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  • John Echeverria filed an amicus brief with the Nevada Supreme Court on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Western Resource Advocates, National Wildlife Federation, and Nevada Wildlife Federation urging the Court to recognize that the Nevada public trust doctrine applies to appropriative water rights, December 27, 2018.
     
  • John Echeverria's blog post, Knick Goes On and On,” appears in his Takings Litigation blog commenting on the pending Supreme Court takings case of Knick v. Township of Scott, December 18, 2018.
     
  • In December 2018, Cambridge University Press published a paperback edition of Kinvin Wroth’s work, co-edited with Hoi L. Kong, NAFTA and Sustainable Development: History, Experience and Prospects for Reform, published in hard copy by the Press in 2015.
     
  • Yanmei Lin co-authored (with Nicha Rakpanichmanee) "China’s Waste Ban Exposes Missing Links in Recycling," Vermont Journal of Environmental Law's 2019 Top 10 Watch List, December 2018.
     
  • Sarah Reiter's article, "Values at the Land-Sea Interface: Mapping Ecosystem Services in the Coastal Environment," (co-authored with Wedding, L.M., Verutes, G.M., Hartge, E.H., Guannel, G., and L.H. Good) was recently published in Current: Journal of Marine Education, Volume 32, Number 1, pages 25-31, December 2018.
     
  • Patrick Parenteau's blog article, "Channeling Scalia: Does the Clean Water Act Regulate Indirect Discharges “to” Navigable Waters Via Groundwater?" appears on the American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL.org), December 11, 2018.
     
  • Kevin Jones presented “Public Interest Environmental Litigation,” at Supreme People’s Court Judicial Cases Research Institute 14th Forum, National Judges College, Beijing, China, December 12, 2018.
     
  • Kevin Jones presented “US Policy for Powering the Green Economy: Lagging Federal Policy, Leading State Policy and Emerging Corporate Excellence,” at Tsinghau University, Beijing, China, December 11, 2018.
     
  • Kevin Jones presented on VLS’s Energy Clinic at the 82nd Loujia Lecture Series on Environmental Law and Policy, at Wuhan University’s Research Institute for Environmental Law, China, December 10, 2018.
     
  • Yanmei Lin presented "Exploring the Role of Problem-based Service Learning in Environmental Law Education" in the China Environmental Science Society Environmental Law Branch Annual Conference in Beijing, China, on December 9, 2018.
     
  • Janet Milne's chapter, "A Bird’s-eye View of Environmental Taxation," appears in Tax and the Environment, edited by Roberta Mann and Tracey Roberts (Lexington Books), November 2018.
     
  • Janet Milne's prologue appears in Aspectos Constitucionales Controvertidos de la Tributación Ambiental (P. Alderete and P. Córdoba, eds., Advocatus 2018).  The book is the result of a project on environmental taxation under the direction of Rodolfo Salassa Boix at the Universidad Nacionale de Córdobo, Argentina.  Professor Milne's prologue is published in English and Spanish.
     
  • Yanmei Lin presented “Environmental Mission Scholars Program: Fostering Next Generation of Environmental Public Interest Law Practitioners” at the Conference on Environmental Law Education and Innovation in Practical Training, Renmin University of China, on November 16, 2018. 
     
  • Yanmei Lin presented “Onondaga Lake: From Pollution to Restoration- a Successful Case Study for Reference to China’s Ecological Damages Compensation System” at the Symposium on Ecological Environmental Damages Procedures sponsored by Supreme People’s Court’s Practical Base and Tianjing University School of Law on November 10, 2018.
     
  • Kevin Jones presented “Rooftop Solar and the Future of the Electricity Grid,” a roundtable at PURPA @ 40 Conference, University of Utah’s Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and Environment, November 9, 2018
     
  • Reed Loder served on a panel on "Endangered Species Act" at the ESA and CITES: Two Statutes, Both Alike in Dignity conference by the Environmental Law Institute, Washington, DC, on November 1, 2018.
     
