Webinar: Explaining the Low Carbon Fuel Standard
(LCFS)
1.0 Total Participatory MCLE Credits (No Ethics)
Thursday, March 25, 2010,
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time.
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has recently finalized
its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) that calls for the reduction of
greenhouse gas emissions from California’s transportation
fuels by 10 percent by 2020. The LCFS is intended to reduce 16
million metric tons of GHG emissions by 2020 from the largest GHG
emitting sector in California and to boost the market for
alternative-fuel vehicles. This regulation has been described by
ARB representatives as the most important early-action called for
under AB 32 – the Global Warming Solutions Act (Nunez, 2006).
This program is intended to introduce practitioners to this
important new regulation by policy analysts who were instrumental
in developing it. Speakers: Simon
Mui and Floyd Vergara.
To register, see Explaining the Low Carbon Fuel Standard
(LCFS) or go to www.calbar.org/online-cle and click on
"Tele-Seminars and Webinars".
2010 Student Negotiations
Competition
The 11th Annual Student Environmental
Negotiations Competition
Registration Deadline: January
22, 2010
In today’s law practice, almost all civil cases settle
before trial. Negotiation skills are essential. In this unique one
day competition open to all California law students, two-person
teams from California law schools will negotiate a simulated
environmental dispute, judged
by environmental lawyers, judges and professional mediators.
For more information, see 2010 Student Negotiations
Competition.
2010 Diversity Fellowships
in Environmental Law
The Environmental Law Section is pleased to announce its
cosponsorship with the American Bar Association Section of
Environment, Energy, and Resources and The William & Flora
Hewlett Foundation of the 2010 Diversity Fellowships in
Environmental Law.
The ABA Diversity Fellowships in Environmental Law program is
designed to encourage students who bring diversity to the
environmental bar to pursue careers in environmental law. The
program is open to first and second year law students and third
year night students only. The deadline for applications is January
18, 2010. For more information, see 2010 Diversity Fellowships in
Environmental Law on the ABA site.
Environmental Law Executive
Committee Members Receive Clay Awards
Congratulations to ELS Executive Committee member Richard Drury and advisor James Wheaton on being named among the 2009 California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year. Drury and Wheaton were
honored for their lead role in bringing a Proposition 65 case to
force two large school bus companies to reduce emissions on buses
carrying schoolchildren in California.
2009 Student
Negotiations Competition
The 10th Annual Student Environmental Negotiations
Competition
Winners Announced!
Top Team: University of San Francisco - Team A
2. University of San Diego
- Team E
3. Chapman University -
Team D
4. University of San
Francisco - Team B
5. UC Berkeley - Team
J
6. UC Hastings - Team
I
7. UC Los Angeles - Team
N
8. Empire College School of
Law - Team S
9. Pepperdine - Team M /
Golden Gate University (tie for 9th) -
Team T
For more information and registration form, please see 2009 Student Negotiations Competition.
