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The EENR Center along with the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Law School Taft Gift for the Environment is co-sponsoring a workshop in October 2008, examining how legal systems should be altered in the face of climate change. Drawing on both schools expertise in environment, public health, and climate change, the Workshop hopes to address what principles should govern the changes in laws that will be coming as climate change continues. Several Professors from the University of Houston Law Center, including Marcilynn Burke, Brigham Daniels, Victor Flatt, Julie Hill, and Joan Krause, will be joining leading scholars from across the nation at the gathering in Chapel Hill. The Center for Progressive Reform will also be supporting the Workshop. Reports and white papers from the Workshop will be distributed to policy makers in various levels of government, and posted on the EENR and CPR websites.

• Adjunct Steve Susman discusses EENR class in the June 2008 edition of the Atlantic Monthly: Click here to read.
• The Land Use and Environment Law Review selected Professor Victor Flatt’s article – Gasping for Breath: The Administrative Flaws of Federal Hazardous Air Pollution Regulation and What We Can Learn from the States – as one of the year’s ten best environmental law articles (out of over 400). Flatt, who serves as the A.L. O'Quinn Chair in Environmental Law and director of the Center for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Law at the Law Center, previously made the list in 1998 and was selected as a finalist on three other occasions. Flatt’s work, which originally appeared in 34 Ecology L. Q. 107 (2007), is related to his work under a grant from the Houston Endowment that examined the regulatory environment behind Houston’s air toxics.
• Media tunes into EENR Center's plan to offer a course in Carbon Dioxide trading: Click here to read.
• The National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world's most important research centers on climate change, published a story concerning the University of Houston Law Center's EENR sponsored EELPJ symposium on climate change legislation. The article can be read at: http://www.ucar.edu/communications/quarterly/winter0708/legal.jsp
• Professor Marcilynn Burke has been selected for the Executive Committee of the Natural Resources Section of the American Association of Law Schools. This is one of her and other EENR faculty's national memberships and leadership positions is organizations associated with Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources.
• Professor Victor Flatt will be a guest teacher as a part of Seattle University’s summer program in Anchorage Alaska. Students in good standing at ABA accredited schools are eligible to participate.