  • Yanmei Lin's article, Overview of Ecology Law Scholarship in the United States (2017), will be published in the Ecology Law Review edited by Chinese Academy of Social Science in early 2019.
     
  • Yanmei Lin's paper, “A Perfect Storm: How China’s Taizhou Case Marks the Beginning of a New Wave of Environmental Enforcement” (with Amy Pickering), Environmental Story around the World, the Proceedings of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law 15th Colloquium University of Cebu Philippines, Edward Elgar, is forthcoming December 2018.
     
  • Yanmei Lin's chapter, “Rules and Practices of Citizen Suits Settlement: Lesson from the United States”, Review of Public Interest Litigation in Environmental Protection, edited by Li Dun, Legal Press, is forthcoming November, 2018.
     
  • Hillary Hoffmann's article, "Congressional Plenary Power and Indigenous Environmental Stewardship," will be published in the Oregon Law Review in early 2019.
     
  • Janet Milne presented “Understanding the Design Fundamentals of Carbon Taxes,” at The Case for Putting a Price on Carbon organized by the Environmental Business Council of New England in Boston, MA on October 26, 2018.
     
  • Laurie Beyranevand presented her paper (co-authored with Diana Winters), "Retooling American Foodralism," at American University School of Law’s FDA Past, Present, and Future Conference in Washington, DC on October 19, 2018.
     
  • Yanmei Lin presented “Overview of U.S. Environmental Legislation and Key Environmental Statues” at Environmental Defense Fund China Program for 24 officials from law enforcement and supervisory department of Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China and local Environmental Protection Bureaus on October 13, 2018.
     
  • Janet Milne co-edited the book, Innovation Addressing Climate Change Challenges: Market-Based Perspectives, M. Hymel et al., eds. (Edward Elgar), September 2018. The book is Volume XX in Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation, a series for which Professor Milne is one of the co-editors.
     
  • Laurie Beyranevand served as a panelist on “Cross Cutting State and Federal Regulatory Spheres” at the Food and Drug Law Institute’s Food Advertising, Labeling, and Litigation Conference in Washington, D.C on September 26 and 27, 2018.
     
  • Janet Milne delivered a keynote address at the 19th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation in Madrid, Spain, on September 28, 2018.
     
  • Several VLS faculty participated in the 9th Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship at Vermont Law School, September 22, 2018​:
    • Melissa Scanlan, moderator
    • Melissa Scanlan, conference organizer
    • Kinvin Wroth, moderator
    • Kinvin Wroth, presenter, "Renegotiating NAFTA:  Threat or Opportunity for Sustainability" 
    • Carrie Scrufari, presenter, "FDA and Risk-Based Enforcement: Compromised Consumer Protection or Stepped Up Scrutiny?"
    • Hillary Hoffmann, moderator
    • Hillary Hoffmann, presenter, "FLPMA Mineral Withdrawal Revocations Under the Trump Administration"
    • Mark James, moderator
    • Mark James, presenter, "Building Energy Efficiency into Real Estate Transactions"
    • Thomas McHenry, moderator
    • Thomas McHenry, presenter, "Environmental Curriculum: What Should Law Schools Teach?"
    • Reed Loder, moderator
    • Joan Vogel, moderator
       
  • Yanmei Lin presented “Restore to the Origin or Design for the Future: Case Discussion of the Ecological Destruction Public Interest Litigation”, Duke Kunshan University, September 10, 2018.
     
  • Reed Loder accepted a peer reviewer position with the environmental ethics journal, Environmental Values.
     
  • Reed Loder's article "Asteroid Mining: Ecological Jurisprudence Beyond Earth," appears in 36 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 275-317 (Sept. 2018, Vol. 3).
     
  • Hillary Hoffmann was quoted on NPR's "Oil And Gas Drilling Could Endanger U.S. Archaeological Sites," on August 19, 2018.
     
