Energy and Environmental Justice

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Open to the public

Environmental Justice is an opportunity and too often overlooked area of environmental law. It deals with the disproportionate impact that pollution, resource use, and other environmental topics have on communities of color and poor people. This lunch talk will be focused mainly on distribution issues within Energy law, but will also discuss some other Environmental Justice topics more generally. Specifically, we would like to discuss (1) the placement of Nuclear Power plants within communities of color; (2) toxic waste and its Environmental Justice implications more generally; (3) Environmental Justice implications of government initiatives both National (Clean Power Plan) and local (lead in paint and water supplies and its developmental effects)