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The Environmental Advocacy Clinic Challenges Logging in
White Mountain National Forest
The Environmental Advocacy Clinic (EAC) at VLGS submitted an objection with the U.S. Forest Service on behalf of Standing Trees, a grassroots organization that works to protect and restore New England’s forests. The challenge is seeking reconsideration of the Peabody West Integrated Resource Project.
Close to the Appalachian Trail, the proposed project would authorize more than 2,200 acres of commercial logging in White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire, just north of the Great Gulf Wilderness and Mount Washington.
VLGS students Amanda Reyes, JD '24 and Hannah Weisgerber, JD '25 filed the objection. Last month, the EAC filed a challenge to the Lake Tarleton Integrated Resource Project in the White Mountain National Forest. Also on behalf of Standing Trees, along with local stakeholders of the Lake Tarleton Coalition, this challenge is pending with the Forest Service.
Learn more here.
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Listen to the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Lecture Series
Summer is a busy time at VLGS! If you missed any of our Hot Topics in Environmental Law lectures or want to hear one of them again, you can view the recorded episodes at vermontlaw/live or on the VLGS YouTube channel.
Don't forget, there are still great lectures every Tuesday and Thursday at noon.
- Tuesday, July 11 – David Wirth, “The New UN Plastics Convention”
- Tuesday, July 18 – Robert Percival, “Can State Tort Litigation Do to Big Oil What It Did to Big Tobacco?”
- Thursday, July 20 – Miranda Wilson, “FERC: Helping or Hindering a Clean Energy Transition?”
- Tuesday, July 25 – Chhaya Bhardwaj, “Climate Change: ‘The Biggest Human Rights Issue of the 21st Century?’”
- Thursday, July 27 – Chris Adamo, “ESG: Who Is Making the Rules?”
- Tuesday, August 1 – Gina Warren, “The Unwanted Neighbor: How Indoor Cannabis Cultivators Raise Environmental Justice Concerns”
- Thursday, August 3 – Lela Nargi, “Reporting from the Void: Americans’ ‘Rights’ to Nutritious Food, Potable Water, and Clean Air”
Click here for full schedule and links.
Each lecture is worth one Vermont CLE credit.
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Professor Winders Speaks on Animal Law Fundamentals
VLGS Animal Law and Policy Institute Director Delcianna Winders shares an overview of the Animal Welfare Act in a video from The Brooks Institute’s series Animal Law Fundamentals. The Brooks Institute, an organization focused on advancing animal law and policy, created the series to showcase videos and papers from notable animal law scholars to make the fundamentals of animal law readily accessible to the public.
Prof. Winders speaks candidly about this federal U.S. animal protection statute that has been in place for over 50 years to ensure the humane care and treatment of animals. In the video, she provides a history of the law, explains how the law is implemented, critiques enforcement, addresses the importance of transparency, and proposes recommendations. |
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The Institute for Energy and the Environment Publishes Report with the Nature Conservancy
The Institute for Energy and the Environment (IEE), in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, has concluded its report on the effects of incorporating non-price criteria in evaluating competing bids for offshore wind. Non-price criteria are all the factors other than cost that are considered when reviewing solicitations and bid proposals. These criteria, which include biodiversity protection, environmental impact mitigation, workforce development, community advantages, and energy system integration, are vital to maximizing the potential for environmental, economic, social, and cultural benefits.
The newly published report was researched and written by Mark James, assistant professor and senior research fellow, and VLGS students Jack McGowan JD’23, Kelsey Koenig JD’23, Kira Jannusch AJD’24, Jon Small, MERL’21, and Ervin Yahr JD/MELP’24.
Read more here.
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FACULTY UPDATES
Environmental Law Scholarship
Find below the most recent and forthcoming publications by Vermont Law and Graduate School's environmental law faculty, from April 2023 to present.
Laurie Beyranevand
Laura Fox
Mark James
Yanmei Lin
- “Comparative Study of Environmental Public Interest Litigation Systems,” (with Juan Chu) Research Handbook on Comparative Environmental Law (Tseming Yang, ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing (2023).
- “The Sword of Damocles?: Analyzing China’s Ecological Environmental Damage Liability under the New Civil Code,” IUCN Colloquium Proceeding on Re-imagining Environmental Law (Amanda Kennedy, ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing (forthcoming).
Janet Milne
- “Green Taxes,” Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, 2nd ed. (forthcoming).
Patrick Parenteau
- “More than two dozen cities and states are suing Big Oil over climate change – they just got a boost from the US Supreme Court,” (with John Dernbach) The Conversation (2023).
- “Now Comes The Hard Part: Environmental Advocacy in the Age of Climate Disruption,” Environmental Law Review, Vol. 53, Issue 1 (2023).
- “Judicial Remedies for Climate Disruption: An Overview,” (with John Dernbach), Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 53, Issue 4 (forthcoming).
- “Climate Remedies,” (with John Dernbach) Climate Judiciary Project, Environmental Law Institute (forthcoming).
Jennifer Rushlow
Delcianna Winders
- “Farmed Animal Welfare: Improvements and Developments (North America),” (with Anne Peters, Kristen Stilt, and Saskia Stucki, eds.) Handbook on Global Animal Law (forthcoming).
- “Standing,” Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law (forthcoming).
- “The Animal Welfare Act,” Animal Law Fundamentals (forthcoming).
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