EPISODE 18: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND ENERGY CONCERNS OF INDOOR CANNABIS CULTIVATION

Episode Summary

Listen to Gina Warren, Professor of Law, A.L. O'Quinn Chair in Environmental Studies, Co-director of the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Center (EENR), University of Houston Law Center, and Distinguished Energy Law Summer Scholar at VLGS discuss the environmental justice and energy concerns of indoor cannabis cultivation with host Laura Ireland and co-host Laurie Beyranevand.

Guest

Gina Warren, Professor of Law, A.L. O'Quinn Chair in Environmental Studies, Co-director of the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Center (EENR), University of Houston Law Center.

Host

Laura Ireland, associate director, Animal Law and Policy Institute and Laurie Beyranevand, professor of law and director of the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems and a Professor of Law

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Links to resources mentioned in this podcast -

Gina Warren papers:

“Hotboxing the Polar Bear: The Energy and Climate Impacts of Indoor Marijuana Cultivation,” 101 Boston University Law Review 979 (2021).

“Regulating Pot to Save the Polar Bear: Energy and Climate Impacts of the Marijuana Industry,” 40 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 385 (2015).

Gina Warren's Hot Topic in Environmental Law Lecture - "The Unwanted Neighbor: How Indoor Cannabis Cultivators Raise Environmental Justice Concerns".

Farm and Energy Initiative report – “Energy and Equity in Cannabis Cultivation" by Genevieve Byrne, Institute for Energy and the Environment, assistant professor, staff attorney, Farm and Energy Initiative