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CONTENTS
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Meetings
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a Tree |
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Enviro
Law: An Overview
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The
Electoral Battleground |
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Real Fans Recycle
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Calendar of Events |
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First Meeting will be scheduled in late September. Check your
e-mail for time
and date. Check the calendar below for other upcoming events.
Environmental
Law Section - Have a free lunch with environmetnal lawyers. See
website for details. Next meeting at the Arkansas Soil and Water
Conservation Commission scheduled October 12. This
is a great experience for law students - I highly recommend it.
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Plant a Tree – Plant
a Whole Lot of Trees
Tree Streets is organized exclusively for a charitable purpose to benefit the
public by planting trees along streets within the urban neighborhoods of the
City of Little Rock, Arkansas generally bounded by I-630 on the north, Roosevelt
Road on the south, McAlmont Street on the east, and Woodrow Street on the west.
Additionally, the corporation is committed to educating the public of the benefits
of the trees within urban neighborhoods. For more information contact Courtney
Little at cl@ndcc.net.
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Environmental law: an overview
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was passed in 1970 along with the
Environmental Quality Improvement Act, the Environmental Education Act, and the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The main objective of these federal enactments
was to assure that the environment be protected against both public and private
actions that failed to take account of costs or harms inflicted on the eco-system.
The EPA was supposed to monitor and analyze the environment, conduct
research, and work closely with state and local governments to devise
pollution control
policies. NEPA (really enacted in 1969) has been described as one of Congress's
most far-reaching environmental legislation ever passed. The basic purpose
of NEPA is to force governmental agencies to consider the effects
on the environment
of their decisions. State laws also reflect the same concerns and common law actions in nuisance
allow adversely affected property owners to seek a judicial remedy for environmental
harms.
Content provided by Cornell University
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Electoral Battleground: The Environment
The presidential election
will be held this year and the two primary presidential candidates, President
George Bush and Senator John Kerry, are very
far apart
on many key environmental, energy, and resources issues. Let’s put
together an environmental research team and evaluate the Bush record and
Kerry plan.
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Real Fans Recycle
An effort is under way to
offer recycling at Little Rock Razorback
Football games
this year on September 18 and November 27. The "Real Fans Recycle" campaign
needs volunteers. We are doing
this because it costs the City of Little Rock
Parks Department $6000 in labor to clean up the War Memorial Golf Course after
each Little Rock Razorback game.
Real
Fans Recycle - will encourage fans, particularly tailgaters, to place their
recyclables (cans & bottles) in a white/clear bag and their waste
(garbage) in
a black bag & then to deposit black bags in garbage dumpsters
and clear bags in recycling containers. The card with instructions can be filled
out & turned in at the recycling sites for a prize drawing. Volunteer opportunity Number #1
Volunteers are needed to put together packets of 2 plastic bags & a card.
It is estimated that 6000 packets will be needed per game. Since the bags & cards
will have to be transported to & from Little Rock, only groups in the Little
Rock or central Arkansas area that can easily get the supplies (bags & cards) & return
the packets should volunteer. Since the first game is just 4 weeks away, 6000
packets need to be assembled in the next 2 weeks. The second group of 6000
will need to be assembled after September 18 and before early November. If
you know of volunteer groups that are interested in assembling packets please
contact: Carol Bevis at the Pulaski Co. Regional Solid Waste Management District
at 501-340-8787 or carol.bevis@pulaskiswdistrict.org
Volunteer opportunity Number #2
Volunteers will be needed to distribute packets (bags & cards) at the Little
Rock Razorback Games. Bags will be distributed as vehicles enter the parking
areas (War Memorial Golf Course & public parking areas) prior to the games.
Work shifts will be 4 hours. If you know if interested volunteers, contact:
Suzanne Hirrel at LRSO 501-671-2288 or shirrel@uaex.edu
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Calendar of Events
- Environmental
Law Section - Have a free lunch with environmetnal lawyers. See
website for details. Next meeting at the Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission
scheduled October 12.
- 12th Section
Fall Meeting October 6-10, 2004
Hundreds of environment, energy and natural resources lawyers will meet
this year in San Antonio for their annual conference. There are several
ways that law students can work as volunteers at the Section Fall Meeting.
In exchange, the Section offers opportunities for students to participate
free of charge in programs taking place at the meeting. For additional
information, call 312/988-5577.
- NAELS 2005 Annual Conference
- Tree Streets - Every Saturday,
8 am.
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