalachian Public Interest Environmental Law Conference Saturday and Sunday, October 27-28, 2012! Details and on-line registration available: www.law.utk.edu/cle BRING YOUR LAPTOP--we are paperless this year! All materials will be on 2 UBS drives (one for Saturday and one for Sunday). Because of time required to order the drives and download all Speaker materials to them, attorneys need to be registered and paid by Friday, October 19! If you have any questions, feel free to contact Micki at MFox2@utk.edu or call her at 865 974-8601. Hope to see you here at the College of Law for this popular program!

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Join us for APIEL III October 26-28 PACE and United Mountain Defense is proud to host the 3rd annual Appalachian Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at UT College of Law. REGISTER at www.apiel.org ! The APIEL conference brings together activists, public interest attorneys, scientists, law students, graduate students, funders and media from across the Appalachian region and surrounding states for a dynamic weekend of networking, strategizing, information exchange, skill sharing, and social events. The first two years of APIEL have been an auspicious beginning to what we hope will become a regional institution of environmental collaboration. Please join us as we continue to strengthen and build community for the Eastern United States' forces of public interest environmental law, science and policy. See more at www.apiel.org, and please pass it on! Sign up for our information list at: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/apielinfo