AGENDA: New Challenges for Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference on Environmental Law

Workshop held Sept. 18-19, 1989; conference held Oct. 12-13, 1989, in Boulder, Colorado. Conference speakers included University of Colorado School of Law professors Daniel Barstow Magraw and Lawrence J. MacDonnell. Contents of papers from workshop and conference: To protect developing city by the enactment of local laws and regulations / Wu Zilin -- Legislative control of air pollution & water pollution of the P.R.China / Xiao Longan -- The law of natural conservation in China / Ma Xiang-cong -- \u27Weighing environmental risks : EPA\u27s unfinished business\u27, Environment, vol. 30, no. 6, July/August 1988, p. 14-17, 34-39 / Richard Morgenstern, Stuart Sessions -- The National Environmental Policy Act : no longer a teenager, but not yet grown-up / George W. (Rock) Pring -- International environmental issues [outline] / Cheng Zheng-Kang, Daniel Magraw -- Existing legal treatment of developing countries : differential, contextual, and absolute norms / Daniel Barstow Magraw -- \u27Global change and our common future\u27, Environment, vol. 31, no. 5, June 1989, pp. 16-20, 40-43 / Gro Harlem Brundtland -- \u27Mission to planet Earth revisited : an update on studies of global change\u27, Environment, vol. 31, no. 3, April 1989, pp. 6-11, 31-35 / Thomas F. Malone, Robert Corell -- \u27The environmental effects of the high dam at ASWAN\u27, Environment, vol. 30, no. 7, September 1988, pp. 4-11, 34-40 / Gilbert F. White -- Reconsidering water quality protection in the United States / Lawrence J. MacDonnell [outline] -- The United States experience with air pollution control [outline] / A. Dan Tarlock -- United States hazardous waste law and policy [outline] / A. Dan Tarlock -- \u27Air pollution : assessing total exposure in developing countries\u27, Environment, vol. 30, no. 10, December 1988, pp. 16-20, 28-30, 33-35 / Kirk R. Smith -- The Marine Environmental Protection Law of the People\u27s Republic of China [Chinese version] / Ye Jianying. The Marine Environmental Protection Law of the People\u27s Republic of China [unofficial English translation] / Ye Jianyin

AGENDA: Shale Plays in the Intermountain West: Legal and Policy Issues

This one-day symposium to be held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Denver will address the technology, economics, environmental impacts, and regulatory issues associated with shale gas development in the Rocky Mountain region. The purpose of this event is to facilitate productive dialogue among a wide range of stakeholders and interested parties to guide policy decisions

AGENDA: External Development Affecting the National Parks: Preserving The Best Idea We Ever Had

Conference organizers and/or faculty included University of Colorado School of Law professors Lawrence J. MacDonnell and Daniel Magraw. The conference will be held at the Aspen Lodge, adjacent to Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park, Colorado. It was Wallace Stegner who called the national parks the best idea we ever had. The continuing increases in usage attest to their popularity. National parks are created to preserve areas of special scenic and cultural value for enjoyment and use. Managing the parks in a manner that protects the important values and purposes for which they were created presents important and difficult problems of law and policy (see the related article in this newsletter issue by David Mastbaum). The conference focuses on the conflicts which arise when activities outside park boundaries significantly impair the values for which the park was created. An expert group of speakers will look at current problems involving external threats to national parks, examine legal issues associated with protecting park resources, consider institutional and jurisdictional problems, and discuss possible approaches for improving park protection

AGENDA: Water Resources Allocation: Laws and Emerging Issues: A Short Course

Even before the [Natural Resources Law] Center was established [in the fall of 1981], the [University of Colorado] School of Law was organizing annual natural resources law summer short courses. To date four programs have been presented: - July 1980: Federal Lands, Laws and Policies-and the Development of Natural Resources - June 1981: Water Resources Allocation: Laws and Emerging Issues - June 1982: New Sources of Water for Energy Development and Growth: lnterbasin Transfers - June 1983: Groundwater: Allocation; Development and Pollution (Reprinted from Resource Law Notes, no. 1, Jan. 1984, at 1.) Speakers and instructors for this short course included University of Colorado School of Law professors James N. Corbridge, Jr., David H. Getches, and Charles F. Wilkinson

AGENDA: Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions

Sponsors: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; BP America; Holland & Hart; Patrick, Miller & Krope, P.C.; The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Rocky Mountain Natural Resource Center of the National Wildlife Federation, Western Water Assessment. Exploring the legal and political dimensions that climate change will bring to the American West will be the focus of the CU-Boulder Natural Resources Law Center\u27s 27th Annual Summer Conference. Titled Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions, the conference will be held June 7-9 at the Fleming Law Building on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. Participants will explore a wide range of issues from climate science to how climate change will impact water and energy resources; agriculture; wildlife habitat; land use and planning; state, federal and international law; and public and private initiatives. This is a conference for people who face decisions relating to climate change and for the lawyers and others who advise the decision-makers, said law Professor Mark Squillace, director of CU-Boulder\u27s Natural Resources Law Center. We have an outstanding lineup of speakers and panelists who represent a broad array of backgrounds and expertise, ranging from climate scientists renowned in their fields to energy company executives, elected representatives and political advisers, environmental lawyers and heads of nonprofits. Ray Dempsey, vice president and commercial manager of the Western Hemisphere for the international energy company BP America Inc., will deliver the opening address June 7 at 8:15 a.m. Other speakers will include Trigg Talley, acting director of the U.S. Department of State\u27s Office of Global Change; Fabio Feldman, executive secretary of Brazil\u27s São Paulo Forum on Global Climate Change and Biodiversity; and James Reilly, senior energy and environment adviser at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C

AGENDA: Moving the West\u27s Water to New Uses: Winners and Losers

Conference organizers and/or faculty included University of Colorado Law School professors Lawrence J. MacDonnell and Mark Squillace. Moving the West\u27s Water to New Uses: Winners and Losers will be the theme for this year\u27s water conference, June 6-8 at the Law School in Boulder. The conference will consider the changing demands for water in the West and the need to reallocate a portion of the existing uses of water to new uses. The first day will provide the background by looking at the most likely sources of water to meet these demands, including agriculture, federal water projects, interstate transfers, and tribal water rights. The second day introduces a number of issues raised by reallocation of water including public interest considerations, area of origin effects, and the role of water districts. The third day sets out state laws governing transfers and exchanges and provides examples of several transfers

AGENDA: The Past, Present, and Future of Our Public Lands: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Public Land Law Review Commission\u27s Report, One Third of the Nation\u27s Land

Sponsors: US Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management; Western Resource Advocates; The Wilderness Society; National Wildlife Federation; Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Grants Program, Red Lodge Clearinghouse; United States Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Conference moderators, panelists and speakers included University of Colorado Law School professors William Boyd, David H. Getches, Sarah Krakoff, Mark Squillace and Charles F. Wilkinson. In 1964 Congress established the Public Land Law Review Commission to review the public land laws of the United States and to determine whether revisions were necessary. The Commission was comprised of six members appointed by the President, six by the U.S. Senate and six by the U.S. House. Congressman Wayne Aspinall of Colorado served as chair. In 1970, the Commission issued its report - One Third of Our Nation\u27s Lands. This influential report became a blueprint for much future public lands legislation including, most notably, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the National Forest Management Act. As we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of this seminal document, it is time to reflect on the need for a new Commission and a new report to address the challenges for our public lands in the 21st century. The NRLC\u27s 2010 Martz summer conference will offer a venue to consider this important idea