Convenings

• Brownfields Program
• Center for State, Local and Regional Environmental Programs
• Climate Change
• Community Environmental Health and Justice Program
• Endangered Environmental Laws Program
• Indoor Environments & Green Buildings
• Judicial Education Program
• Nanotechnology Program

Brownfields Program

• LUCIP Reality Check — Denver, CO (2005)
• 2005 Phoenix Awards: Housing, Health Centers and Roads to Success — Denver, CO (2005)
• Remodeling Public Health: Bringing in the Redevelopers — Denver, CO (2005)
• Rebuilding Community Health: A Blueprint for Environmental Justice through Brownfields Redevelopment — Jacksonville, FL (2005)
• A Shot in the Arm: Promoting Public Health through Brownfields Redevelopment — St. Louis, MO (2004)
• Annual Checkup: Community Health Through Brownfields Redevelopment — St Louis, MO (2004)
• Tales from the Couch: The Psychology of Public/Private Partnerships — St. Louis, MO (2004)
• The Future of Community Health through Brownfields Redevelopment — New Bedford, MA (2004)
• Building Sustainable Communities: From Brownfields to Healthy People — Clearwater, FL (2004)
• A National Brownfields Dialogue: A Series of Interdisciplinary Discussions — Washington, DC, Houston, TX, and Chicago, IL (2001)

Climate Change

• Climate Change and the Constitution: Global Warming Litigation Heats Up (Washington, DC — November 1, 2007)
• Presentation on “Water Resource Management in the Face of Climate Change,”Chinese-American Professional Association’s annual seminar (Washington, DC — September 8, 2007)
• Climate’s Impact on Securities Disclosures (New York, NY — September 27, 2007)
• International Energy Agency Update on Climate Issues (Washington, DC — July 19, 2007)
• Going “Carbon Neutral”: Risks and Realities (Washington, DC — June 20, 2007)
• Massachusetts v. EPA: What are the Implications for the Future? (Washington, DC — May 14, 2007)
• ALI-ABA Course of Study: Global Warming: Climate Change and the Law (Washington, DC — March 22-23, 2007)
• Access to Courts after Massachusetts v. EPA: Who Will Be Left Standing? (Washington, DC — December 13, 2006)
• Presentation on “Adaptive Water Management: Coping with Uncertainty through Laws and Institutions,” International Experts Meeting on Water Management in 2020 and Beyond (Monasterio de Rueda, Spain — November 8-10, 2006)
• 2006 ELI-Miriam Hamilton Keare Policy Forum Governing Climate Change: Can Regional, State and Voluntary Approaches Do the Job? (Washington, DC — November 8, 2006)
• Climate Change for Lawyers (Washington, DC — November 8, 2006)
• Assessing Gaps and Needs for Invasive Species Management in a Changing Climate (Washington, DC — 2006)
• Seminar on the Future of Technology Transfer under International Environmental Agreements (Washington, DC — 2006)
• International Global Climate Markets and Transactions: Key Developments and Issues for US Companies (Six Locations in the US and Europe, — February 15, 2005)
• Reporting on Climate Change: Understanding the Science (Washington, DC — October 16, 2003)
• Carbon Sequestration Strategies in a Post-Kyoto World: Is There a Place for Ag and Forest Investments? (Washington, DC — February 5, 2003)
• Reporting on Climate Change: Understanding the Science (Washington, DC — 2003)
• Dialogue on Potential Role of Financial Incentives in a Clean Energy Future (Washington, DC — 2000)
• Clean Air and Clean Energy in Georgia (Atlanta, GA — 1999)
• Climate Change: US Legislative and Executive Agency Developments (Washington, DC — 1999)
• Greening of Industry Conference (Chapel Hill, NC — 1999)
• Innovative Strategies for Improving Air Quality (Atlanta, GA — 1998)
• Roundtable on “Lessons Learned for the Acid Rain Program Applicable to an Emission Cap and Allowance Trading System for Greenhouse Gases” (Washington, DC — 1997)

Community Environmental Health and Justice Program

• Clean Drinking Water for Consumers Workshop (Washington, DC — 1997)
• Lead and the Law Conference: “Enforcement of New Federal Disclosure Requirements” (Washington, DC — 1997)
• Health Promotion Through Pollution Prevention: Investigating Toxic Releases in Your Community (for the National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations) (1994)

