2011 PIELC Panels and Events
Updated with links to panel recordings and documents.

New Schedule!

P = Panels
K = Keynote Speakers
*= Note the change from Friday to Saturday

2011 PIELC PANEL SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, MARCH 3

Panel One (3:45 p.m. - 5:00)

• Biomass Incineration: Impacts on Ecosystems, Energy, and Economy, (Organized by Samantha Chirillo)

• Subsistence Rights: Humanity in Food and Farming, (Organized by Andhi Reyna)

• Challenging Firestone Liberia's environmental abuses, ELAW (Organized by Mark Chernaik)

• Forest Service Travel Management:  Litigation Trends and Next Steps, (Organized Jane Steadman)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS (6:00 p.m. - 8:00)

• Lynn Henning, Environmental Impacts of CAFOs, 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner

• Matt Briggs, writer, producers, and director of the movie "Deep Green." Keynote will also include a screening of the movie.

FRIDAY, MARCH 4

Panel Two (9:00 a.m. - 10:15)

• Bowerman Fellow & Breakfast

• Citizen Stormwater: Cleaning Up Point and Non-Point Sources (Organized of Claire Tonry)

• BP Oil Spill Litigation, (Organized by Jacki Lopez)

• Tar Sands, (Organized by Robert O’Halloran Jr. & Elizabeth Brown)

• Forage fish and the food web - issues and challenges, (Organized by Paul Engelmeyer)

• Guide to Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), (Organized by Gerry Pollet)

• Wolves, Cougars, and Hunting: Can Fish & Game Agencies Manage Predators? (Organized by George Wuerthner)

• Public Land Range Management: Change is Coming, (Organized by Jim Catlin)

• Peak Forests—Biomass as a Source of Electricity, (Organized by Toby Thaler)

• Oregon's Coastal State Forests: Safeguarding Our Ecosystem Services, (Organized by Nick Cady)

• Endangered Species Act Listing, (Organized by Jay Tuchton)

• Extending US Environmental Laws to US Actions Abroad, (Organized by Doug Norlen & Brendan Cummings)

• Reinventing Environmental Law to Encourage the Development of Clean Technologies, (Organized by Jack Jacobs)
  

Panel Three (10:30 a.m. - 11:45)

• Protecting Pinyon-Juniper: Great Basin Trees Targeted for Biomas, (Organized by Katie Fite)

• Energy Law & Policy in the Rockies: the Year in Review, (Organized by Mike Chiropolos)

• Specialized Environmental Law Courts in China, ELAW (Organized by Rob Westfall)

• Recycling - For Saving Our Energy Resources & Green Jobs (Organized by Micheal Sunanda)

• Formerly Used Defense Sites Clean-up (organized by Beth Wooten)

• Challenging Corporate Power, (Organized by Scott Parkin, Rainforest Action Network)

• National Parks: The Next Generation  (Organized by Michael Kellett)

• ESA Section 9 Cases -- discussions about bringing citizen suits to enforce the take prohibition of the ESA, (organized by Tanya Sanerib)

• Stopping Sprawl & Saving the Planet, (Organized by Jessica Bloomfield)

• Recovering from the Spill: NRDA and the Clean-up of the Gulf Coast, (Organized by Niki Pace)

• Obtaining Attorneys’ Fees under EAJA and Citizen Suit Provisions, (Organized by Peter Frost)

• State Energy Code and Federal Preemption, (Organized by Ken Eklund)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS (12:00 p.m. - 2:15)

• Bruce Nilles, Director of Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club

• Lori Caramanian, Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, U.S. Department of the Interior

Panel Four (2:30 p.m. - 3:45)

• Stunning Proposals to Export West Coast Coal to Asia: How We Will Stop It (Organized by Brett VandenHeuvel)

• Death by a Thousand Wells (Organized by Matthew Bishop)

• Protecting the Northwest from Hanford being used as a national radioactive waste dump (Organized by Gerry Pollet, JD)

• Forest Service Management (or lack there-of) of Over-Snow Vehicles (Organized by Forrest G. McCarthy)

• Starting an Environmental Law Public Interest Practice, (Organized by Elisabeth Holmes)

• Ethics for Activist and Resistance Defense Attorneys, (Organized by Daniel Gregor)

• Deep Green Resistance, (Organized by Lierre Keith & Meredith Holley)

• The Future of Western Oregon BLM Lands, (Organized by Chandra LeGue)

• Coordinated Regional Community Planning for a Resilient Future, (Organized by Jan Wilson, Western Environmental Law Center)

• Taking Down Big Coal: Legal Strategies to Gain Optimum Leverage, (Organized by Elizabeth Brown)

