2009-2010 Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review Conference

April 16, 2010
2105 Rayburn House Office Building, Capitol Hill
Washington, DC

Welcome

  • Leslie Carothers, President, Environmental Law Institute
  • Michael P. Vandenbergh, Tarkington Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
  • Patricia A. Moye, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review
  • Linda K. Breggin, Senior Attorney, Environmental Law Institute

 

Super Wicked Problems and Climate Change: Restraining the Present to Liberate the Future

ELPAR News Coverage

Academics, Attorneys Delve Into Prospects For Using Tort Law in Carbon Sequestration

By Alan Kovski

A system of federal law and regulation for carbon sequestration that introduces strict legal liability for some categories of problems could add clarity but could also be a disincentive to sequestration and could stir a federal-state conflict, according to participants in a March 22 discussion.