At the Center
The Conservation Law Center helps clients solve natural resources conservation problems, works to improve the body of conservation law and policy, and educates second and third year law students, by offering excellent legal services without charge to conservation organizations.
Antidegradation Rulemaking
November 1, 2009
CLC attorneys and Clinic interns continue the CLC's multiyear involvement in Indiana's antidegradation rulemaking on behalf of client Alliance for the Great Lakes. The rulemaking is required under the Clean Water Act. After more than a year of stakeholder working groups and intense negotiations over the language of the rule, the draft rule issued by the agency is still unlikely to be approved by USEPA.
CLC Attorneys Present at LTA Rally
October 22, 2009
In mid-October, CLC attorneys presented workshops at the annual national meeting of the Land Trust Alliance in Portland, Oregon. Bill co-presented the workshop "Conservation Easements in a Changing World - Balancing Flexibility with Permanence." Bill, Andrea, and Jeff, along with Christian Freitag, executive director of our long-standing client Sycamore Land Trust, presented the workshop "Drafting Working Landscape Conservation Easements."
Ballast Water Treatment Regulations
October 15, 2009
CLC attorneys and Clinic interns advised long-standing client Great Lakes United as it prepares comments on the U.S. Coast Guard's proposed ballast water treatment regulations.
CLC Helps Friends of Patoka River Incorporate
October 2, 2009
With the legal assistance of CLC attorneys and Clinic interns, Friends of the Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge incorporated as a not-for-profit organization. The Friends' mission is to educate the public about the Patoka River NWF, located in southern Indiana near Oakland City, and to help protect its precious resources.