November 27, 2023

Indiana Environmental Law and Climate Change Adaptation

Climate change is already causing changes now, right here in the state of Indiana. This year’s spring was one of the five wettest in the...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Water
Services: Legal Education

Freitag Represents the Center at Public Affairs Governance Workshop in China

This past June, I accepted an invitation from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and Ocean University of China to...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Land, Water
Services: Nonprofit Support, Policy

Center Intern Researching IN’s Preparedness for Climate Change

This summer, Conservation Law Center is fortunate to have the help of Thalia Hobson, a summer research intern from Maurer Law School. Her...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Climate Change
Services: Legal Education

Recycling

Reduce, reuse, and recycle. These three tenets of environmentalism are what we have been taught our whole lives. Unfortunately, Recycling is not the bastion of...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Climate Change

Supreme Court stands with conservation groups in Lake Michigan beach access case

The public’s right to the Lake Michigan shoreline stands after the U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday it was denying a petition to hear an appeal...

Categories: Gunderson, News
Issues: Public Trust
Services: Legal Advocacy

U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Hear Lake Michigan Public Trust Case

Is your right to access Indiana’s Lake Michigan shoreline a national concern? On October 5th, the US Supreme Court was asked to decide if it...

Categories: Blog, Gunderson
Issues: Land, Public Trust, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

Water Quality Day

On August 25, Hoosiers will gather in Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Monroe County to celebrate Water Quality Day. As part of National Water Quality Month, Water...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Water
Services: Policy

Freitag leaving position at Sycamore Land Trust

Christian Freitag, executive director of Sycamore Land Trust for the past 18 years, has resigned to become president and director of the Conservation Law Center....

Categories: News

Sycamore Land Trust Director Christian Freitag to Succeed W. William Weeks as President and Director at Conservation Law Center

The Conservation Law Center, a non-profit environmental law firm based in Bloomington, has hired Christian Freitag to succeed W. William Weeks as president and director...

Categories: Blog

Changing Our Relationship with Plastic

Happy Earth Day! This week the CLC office has been buzzing with thoughts on how we can celebrate a day meant to promote environmental protection....

Categories: Blog
Issues: Climate Change

Conservation and Common Wealth

On March 2, CLC Director Bill Weeks delivered the Carlson Lecture at Indiana University School of Public Health....

Categories: Blog
Issues: Biodiversity
Services: Legal Advocacy

Did you see us at PIELC?

Last week, Sr. Attorney Jeff Hyman presented two panels at the Public Interest and Environmental Law Conference in Oregon. The two panels are described below....

Categories: Blog
Issues: Public Trust
Services: Legal Advocacy

Landmark Public Trust Case a Major Win for Hoosiers

The Conservation Law Center, with attorney Jeff Hyman leading the litigation, represented environmental groups Alliance for the Great Lakes and <a target="_blank"...

Categories: Blog, Gunderson
Issues: Public Trust, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

We’ve Got Quite the Team!

This month we're celebrating our Graduate Fellow Attorneys and their accomplishments. We hired two new Fellows this fall and are sending off our third this...

Categories: Blog
Services: Legal Education

A Letter from our President

The facts about water make you think: human beings are about 70% water. And so is our home; the earth’s surface is about 70% water....

Categories: Blog

A Letter to the Editor: We all need clean, abundant water

August is Water Quality Month (#WQM17). What’s on tap? A reminder to celebrate Indiana’s bounty of rivers, lakes and streams. They support a billion-dollar recreational...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Water
Services: Policy

Former Fellow Spotlight: Peter Murrey

I worked as a Graduate Fellow at the Conservation Law Center for two years directly after law school. During that time, I gained a wide...

Categories: Blog
Services: Legal Education

Advocacy group seeks protection of Indiana’s water resources

Carol Kugler, a reporter for The Herald-Times in Bloomington, IN, attended CLC's recent presentation at Green Drinks Bloomington.

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Categories: News
Issues: Water
Services: Legal Advocacy, Policy

Intervention Granted on Essroc Cement Corp. v. Clark County Board of Zoning Appeals

The Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice and Conservation Law Center, has been granted intervention in a trial court proceeding in which the right to burn...

Categories: Blog, Essroc Cement Corp
Issues: Climate Change, Environmental Justice
Services: Legal Advocacy

What the Appelate Court’s Ruling Means for The Public Trust

On December 7th, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that Indiana's Lake Michigan shoreline is held in trust for the public up to the ordinary...

Categories: Blog, Gunderson
Issues: Biodiversity, Land, Public Trust, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

A Win for the Public Trust

The Public Trust Doctrine grants access to use the land between the low and high water marks of Indiana's Lake Michigan shoreline.

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Categories: Blog, Gunderson
Issues: Public Trust, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

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