• Green Politics & the Green Future, (Organized by Blair Bobier)

• Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration in the Arctic, (Organized by Tanya Sanerib)

• The Seattle Area Happiness Initiative: A new strategy for sustainability (Organized by John de Graaf)

• The Black-backed Woodpecker: the ‘Spotted Owl’ of Post-fire Forest Ecosystems, (Organized by Chad Hanson)

• Injecting Community Voices and Accountability into Tribal Governance: The Emerging Role of Indigenous Environmental Organizations, (Organized by Brad Bartlett)

Panel Five (4:00 p.m. - 5.15)

• Using the Endangered Species Act to Protect Imperiled Marine Wildlife (Organized by Catherine Kilduff)

• Law School Loan Forgiveness Through Practicing Public Interest Law (Organized by Elisabeth Holmes)

• EPA’s Pending Rules: New Tools to Phase-Out Coal and Slash Mobile Source Climate Pollution (Organized by Dan Galpern)

• Legacy of the Spotted Owl: The 20th Anniversary of the Dwyer Injunction, (Organized by Douglas Bevington)

• Green Real Estate, (Organized by Deborah Curran)

• The Future of Outer Continental Shelf Drilling in the U.S., (Organized by Jacki Lopez)

• Smokey Bear vs. Smoky Air: Fire Management for Ecosystem Restoration and Air Quality Protection, (Organized by Timothy Ingalsbee)

• Clearing Air Everywhere, (Organized by Jeremy Nichols)

• Why Nestlé Should Not Be Allowed to Bottle Water in the Columbia River Gorge - Including Legal Arguments and a Track Record of Corporate Irresponsibility, (Organized by Julia DeGraw)

• Ghana and Liberia Forestry and Mining, ELAW (Organized by Mark Chernaik)

• Wilderness in the Age of Climate Change, (Organized by Erik Fernandez)

• A Decade of the Clean Water Act Confusion: Navigating SWANCC and Rapanos, (Organized by Jim Murphy)

• Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Enforcement, (Organized by Plains Justice)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS (5:30 p.m. - 7:30)

• Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Congressman for Oregon's Third District

• Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

SATURDAY, MARCH 5

Ethics Workshop (8:15 a.m. - 10:15)

Panel Six (9:00 a.m. - 10:15)

• Pesticide Pollution is a Danger for Life (Organized by Sviltlana Kravchenko)

• Sustainable Stoves in the Developing World, (Organized by Nancy S. Hughes)

• A New Model for Eastern Oregon Forests, (Organized by Chandra LeGue)

• The Ecological and Human Health Impacts of the Marijuana Industrial Complex, (Organized by Tony Silvaggio).

• Wildfire, Beetles, and Logging,  (Organized by George Wuerthner.)

• Winning Ugly: How the grassroots defeated Bradwood LNG (Organized by Olivia Schmidt)

• Impacts of Genetically Engineered Organisms: First Supreme Court Case and Other Litigation Updates, (Organized by George Kimbrell)

• Latin America: Impacts of Mining and other Natural Resource Extraction, ELAW (Organized by Liz Mitchell)

Panel Seven (10:30 a.m. - 11:45)

• Turning Toward Conservation Forestry, (Organized by Craig Patterson)

• The BP Oil Disaster, the Aftermath and its Consequences, (Organized by Daniel Bowman)

• Activist Self-Defense; Beyond Know Your Rights , (Organized by Michael Albers)

• Legacy and the latest Uranium “Boom”– the renewed fight to protect people and water, (Organized by Jeff Parsons)

• The Northern Spotted Owl Recovery Plan: Protection or Misdirection? (Organized by Douglas Bevington)

• Federal Forest Policy Folly: Privatization of the Commons, (Organized by Samantha Chirillo)

• Practicing with New Meaning; How Sustainability is Transforming the Law (Organized by Barry Woods)

• Animal Factories and Commodity Crops: Legal Approaches for Combating the Environmental Harms, (Organized by Bruce Myers)

• Nanotechnology and the Environment, (Organized by Rodney Allen)

• Rightsizing the Forest Service Road System: A New Opportunity to Create Clean Water, Happy Wildlife, and Green Jobs!, (Organized by Bethanie Walder)

• Tangible Solutions, Industrial Hemp Now!, (Organized by Loretta Huston)

• Legal Strategies to Fight Coal Export on the West Coast, (Organized by Lauren Goldberg)

• Impacts of and Alternatives to Big Solar on Public Lands (Organized by Janine Blaeloch)

• National Forest Litigation Update, (Organized by Marc Fink)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS (12:30 p.m. - 2:15)

