"Trains smack of progress, freedom and adventure. It’s said that railroads revolutionized America. The Association of American Railroads (AAR) touts the safety record of the rails: 'In 2012, North American railroads safely delivered more than 2.47 million carloads of hazardous materials.' But sometimes trains leak, derail or just plain explode."
ELI (the Environmental Law Institute) will present the 2013 Environmental Achievement Award to former US Secretary of State George P. Shultz and "green" philanthropist Thomas F. Steyer to recognize their outstanding leadership to reduce climate change and advance clean energy. The Award will be presented to Shultz and Steyer at ELI’s annual dinner on Tuesday evening, October 22 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.
This half-day Environmental Law Institute conference in Washington, DC will include panel discussions on the applications and implications of big data for corporate environmental management, including a focus on traceability and food. Keynote speakers and panelists will include prominent corporate decision-makers, data scientists, practicing lawyers, academics and nongovernmental organization leaders. Open to the public; RSVP by Oct 16th.
This year's Environmental Law Institute – Miriam Hamilton Keare Policy Forum, in Washington, DC, will focus on the environmental and human effects of modern agriculture through the lens of the Farm Bill. Open to the public; RSVP by Oct 14th.
In our final Smart Grid mini-series panel, legal and energy policy experts will help us understand those more personal implications of the Smart Grid, including active and passive demand management, smart meters, time-of-use pricing, as well as the consumer and privacy issues that they raise. Co-sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute at the UC Berkeley School of Law (and via teleconference).
A discussion with top domestic experts on the various options the EPA has at its disposal for using the CAA to issue regulations, under executive order, that will lead to a cleaner power sector takes place Noon-1:30 p.m. at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, DC (and via teleconference).
This Environmental Law Institute seminar in Washington, DC (and via teleconference) will offer practitioners the most current information on the way courts view federal agencies’ decisions.
"Officials raise alert as 'zombie' birds fall to earth amid fears city may be in grip of avian ailment Newcastle disease."
"SPOKANE, Wash. — The Pacific Northwest’s sense of itself can sometimes seem green to the point of parody: a medium-roast blend of piney peaks and urban cool, populated by residents who look descended from lumberjacks or fishermen."
"TOKYO -- Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean up of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trainwreck-trainloads-oil-and-toxics-town
[2] http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20130815/lead-story/trainwreck
[3] https://www.sej.org/calendar/eli-annual-award-dinner
[4] https://www.sej.org/calendar/interactive-forum-corporate-environmental-management-era-big-data
[5] https://www.sej.org/calendar/us-agriculture-and-global-environment
[6] https://www.sej.org/calendar/smart-grid-policy-challenges-connected-grid
[7] https://www.sej.org/calendar/how-best-use-caa-%C2%A7111d-regulate-existing-power-plants-carbon-emissions
[8] https://www.sej.org/calendar/supreme-court-revisits-chevron-deference-agencies
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/moscow-investigates-pigeon-apocalypse
[10] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/19/moscow-investigates-pigeon-apocalypse-birds
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/proposed-rail-expansion-northwest-confronts-its-clean-image
[12] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/us/with-proposed-rail-expansion-northwest-confronts-its-clean-image.html?_r=0
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wrecked-fukushima-plant-springs-highly-radioactive-water-leak
[14] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/20/us-japan-fukushima-leak-idUSBRE97J02920130820
[15] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[16] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3575
[17] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3572
[18] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3573
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3574
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3577
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3578
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3579
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3580
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4962