Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
University of Oregon School of Law
Eugene, Oregon
2009
 
 
2009 PIELC Panels
Updated with links to Web sites, audio recordings and presentation PDFs!
Keynote speaker recordings available here.

Thursday, February 26
LATE AFTERNOON PANELS • 3:45 – 5:00 P.M.
• Climate Change and Public Lands: Emerging Legal Tools to Enhance Ecosystem Resilience [ audio ]

Friday, February 27
EARLY MORNING PANELS • 9:00 – 10:15 A.M.
• Ocean Acidification: Cause, Effect, and Response [ audio ]
• Destination Resorts in Oregon: Impacts, Cases, and Legislative Outlook [ PDF ]
• Funding the Good Fight: How to Finance Your Public Interest Career [ audio ]
• Busting and Booming: Addressing Ongoing Uranium Development [ PDF 1 ][ PDF 2 ][ PDF 3 ]

LATE MORNING PANELS • 10:30 – 11:45 A.M.
• Marine Mammals and Navy Sonar [ audio 1 ] [ audio 2 ]
• Protecting Wilderness Values on the Public Lands [ audio ] [ PDF ]

EARLY AFTERNOON PANELS • 2:15 – 3:30 P.M.
• Conflicts Between Domestic Sheep Grazing and Wild Bighorn Sheep [ audio ]
• Indigenous Enforcement of Environmental Laws, Both Traditional and Statutory [ audio ]

LATE AFTERNOON PANELS • 3:45 – 5:00 P.M.
• NEPA and ESA Requirements for Programmatic Actions [ audio ]
• Tools for Addressing Climate Change Under the Existing Clean Air Act [ audio ]

Saturday, February 28
EARLY MORNING PANELS • 9:00 – 10:15 A.M.
• Genetically Engineered Trees, Agrofuels, and Other False Solutions to Climate Change [ audio ]
• The Trust Approach to Environmental Decision Making [ audio ]
• Climate Change: Global Response to a Global Challenge [ PDF 1 ] [ PDF 2 ]
• The Role of Forest Conservation in Mitigating Global Warming [ audio ] [ link ]

LATE MORNING PANELS • 10:30 – 11:45 A.M.
• Life After Montana: Alternative Implementation Strategies for Environmental Protection on the Reservation [ audio ] [ PDF ]
• U.S. and International Perspectives on Climate Change Mitigation [ audio ] [ PDF ]
• Legal Strategies for Defeating Liquefied Natural Gas [ audio ] [ PDF ]

EARLY AFTERNOON PANELS • 2:15 – 3:30 P.M.
• Health Impact Assessment in NEPA: An Emerging Dialogue and Practice [ audio ]
• Sustaining Oregon’s Ocean: Oregon’s Public Process to Establish a System of Marine Reserves and Protected Areas in State Waters [ audio ]

LATE AFTERNOON PANELS • 3:45 – 5:00 P.M.
• Ocean Zoning or Marine Gold Rush? Regulatory Considerations in Turning Water Into Watts in the Wild, Wild West [ audio ]
• Fighting Coal Fired Power Plants [ audio ]

Sunday, March 1
EARLY MORNING PANELS • 9:00 – 10:15 A.M.
• Tackling Stormwater Pollution in the Pacific Northwest: Updates and Ideas from the Frontlines [ audio ]
• Losing Federal Environmental Law: Present and Future Waivers of Environmental Laws [ audio ]
• Public Lands Energy: Year in Review [ audio ] [ PDF ]

LATE MORNING PANELS • 10:30 – 11:45 A.M.
• Restoring the Keystone Hydrological Engineer: Beaver [ audio ] [ PDF ]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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