environmental law and policy

Guest
Karin Sheldon, President of Four Echoes Strategies and Adjunct Professor at Colorado Law University of Colorado Boulder

Hosts
Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney, Energy Clinic
Veronica Ung-Kono JD/MERL 2021

Recommended Resources

Bowman, Cynthia Grant, Women in the Legal Profession from the 1920s to the 1970s: What Can We Learn from Their Experience about Law and Social Change? (2009) Cornell Law Faculty Publications. Paper 12.

 Green 2.0, exploring diversity in environmental organizations. https://www.diversegreen.org/

• See in particular, Taylor, Dorceta E., The State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations, July 2014.
• 2019 report card with a summary here

Halton, Mary, Climate change ‘impacts women more than men’, 8 March 2018, BBC News. 

McCarthy, Joe, Why Climate Change Disproportionately Affects Women, 5 March, 2020, Global Citizen. 

Over the next few months, Hothouse Earth will be sharing  conversations with women about their experiences in shaping environmental and social change through the power of the law and some of the challenges that they've faced along the way. 

Guests:
Barry Hill, Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Law Institute and Adjunct Faculty at Vermont Law School
Carmen Gonzalez, Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law

Hosts:
Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney
Mason Overstreet, LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic

Recommended Resources:

Professor Carmen Gonzalez's Hot Topic Lecture: Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene
Their country is disappearing, a short documentary on the Marshall Islands
Natural Disasters: Developing Resilience and Addressing Climate Refugees, VJEL Top 10 Watch List 2019

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In the third and final episode on Trump's "America First Energy Plan" hosts Jeannie Oliver and Mason Overstreet examine the wide variety of regulations that protect our water, air, land and public health. In an effort to put industry first, is the Trump administration ultimately putting environment last?

Vermont Law School Professor Pat Parenteau and Boston College Law School Professor Zygmunt Plater discuss the legal actions fighting regulatory rollbacks as well as the effect these decisions have on the economy and public health.

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Guests:
Patrick Parenteau, Professor of Law and Senior Counsel in the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic (ENRLC)
Zygmunt J. B. Plater, Professor of Law at Boston College Law School

Hosts:
Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney
Mason Overstreet, LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic

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Guests:
Kyle Tisdel JD'05, Western Environmental Law Center
Shiloh Hernandez JD'08, Western Environmental Law Center

Hosts:
Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney
Mason Overstreet, LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic

With special thank you to the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law and the Top 10 Environmental Watch List 2019: http://vjel.vermontlaw.edu/topten/?toptenyear=2019

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Guests:
Laurie Beyranevand, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law
Sophia Kruszrewski, Clinic Director, Center for Agriculture and Food Systems
Ferd Hoefner, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
Cynthia Larson, Larson Farm and Creamery
Cris Coffin, American Farmland Trust

Hosts:
Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney
Mason Overstreet, LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic

With special thank you to the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law and the Top 10 Environmental Watch List 2019: http://vjel.vermontlaw.edu/topten/?toptenyear=2019