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Volume 15, Issue 1, September 2004

Articles:

• Welcome Back! Director's Update
• Go West Young Environmentalist: the 2004 NAELS Conference
• Easing the Burden: LRAP
• New Agriculture Regulations
• Campus Climate Neutral: Changing the Campus Climate
• National Moot Court Competition at Pace
• ELS Activity Update: Georgetown, Santa Clara, U of IN-Bloomington

Welcome Back!: Director's Update
By Dan Worth, NAELS Execuitve Director

Greetings from Michigan where practically overnight the Ann Arbor campus has transformed from a quiet Midwestern town into a teeming hive of students...(more)

'Go West Young Environmentalist': The 2004 NAELS Annual Conference
By Dave Campbell, NAELS Co-chair

"Conservation, then, is keeping the resource in working order, as well as preventing overuse. Resources may get out of order before they are exhausted, sometimes while they are still abundant. Conservation, therefore, is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence or caution." - Aldo Leopold

Annual Conference

On March 26-28, 2004, approximately 60 students representing nearly 20 member ELSs gathered at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, site of this year's Annual Conference...(more)

Easing the Burden: Loan Repayment Assistance Programs
By Lee Paddock & Mike Murphy

So you want to work for the good guys after passing the bar, but your debt won't let you? (more)

Farmers Unaware of New Agriculture Regulations;
May Increase Legal Environmental Job Opportunities

Farmers may be waking up to an unexpected visit from the EPA inspector following recent legislation increasing the environmental responsibilities imposed on farmers. (more)

Campus Climate Neutral (CCN):
"Changing the Campus Climate"
By Dan Worth, NAELS Execuitve Director

This summer I went to see The Day After Tomorrow, a film that truly viewed climate change through a Hollywood lens. (more)

Each February, Pace University School of Law has the privilege of hosting the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition. (more)

Law School Activity Reports

Georgetown Law Environmental Law Forum
By Kristen Hite

During the past year, the Georgetown Environmental Law Forum invited several distinguished speakers to campus including Executive Director of the Sierra Club, Carl Pope...In an effort to make the campus more environmentally friendly, the Environmental Law Forum campaigned for the University to purchase 10% wind energy to power the school. (more)

Santa Clara University ELS
By Lindsay Burrows

Thanks in large part to the hard work and organization of ELS president Elizabeth Pianca, the Santa Clara ELS will be co-sponsoring a Public Interest and Social Justice Summer Fellowship in environmental law this summer 2004 open to all Santa Clara University law students. (more)

Indiana School of Law
By Dave Campbell

This summer, the denizens of leafy Bloomington hung out with Brood X. (more)