• Carl Safina, Co-Founder and President, Blue Ocean Institute

• Humberto Rios Labrada, Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba, 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner

Panel Eight (2:30 p.m. - 3:45)

• The Klamath Settlement: What Is It, How Is It Working? (Organized Glen H. Spain)

• Utility Rates and Rate Structures; Do they Support or Undermine Energy Conservation? (Organized by Craig Patterson)

• Pulling the Plug on Dirty Water with NPDES De-delegation Petitions (Organized by Laura Murphy)

• How Can We Protect Public Lands and Promote Renewable Energy Development?, (Organized by Lisa Belenky)

• Nuclear Power: An Ineffective, Expensive, and Dangerous Response to Climate Change, (Organized by Elizabeth Brown)

• Sawal Nur:  the Challenge of Traditional Salmon Restoration within a US Legal Framework, (Organized by NALSA and the Winnemem support group of Oregon)

• Using the News: Getting Your Story to the Media, a Roundtable with Reporters, (Organized by Camillia Mortensen and Nadia White)

• Wolf Recovery in the Pacific Northwest, (Organized by Rob Klavins)

• Environmental Advocacy in a post-Citizens United World (Organized by Alex Hood and Elisabeth Holmes)

• The Dog that Won’t Ever Die: A Walking Tour of the University of Oregon’s Riverfront Research Park (Organized by Allen Hancock, Connecting Eugene).

• Up In Smoke: Challenging Big Coal in the Western U.S., (Organized by Brad Bartlett)

• Ruby Natural Gas Pipeline- Litigation and Mitigation (Organized by Marty Bergoffen)

• EcoDistricts (Organized by Carley Dirks)

Panel Nine (4:00 p.m. - 5:15)

• A Viewing and Discussion of the Film: “Return of the Navajo Boy”

• Local Tools for Addressing the Impacts of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) (Organized by Laura Murphy)

• Environmentalism Gone Awry: The war on invansive species (Organized by Fritzi Cohen)

• Saving for Flow: Connecting Water Conservation and Flow Protection, (Organized by Adam Schempp)

• Species Protection in a Warming World, (Oranized by Bethany Cotton, Center for Biological Diversity)

• Renewable Energy Sprawl in Sagebrush Wildlands, (Organized by Katie Fite)

• Grazing on Public Lands: A Sustainable Use?, (Organized by Joe Bushyhead and Molly Fales)

• 2010: Clean Air Act Year in Review, (Organized by Dave Bender)

• Wolf Recovery in the Pacific Northwest - continued, (Organized by Rob Klavins)

• Beyond Green Scare: effective media in the age of terror laws (Organized by Dean Kuipers)

• Logging Roads & Water: NEDC v. Brown, what it means and where to go from here... (Organized by Sarah Peters)

• The APA in the Post-McNair World, (Organized by Jack Tuholske)

• Using the New Online Protected Area, Species, and Habitat Databases (Organized by James L. Olmsted)

SUNDAY, MARCH 6

Panel Ten (9:00 a.m. - 10:15)

• Navigating the Criminal Courts:  For Activists and their Attorneys, (Organized by Ben Rosenfeld)

• Restoring Food and Trade Sovereignty at Home and Abroad, (Organized by Samantha Chirillo)

• White-Nose Syndrome and the Dying of the Bats, (Organized by Mollie Matteson).

• The Right FIT for Oregon: Successful renewable energy feed-in tariffs and community-scale energy generation, (Organized by Ray Neff, OREP)

• Dioxin from Phone Poles: Poison in Your Back Yard (Organized by William Verick)

• Environmental Impact Assessments in Estonia, Hungary and Slovakia, ELAW (Organized by Maggie Keenan)

• Klamath-Siskiyou Discussion and Documentary: “A Wild American Forest” (Organized by Julie Norman)

Panel Eleven (10:30 - 11:45)

• Rural Oregon: Not a Dumping Ground for Dirty Development Projects, (Organized by Jody McCaffree)

• Coming Clean and Green with Information Disclosure, (Organized by Dr. Troy Abel)

• Sustainable City Year, (Organized by Jessica Bloomfield)

• The Occupation of the US Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico and the Struggle that Continues, (Organized by Daniel Romero)

• Problems with Palm Oil (Organized by Brihannala Morgan)

• Oregon Community Solar Development: Challenges and PathwaysForward (Organized by Sam Roberts)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS (12:30 p.m. - 1:30)

• Jeremy Wates, Former Secretary to the Aarhus Convention, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

• Dr. Vandana Shiva, Renowned Environmentalist and Author