  • Hillary Hoffmann's blog post "BLM's Plans for Reduced Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments: More Mining, Grazing, and Off-Road Vehicle Use Ahead," was published on the Environmental Law Prof Blog on August 16, 2018. 
     
  • Reed Loder's article, "Mining Asteroids: Ecological Jurisprudence Beyond Earth," will appear in VIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL, Volume 3, Issue 36, Fall 2018.
     
  • Pat Parenteau will publish Green Justice Revisited: Dick Brooks on the Laws of Nature and the Nature of Law, (forthcoming) Vermont J. of Env. Law, Fall 2018.
     
  • Stephen Dycus and his coauthors published 2018-2019 Supplement to National Security Law (6th ed.) and Counterterrorism Law in August of 2018.
     
  • Pat Parenteau published The Clean Water Rule: Not Dead Yet in 48 Environmental Law 377 (Summer 2018).
     
  • Hillary Hoffmann presented "FLPMA Mineral Withdrawals Under the Trump Administration," at the 64th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, Natural Resources Law Teachers' Workshop in Victoria, B.C. on July 22, 2018.
     
  • Pat Parenteau is co-author of a Brief Amici Curiae of Environmental Law Professors in Weyerhaeuser v USFWS US S. Ct. 2018.
     
  • John Echeverria presented "Taking Sea Level Rise Seriously" at the 2018 IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium in Glasgow, Scotland on July 5, 2018. 
     
  • Pat Parenteau published Local, county and state governments are suing oil companies over climate change in The Conversation on July 5,2018. 
     
  • Stephen Dycus and his coauthors have just reached agreement with Wolters Kluwer for publication of a 7th edition of National Security Law and a 4th edition of Counterterrorism Law in the spring of 2020.  
     
  • Laurie Beyranevand co-authored an essay with Diana Winters entitled “Retooling American Foodralism,” which was accepted for publication by the American Journal of Law and Medicine, a peer reviewed health law journal published by the Boston University School of Law in conjunction with the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.
     
  • Melissa Scanlan published an opinion piece, which was number one in trending news on the day of publication, called “Facebook is a Tyranny and our Government Isn’t Built to Stop It,” The Guardian US, April 18, 2018.
     
  • Kevin Jones presented on a panel for the American Resilience Project’s talk on A Strategic Narrative for Modernizing the Grid in NYC on May 31, 2018.
     
  • Pat Parenteau presented “The Great Debate: Is Global Warming a Public Nuisance?”at the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason U sponsored by the Law and Economics Program on May 22, 2018.
     
  • Melissa Scanlan gave an invited lecture on May 8, 2018, in the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) speaker series at Tilburg Law School, in the Netherlands.  The title of her talk is, “Law and Policy for the New Economy” and she will be promoting the book by the same title and the work of her VLS co-authors (Professors Ristino, Jones, and James) on the book.
     
  • Hillary Hoffmann's article, Congressional Plenary Power and Indigenous Environmental Stewardship: The Limits of Environmental Federalism, appears in Oregon Law Review (forthcoming 2019).
     
  • Pat Parenteau presented a paper at University College Cork Ireland on April 25 on Climate Change Litigation Heating Up.
     
  • Stephen Dycus delivered the keynote address, "Whistling in the Dark: Addressing Threats to Critical Infrastructure," to a conference on national security issues sponsored by the New York County Lawyers Association on April 20, 2018.
     
  • Pat Parenteau presented a paper at the Lewis & Clark Law Review Symposium on Environmental Protection in the Trump Era on April 9. Paper deals with the repeal of the clean water rule and will be published in next issue of Environmental Law.
     
  • Jessica Scott was quoted in Pacific Standard Magazine discussing the legal implications of the EPA's action on fuel efficiency standards on April 4, 2018.
     
  • Melissa Scanlan presented at the George Washington University Law School J.B. & Maurice C. Shapiro Symposium on the Public Trust Doctrine in the 21st Century.  The symposium was March 15-16, 2018, in Washington, D.C.  Scanlan’s talk is titled, "The Role of the Courts in Guarding Against Privatization of Important Public Environmental Resources."
     
