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IU McKinney Law Symposium to Focus on Environmental Justice and Protection
09/14/2022
Experts from federal, state, and local government, as well as academia will explore environmental justice and protection at the 2022 Program on Law and State Government (PLSG) Fellowship Symposium from 9 a.m.- 4:15 p.m. on Friday, September 23.
IU McKinney Law PLSG Fellows Charis Grubbs and Hunt Reynolds will lead an exploration of ways that state governments use their sovereign power to protect the environment and promote public health through environmental law. In the photo from left are Hunt Reynolds, Professor Cynthia Baker, and Charis Grubbs.
The symposium, “State Government Tools for Environmental Justice and Protection: Where Does Indiana Stand?” features a keynote address by Carlton Waterhouse, deputy assistant administrator for the United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Land and Emergency Management.
Also on the agenda:
· PLSG Fellow Grubbs, who will present her research “Forging the Way: Surveying State Governments’ Responses to Environmental Inequities.”
· PLSG Fellow Reynolds, who will present his research “A Missed Opportunity: Indiana’s Environmental Policy Act at 50.”
· Two faculty addresses, “Federal Preemption and State Innovation in Environmental Law” by Jonathan Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, and “What Does it Mean to Save Land?” by Christian Freitag, clinical associate professor at IU Maurer School of Law and president and executive director and Conservation Law Center.
· A morning panel discussion with experts on “Indiana State Government in Action: Responses to Lead Poisoning.”
· Two afternoon panel discussions on “Two More State Government Tools: Land Use Laws and Environmental Policy Acts” and “Private Property and the Environment: How States can Encourage Voluntary Conservation.”
All symposium sessions will be located in the Wynne Courtroom at Inlow Hall, 530 W. New York Street. Registration is required.
