Announcements

Summer Opportunity: "Professor Victor Flatt will be one of the teachers in Seattle University’s summer program in Alaska Natives and Environmental Law in Anchorage Alaska.  Students in good standing at ABA accredited schools are eligible to participate. 
For more information, please go to:  http://www.law.seattleu.edu/alaskasummer?mode=standard”

EELS & ACS presents “The Changing Face of Environmental Regulation”

Thursday, September 20th at Noon in 240 BLB

Community experts will discuss the impact of the United States Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA and their perspectives on changes in environmental regulation in light of global warming, new rules under the Clean Air Act, and aging infrastructures. 

Speakers include:

  • Professor Victor Flatt, A.L. O’Quinn Chair in Environmental Law at the UHLC
  • Elena Marks, Director of Health & Environmental Policy for the City of Houston
  • Andrew Strong, Partner of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman & Chair of the HBA Environmental Section

Visit this link to see the official lunch panel handout.

GENERAL INFORMATION MEETING

Wednesday, September 26th at Noon in 240 BLB

All law students and LLMs interested in joining are encouraged to attend.  We will discuss the advantages of becoming a member, introduce the environmental & energy law faculty, and the events scheduled for the upcoming year.

PIZZA WILL BE PROVIDED

UH Hosts Energy History Workshop in November 2007

The Center for Public History at the University of Houston will host the second in a series of energy/environmental history workshops on November 9-10, 2007.

"American Energy Policy in the 1970s" seeks to provide a historical context to American energy policy. Through a focus on the 1970s it hopes to use a time of change to understand how this decade served to transform energy policy and the role it played in changing the energy industry, the politics of energy, foreign policy, and environmentalism.

Please visit the conference website http://class.uh.edu/hist/energy2007/default.asp for information concerning the call for papers, conference program, speakers and registration. The keynote speaker will be Richard H.K. Vietor (Harvard University), the Senator John Heinz Professor of the Environment at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and the author of multiple books on energy policy, the regulation of business, and the international political economy.