  • Melissa Scanlan was asked to serve as a judge for the Secretary of the U.S. Navy’s environmental sustainability awards. In February she reviewed and ranked U.S. military bases’ efforts and progress to reduce their use of hazardous materials, recycle and reuse materials, conserve energy, generate power with renewables, and conserve water, among other sustainability measures.  
     
  • Pat Parenteau participated on two panels at the Tulane Environmental Summit Mar 9-10. One on Defending the ESA in the Era of Trump; the other on Enforcing the Rule of Law in an Age of Deregulation.
     
  • Kevin Jones presented on “Promoting Meaningful Community Solar as a Bridge to Climate Justice” at the conference “The Just Transition towards a Low-Carbon Economy – Integrating Climate, Energy and Environmental Justice” sponsored by the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 1-2, 2018.
     
  • Janet Milne wrote the Preface for Innovation Addressing Climate Change Challenges: Market-Based Perspectives, which will be Volume XX of Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation.  The book, which contains 15 chapters about a variety of market-based approaches to climate change, will be published by Edward Elgar in September 2018.  Janet is also a co-editor for the book.  The book manuscript was submitted to the publisher at the end of February.
     
  • Laurie Beyranevand presented her co-authored article, “Making the Case for a National Food Strategy in the United States,” on a panel entitled Notes From the Field of Food Law and Policy at the Yale Food Systems Symposium on February 24.
     
  • Yanmei Lin's article, "U.S-China Comparative Study on Environmental Public Interest Litigation Practices," appears in the Journal of Social Governance, February 15, 2018.
     
  • Janet Milne presented “Carbon Taxes: The Basics” at a meeting organized by the energy committees of the towns of Hartford, Hartland, Norwich and Thetford On February 12, 2018. She and Prof. Erin Masur at Tuck discussed the fundamentals of carbon pricing with the 40 participants in order to better prepare them for consideration of carbon pricing proposals in Vermont.
     
  • Kevin Jones presented on a panel “Examining FERC’s Role in RTO Governance” at Powershift: Regulating the Evolving Electricity Sector sponsored by Harvard’s Environmental Law Program, Duke’s Nicholas Institute and UNC’s Center for Climate, Energy, Environment and Economics at Duke University in DC on February 11, 2018.
     
  • Melissa Scanlan presented “Public Rights in Water as a Paradigm of Protection,” University of Florida, Levin College of Law, Guest Professor, Environmental Capstone Colloquium, Gainesville, FL, February 1, 2018.
     
  • Laurie Beyranevand was invited to serve another term on the Academic Programs Committee of the Food and Drug Law Institute.
     
  • Janet Milne has agreed to become the general editor for The International Library of Law and the Environment, a series published by Edward Elgar.  As general editor, she will be responsible for recommending topics and editors that might be suitable for new titles in the series and for vetting draft publications.
     
  • Ken Rumelt's report, "Modernizing Legal Remedies for a Toxic World" was presented to the Vermont Natural Resources Council and Vermont Public Interest Research Group, January 2018.
     
  • Hillary Hoffmann was quoted, along with Prof. Mark Squillace of the University of Colorado Law School, about the litigation challenging President Trump's reduction of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and the Bears Ears National Monument, in "Trump's Monument Cuts May Rest on Shaky Legal Ground," Law360 (Jan. 16, 2018). 
     
  • Mark James presented “Clean Energy Policies: International, Federal, State, and Local Conflicts, Opportunities, and Constraints” in the Section on Natural Resources & Energy Law, Co-Sponsored by Environmental Law and State & Local Government Law, AALS, January 3, 2018.
     
  • Laurie Ristino presented “Legal & Policy Tools for Dairy in a Changing Climate” in the Section on Agriculture & Food Law, AALS, January 3, 2018.
     
  • Laurie Beyranevand was appointed as a Food and Drug Law Institute, Academic Program Committee Member, January 2018.