Engangered Environmental Laws

• “Climate Change and the Constitution: Global Warming Litigation Heats Up,” Panel Discussion Co-Sponsored by ELI and the National Association of Environmental Law Societies (Washington, DC — November 2007)
• “Risky Business? Massachusetts, Risk-Based Harm, and Standing in the D.C. Circuit,” Panel Discussion (with Amanda Leiter, Chet Thompson, David Weinberg, and Brian Wolfman) (Washington, DC — September 2007)
• “Massachusetts v. EPA: What are the Implications for the Future?” Panel Discussion Co-Sponsored by ELI and the ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, Constitutional Law Committee (Washington, DC — May 2007). Listen to a recording of the seminar.
• “Access to Courts after Massachusetts v. EPA: Who Has Been Left Standing?” Panel Discussion Co-Sponsored by ELI and the ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, Constitutional Law Committee (Washington, DC — May 2007). Listen to a recording of the seminar.
• “Access to Courts after Massachusetts v. EPA: Who Will Be Left Standing?” Panel Discussion Co-Sponsored by ELI and the ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, Constitutional Law Committee (Washington, DC — December 2006). Listen to a recording of the seminar.
• “Supreme Court Preview,” Panel Discussion (with Professor Richard Lazarus, E. Donald Elliott, and Amanda Cohen Leiter) (Washington, DC — October 2006). Listen to a recording of the seminar.
• “After Rapanos and Carabell,” Seminar Co-Sponsored by ELI, the DC Bar, and the ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, Constitutional Law Committee (Washington, DC — July 2006)
• Legal Briefing on Supreme Court Decision in Rapanos v. United States, presented by ELI President Leslie Carothers to House Legislative Staff (Washington, DC — June 2006)
• “Trends in Constitutional Environmental Law,” Panel Discussion at Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (with ELI Visiting Scholar Jim May) (Eugene, OR — March 2006)
• “The Jurisprudential Legacy of William Rehnquist on Environmental, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Takings Law,” Discussion with ELI Visiting Scholar Jim May (Washington, DC — March 2006)
• “Hot Topics: Clean Water Cases Before the U.S. Supreme Court: Constitutional Issues in Rapanos and Carabell,” ABA Annual Conference on Environmental Law (Keystone, CO — March 2006)
• “What Do Environmentalists Want from the Supreme Court?” Panel Discussion (Washington, DC — August 2005)
• Keynote Address by ELI President Leslie Carothers, Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (Eugene, OR — March 2005)
• “Judging NEPA: Judicial Decisionmaking in Environmental Impact Assessment Cases,” Panel Discussion at Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (Eugene, OR — March 2005)
• “How to Protect Environmental Protections?” Seminar Co-Sponsored by ELI, the American Constitution Society, and the Center for American Progress (Washington, DC — March 2005)
• “Environmental Law in the Courts,” Panel Discussion, University of Chicago Law School (Chicago, IL — January 2005)
• “Environmental Law Update 2004: The Practical Impacts of This Year’s Legal Struggles,” Panel Discussions (Washington, DC — March 2004)
  • Do Endangered Species Act Challenges Still Have Teeth?
  • What Roles Should Federal and State Governments Play in Fighting Air Pollution?
  • Who Should Pay for Food Safety?
• “‘New Federalism’ in a New Deal World: Ramifications for Civil Rights and Environmental Protection,” Panel Discussion Co-Sponsored by ELI, the Brennan Center for Justice, and the American Constitution Society (NYU Chapter) (New York, NY — October 2003)
• “Supreme Court Review and Preview,” Panel Discussion (with Professor Richard Lazarus) (Washington, DC — October 2003)
• “Arsenic and Old Case(s): Debating the Constitutional Scope of the Safe Drinking Water Act and Other National Environmental Laws: A Panel Discussion by Counsel in Nebraska v. EPA” (Washington, DC — June 2003)
• “The New Judicial Activism: Consequences for Environmental Protection and Beyond,” Seminar Co-Sponsored by ELI, the University of Chicago Law School Environmental Law Society, and the American Constitution Society (Chicago Chapter) (with Professor Cass Sunstein) (Chicago, IL — May 2003)

Environmental Information and Accounting Program

• The Next Frontier: Individual and Household Environmental Behavior (April 22, 2005)
• Libraries as a Community Resource for Environmental Information: An Online Dialogue (September 19-29, 2000)
• EPA State Stakeholder Forum on Public Information Policies (Chicago, IL — 1999)
• Symposium on Legal Implications of Environmental Electronic Reporting (Washington, DC — 1999)

Nanotechnology Initiative

• “Where Does the Nano Go? End-of-Life Regulation of Nanotechnologies?” Webcast of the Report Launch event at the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington, DC — 2007)
• Nanotechnology Governance: Environmental Management from a Global Perspective (Nashville, TN — 2006)
• Securing the Promise of Nanotechnology: Is U.S. Environmental Law Up To the Job? (Washington, DC — 2005)