Seminars & Staff

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ELI Report

Seminars:

ELI once again held its

annual Summer School

series, an array of courses

rst oered in 1992 that

serves as an introduction

to the legal and policy

foundations of environ-

mental protection. Among

this year’s experts were:

Dinah Bear, formerly of

the Council on Environ-

mental Quality, and John

Kostyack, National Wild-

life Federation, for NEPA,

ESA, and Fundamentals

of Environmental Law.

Patrick D. Traylor, Hogan

Lovells, for Clean Air. Al-

exandra Dunn, Association

of Clean Water Adminis-

trators, and Erin Flannery,

federal government water

attorney, for Clean Water.

Anna R. Kuperstein, Keller

and Heckman, LLP, and

Lewis J. Taylor, Venable

LLP, for Clean Land: Haz-

ardous Waste and Sites.

Gus B. Bauman, Beveridge

& Diamond, P.C., and

Sara C. Bronin, Center for

Energy & Environmental

Law, University of Con-

necticut School of Law,

for Land Use and the Law.

nomics and Policy. Since

graduation, Cory has

interned with Fundacion

Biosfera (an environmen-

tal NGO) in Argentina

and worked as a researcher

for 5 Lakes Energy in

Michigan. Most recently,

Cory helped organize and

facilitate a non-prot en-

vironmental community

service program called

the Green Economy

Leadership Training in an

underserved community

in Highland Park, Michi-

gan. His research interests

include policy and law

related to climate, carbon,

renewable energy, utility

regulation, and sheries

management.

Lynsey Gaudioso

graduated from Vanderbilt

University in 2010 with

majors in environmental

science and policy and

mathematics. She spent

the past year working in

Hanoi, Vietnam, as a Luce

Scholar at Centre of Live

& Learn for Environment

and Community, a local

NGO. Lynsey previously

worked for e Climate

Project and South Africa’s

Department of Environ-

mental Aairs and Tour-

ism where she worked on

marine invasive species

policy.

Ariana Spawn com-

pleted her undergradu-

ate degree in biology at

Brown University in May.

Her interests range from

the science and policy of

ocean management to

biodiversity conservation

and climate change. Prior

to joining ELI, she worked

on conservation issues at

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service and at Conserva-

tion International.

And Lynn L. Bergeson,

Bergeson & Campbell,

P.C., for e Law and Poli-

cy of Products Regulation.

ELI began a six-part

series on Toxic Substances

Control Act Reform. “Key

Perspectives on TSCA

Reform” set the stage for

subsequent issue-specic

panels by examining the

status of TSCA reform in

the larger context of feder-

al, state, and international

chemicals regulation. e

second seminar, “Standard

of Safety,” examined the

central issue of whether

and what standard of safe-

ty should replace TSCA’s

current “unreasonable risk”

standard for regulating

chemicals. “e Hazard,

Use, and Exposure Data”

explored reform of TSCA

requirements and proce-

dures for developing and

reporting data on chemical

hazards, use, and exposure.

ELI also hosted two

seminars on the Marcel-

lus Shale. e rst, Nuts

and Bolts of Marcellus

Shale Drilling and Frack-

ing, convened panelists to

discuss economic, energy,

environmental, and legal

developments in the ex-

ploitation of the Marcellus

Shale, which mirror those

of other gas elds across

the country. Beyond Mar-

cellus Shale: Policy Im-

plications of Natural Gas

Drilling and Fracking ad-

dressed policy implications

of gas shale drilling in a

national energy context.

For audio les, Power-

Points, and more informa-

tion about these seminars,

visit ELI’s members-only

archive at www.eli.org/

Associates/events_archive.

cfm.

Sta

ELI welcomed four new

research associates over the

summer.

Marion Boulicault grew

up in London, England,

but studied at the Uni-

versity of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill, where she

double majored in philoso-

phy and environmental

science and minored in

chemistry. At UNC, she

wrote her senior thesis on

community-based natural

resource management in

Southeast Asia and was

also involved in research

on indigenous land rights.

As a research associate, she

hopes to further these in-

terests while also exploring

new areas of the environ-

mental law eld, such as

food systems, agriculture,

and water rights.

J. Cory Connolly joins

ELI as a 2010 gradu-

ate from James Madison

College at Michigan

State University, where

he studied international

relations with specializa-

tions in Latin American

and Caribbean studies

and Environmental Eco-

“Beyond Marcellus Shale” panel discusses implications for bal-

ancing energy needs with environmental protection in the future.