Contributing Authors

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Contributing Authors

Teresa Clemmer

Teresa Clemmer is an attorney with extensive experience in environmental and natural resources law,

including air quality, water quality, wetlands, oil spill prevention and response, contaminated site cleanup,

solid and hazardous waste mana gement, public lands, natural resource management, and endangered spe-

cies. She is presently a member of the law rm of Bessenyey & Van Tuyn, LLC, in Anchorage, Alaska,

representing conservation-minded clients in a wide range of matters and projects. Before joining the rm,

Teresa spent four years as a law professor at Vermont Law School, helping to train the next generation of

environmental lawyers. She taught courses on air pollution and environmental law, served as acting direc-

tor of the Environmental and Natural Resources L aw Clinic, a nd published scholarly work relating to

climate change. Before her adventures in academia, Teresa practiced environmental law with the law rms

of Cooper, White & Cooper LLP and Perkins Coie, and later as a sta attorney with the nonprot Trust-

ees for Alaska. Teresa’s achievements include successfu l litigation prompting EPA to update its outdated

national air pollution standards for nitric acid plants; successfu l litigation preventing the construction of a

liqueed natural gas termina l on Passamaquoddy tribal lands in Maine, which posed a threat to both Pas-

samaquoddy culture and endangered Northern right whales; and successful advocacy before the U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers to protect communities and ecologically sensitive areas of Puerto Rico from the harm-

ful eects of a proposed natural gas pipeline. Teresa received her law degree from Georgetown University

and her undergraduate degree from Princeton University.

Hannah Connor

Hannah M. M. Connor is an attorney in the A nimal Protection Litigation section of the Humane Soci-

ety of the United States. Her principal practice areas include environmental, administrative, and animal

law. Ms. Connor is committed to employing laws, including t he Clean Water Act, the Clean A ir Act, the

Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act,

to further the rights of communities, animals, a nd the natural environment by addressing a nd preventing

the harms caused by the industria lization of anima l agriculture a nd encouraging healthy ecosystems by

supporting sustainable food systems. She has written, presented, and litigated on a range of issues relating

to the industria lization of animal agriculture. Prior to joining the Humane Society in 2011, Ms. Connor

was an attorney with the Waterkeeper Alliance. She received her undergraduate degree from Boston Col-

lege and her law degree from Vermont Law School.

John H. Davidson

John Davidson is President of the Northern Prairies Land Trust and a law professor at the University of

South Dakota School of Law, a position he has held since 1972. He has authored numerous articles, law

casebooks, a nd treatises in the elds of agricu ltural law, water and irrigation law, and environmental law.

In 1995, President William J. Clinton appointed John to the Western Water Policy Review Commission.

He has long held an association with the conservation movement, including several terms on the Board of

the South Dakota A ssociation of Conservation Districts, and his involvement in pro bono environmental

litigation has been continuous since the early 1970s. He ha s taught the course titled Agriculture and the

Environment at the Vermont Law School. He received his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest Univer-

sity, his law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and his LL.M. in Natura l Resources

from the George Washington University Law School.

George Kimbrell

George Kimbrell is Senior Attorney for the Center for Food Safety (CFS), where he practices environ-

mental and administrative law. George’s litigation and policy work spans a broad range of CFS program

areas, including: genetically engineered (GE) foods; tra nsgenic plants, trees and anima ls; food labeling;

food safety and contamination; organic standards; factory farming pollution; aquaculture; pesticides; agri-