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Mining

Mining, whether it is for coal, oil, aluminium, uranium, silver, or gold, is notoriously damaging to the environment. Often when we think of these impacts,...
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Cities

The location of a city is almost always dictated by its proximity to water. Whether it be for agriculture, shipping, or drinking, water is a...
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Agricultural Runoff

According to the EPA 32% of our country’s water is used for agriculture, but all of that water has to go somewhere. Some of the...
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A Note From Center Director Christian Freitag

We wanted to send a friendly note to our supporters to let you know about some of our recent work, and just to say thank...
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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...
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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...
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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...

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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Conservation and Common Wealth

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

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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...

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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...
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