[Law-envtlcert] February 21--free breakfast and lunch--Environmental Program symposium

[Hannah Wiseman]

Dear students interested in Environmental, Energy, Land Use, and Natural
Resources Law,

 

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. 

 

The symposium will be held on Friday, February 21, 2020, from 9:30 AM-3:15
PM in Room 208.  Please register now at the following link:
https://fsu.forms-db.com/view.php?id=879833.

 

Professor Richard Briffault of Columbia Law School will be our keynote
speaker. Other speakers will include Alexandra Klass, Distinguished McKnight
University Professor, University of Minnesota Law School; John R. Nolon,
Professor of Law, Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law; Ashira
Ostrow, Peter S. Kalikow Distinguished Professor of Real Estate and Land Use
Law, Hofstra Law; Erin Scharff, Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State
University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; Rick Su, Professor of Law,
University of North Carolina School of Law; Sarah Swan, Assistant Professor,
FSU College of Law; Shelley Welton, Assistant Professor of Law, University
of South Carolina School of Law; and Michael Wolf, Richard E. Nelson Eminent
Scholar Chair in Local Government Law, University of Florida Levin College
of Law.

 

The full event description is as follows: 

 

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.

 

Best wishes,

 

HJW

 

Hannah Wiseman, Attorneys' Title Professor and Associate Dean for
<http://www.law.fsu.edu/academics/jd-program/environmental-energy-land-use-l
aw> Environmental Programs

Florida State University College of Law

425 West Jefferson St. 

Tallahassee, FL 32306

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850-645-0073

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