People Places Planet Podcast

What is driving this year’s record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season? And what implications is it having on coastal communities in the Gulf of Mexico? In this podcast, Amy Reed, Director of ELI’s Gulf of Mexico program, discusses the 2020 hurricane season and what it means for those who call the Gulf home.

Rebecca Kihslinger, Director of ELI’s Wetlands Program, discusses a new ELI research report that aims to identify some of the main impediments to efficiency in compensatory mitigation project review, as well as best practices to improve the process and ensure timely, ecologically viable mitigation outcomes.

As renewable energy development is happening throughout the country, changes in environmental regulations and related court decisions are impacting project development. Brooke Marcus Wahlberg, a Partner at Nossaman LLP, and her colleague Rebecca Barho, explain.

International environmental law is often characterized as fragmented and heterogeneous; there is currently no single, overarching framework that outlines a set of rules and criteria of general application in international environmental law. In the latest episode of People Places Planet Podcast, we explore the recent push for a set of globally recognized principles on environmental law—called the Global Pact for the Environment—under the United Nations.

We talk to Prof. Randall S. Abate about his forthcoming book, What Can Animal Law Learn from Environmental Law? (2d ed. ELI Press 2020). Tune in to learn about what animal law can learn from environmental law and how the two movements can better coordinate their common objectives.

There are many benefits to solar energy, but what about its impacts on wildlife? In this episode, we "engage the experts” and listen in on a conversation between Brooke Marcus Wahlberg, a Partner at Nossaman LLP, and Dr. Karl Kosciuch, a senior biologist at Western Ecosystems Technology, Inc.

We talk to Prof. Jonathan Rosenbloom about his new book, Remarkable Cities and the Fight Against Climate Change: 43 Recommendations to Reduce Greenhouse Gases and the Communities That Adopted Them (ELI Press 2020). Tune in to learn about the range of ways in which local communities can use enacted ordinances to mitigate climate change while increasing their capacity to respond and adapt to its most harmful consequences.

Since 1989, ELI has honored over 200 champions of wetlands protection through the National Wetlands Awards program. In this episode, we invite our 2020 National Wetlands Awardees to share their thoughts on the same question: What is the importance of wetlands protection now and in the future?

There are many benefits to wind energy, but what about its impacts on wildlife? In this episode, we "engage the experts” and listen in on a conversation between Brooke Marcus Wahlberg, a Partner at Nossaman LLP, and Joy Page, Director of the Renewable Energy and Wildlife team at the Defenders of Wildlife.

Despite our era of information and disinformation, a new report from ELI reveals judicial agreement on the causes, extent, urgency, and consequences of climate change. In this special Earth Day episode, ELI President Scott Fulton talks to the report’s author, Dr. Maria Banda, to learn more.

Drinking water contamination in Flint, Michigan, has garnered nationwide attention, but it is neither isolated, nor a primarily urban problem. In this episode, we talk to Madeline Kane about her article in the April issue of ELR—The Environmental Law Reporter, to learn more about the problem, its causes, and potential solutions.

In this episode, Kevin Minoli, a partner at Alston & Bird, talks to former EPA General Counsel Gary Guzy, who served as General Counsel from July 1999 to January 2001. This episode is part of a year-long series of conversations with former EPA General Counsels.

What do everyday practices like streaming a movie online, purchasing a new pair of jeans, or eating a burger have to do with climate change? In this episode, Senior Attorney Linda Breggin sits down with Tatiana Schlossberg, author of Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have, to find out.

On January 10, 2020, CEQ proposed a comprehensive rewrite of the NEPA regulations. To help listeners better understand the proposal, ELI Senior Attorney Jim McElfish talks to Nick Yost, one of the nation’s most experienced NEPA lawyers and the primary drafter of the original 1978 regulations that have governed NEPA practice for the last 40 years.

In this episode, Kevin Minoli, a partner at Alston & Bird, talks to former EPA General Counsel Ann Klee, who served as General Counsel from June 2004 to July 2006. This episode is part of a year-long series of conversations with former EPA General Counsels.