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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear students interested in Environmental, Energy, Land Use, and Natural Resources Law,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I hope that many of you will register for and attend FSU Law’s spring symposium event, which focuses on the issue of state preemption of local government laws in the areas of Energy Law and beyond. Students who attend will receive free breakfast, lunch, coffee, and snacks, and we have a great line-up of speakers. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The symposium will be held on <b><span style="color:red">Friday, February 21, 2020</span></b>, from <b><span style="color:red">9:30 AM-3:15 PM</span></b><span style="color:red"> </span>in <b><span style="color:red">Room 208</span></b>. Please register now at the following link: <span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="https://fsu.forms-db.com/view.php?id=879833">https://fsu.forms-db.com/view.php?id=879833</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Professor Richard Briffault</b> of Columbia Law School will be our keynote speaker. Other speakers will include <b>Alexandra Klass</b>, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota Law School; <b>John R. Nolon</b>, Professor of Law, Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law; <b>Ashira Ostrow, </b>Peter S. Kalikow Distinguished Professor of Real Estate and Land Use Law, Hofstra Law; <b>Erin Scharff</b>, Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; <b>Rick Su</b>, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law; <b>Sarah Swan</b>, Assistant Professor, FSU College of Law; <b>Shelley Welton</b>, Assistant Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law; and <b>Michael Wolf</b>, Richard E. Nelson Eminent Scholar Chair in Local Government Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The full event description is as follows: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The United States is undergoing a rapid energy transition. State and local clean-energy and carbon policies and declining renewable energy costs are driving expansive, rapid development of solar and wind farms and associated transmission lines. The United States also continues to be a world leader in oil and natural gas production due to drilling and hydraulic fracturing in shale formations. This has caused thousands of new wells to be drilled and has triggered the construction of new pipelines and export terminals, often in close proximity to human populations. Setting aside the question of environmental and other social costs, these trends have very positive economic effects. But local governments and their residents experience the brunt of the negative impacts in the form of increased truck traffic and road damage; noise, dust, and air pollution during construction; aesthetic changes; and many other externalities. Despite this concentration of impacts at the local level, state governments increasingly preempt local governments’ abilities to address these impacts through regulation or other tools. This symposium will explore the decline of local autonomy, both generally and in the area of energy law, and potential paths forward.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">HJW<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hannah Wiseman, Attorneys’ Title Professor and Associate Dean for <a href="http://www.law.fsu.edu/academics/jd-program/environmental-energy-land-use-law"><span style="color:blue">Environmental Programs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Florida State University College of Law<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">425 West Jefferson St. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Tallahassee, FL 32306<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:hwiseman@law.fsu.edu"><span style="color:blue">hwiseman@law.fsu.edu</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">850-645-0073<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Office: Roberts Hall, Room 237<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">SSRN author page: <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1331806"><span style="color:blue">http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1331806</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Faculty web page: <a href="http://www.law.fsu.edu/our-faculty/profiles/hwiseman"><span style="color:blue">http://www.law.fsu.edu/our-faculty/profiles/hwiseman</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>