News

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  E&D Colloquium Series. Unable to Attend? Watch the Video!
  September 7
  Video recordings of E&D events
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  James J. Kopp First-year Research Awards for Exploration and Discovery Students
  April 8
  The Aubrey R. Watzek Library and the Exploration and Discovery Program would like to bring your attention to a new opportunity designed to showcase the work of Lewis & Clark first-year students:  the James J. Kopp First-year Research Awards.
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  NEDC by the Numbers
  January 28
  Here is a quick summary of some of the things we’ve achieved over the past five years, by the numbers.
• 2017 Earthrise Successes & Challenges
  December 12
  Please consider a year end gift to Earthrise.
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  Welcome Earthrise Class of 2017-2018!
  October 6
  Welcome to our Earthrise student clerks for the 2017-2018 law school year!
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  Lewis & Clark Student Aims High With Rocket Launch
  May 14
  Benno Kolland BA ’21, a rising sophomore from Santa Cruz, California, has built and launched a rocket to a height of two miles—higher than the altitude of Mount Hood. His next step? Bringing commercial space flight within reach.
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  Students Utilize Math to Help Solve Gerrymandering
  April 24
  With concerns over gerrymandering increasingly at the forefront of American politics, three undergraduates will work at the Voting Rights Data Institute this summer to help develop mathematical solutions to partisan gerrymandering. The six-week interdisciplinary program is a collaboration of Tufts University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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  Representative Earl Blumenauer: PILP’s 2018 Amburgey Award Recipient
  February 1

  PILP honored Representative Earl Blumenauer with the Larry K. Amburgey Commitment to Public Interest Law Award on February 17, 2018, at the PILP Auction.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
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  Introducing Earthrise’s 2017 Summer Clerks
  May 10
  Earthrise Law Center is excited to introduce the six law clerks that will be working at the Earthrise offices in Portland and in San Francisco this summer.
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  Earthrise Legal Fellow Says Farewell
  April 10
  Founders Legacy Legal Fellow, Ryan Shannon, leaves Earthrise Law Center and moves on to a great position as Staff Attorney at Center for Biological Diversity. We’ll miss him, but he’s not going far.
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  “Around the Pier” with Samantha Murray
  March 22
  Murray is the new executive director of the Biodiversity Masters program at UCSD’s Scripps Institute of Oceanography. She is an Earthrise alumni from 2003. 
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  Earthrise Files Petition to Address “Zombie Permits”
  March 8
  Earthrise filed a petition today on behalf of the Northwest Environmental Advocates (NWEA), the Northwest Environmental Defense Center (NEDC), and fish advocate, Bill Bakke, seeking to force Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to address the enormous backlog of administratively continued Clean Water Act permits, known as “Zombie Permits.”
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  Earthrise Clinic Now Accepting Applications for Fall 2017
  February 28

  It’s time to apply to be a part of the Earthrise Clinic for the 2017-18 School Year! Deadline is March 24th. 
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  Meet the 2016-2017 Earthrise Class
  November 16
  Meet the students of the 2016-2017 Earthrise Class. They are already hard at work on cases involving a methanol pipeline, timber sales and water quality issues.
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  Earthrise Reaches Settlement to Protect the Connecticut River
  May 6
  Earthrise protects another river from polluters! Yesterday, the District of Massachusetts federal court approved a settlement that will require Chang Farms to comply with its Clean Water Act permit and cease its illegal discharges into the Connecticut River.
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  Mellon-funded First World War Centenary Exhibition
  September 20
  “The Great War 100 Years Later” is a centenary commemoration of the First World War funded by a Mellon grant for faculty/student collaborative research.
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  Rising Issues #10 Earthrise Wins Major Clean Water Act Case
  April 3
  Earthrise settled a major case against Magic Mountain theme park in California. Read, and hear, all about it in our recent newsletter! 
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  PEAC Summer Law Clerk Gains Trial Experience
  July 17
  7/17/12 - Liv Brumfield, one of PEAC’s five summer externs, writes about her experience supporting a team of attorneys in a week-long Clean Water Act trial in Wisconsin district court.
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  Now Accepting Applications for PEAC Class
  April 9
  PEAC is now accepting applications for the 2012-2013 Environmental Litigation Clinic! Read on for application instructions and details.
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  PEAC Scores Big for Water Quality and Salmon
  February 29
  PEAC attorneys Allison LaPlante, Dan Mensher, and Dan Rohlf helped their clients win a ruling on temperature standards that will help protect water quality, salmon, bull trout, and steelhead.
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  PEAC Student Presents Report on Oregon Invasive Species
  February 28
  PEAC student Kathryn Walter presented a report to the Oregon Invasive Species Council. The report offered recommendations aimed at preventing the spread of invasive species.
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  Apply for PEAC’s Summer Externship!
  January 27
  PEAC is seeking applications for its new summer of 2012 externship program.
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  PEAC Fall 2011 Newsletter
  October 27
  Topics include the Boardman settlement, PEAC’s new class, California condors, and the CRC.
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  PEAC Class of 2011-2012
  September 28
  PEAC offers hands-on opportunities for law students to be involved in real-world practical advocacy at a level unmatched by clinical programs around the nation.
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  PEAC Welcomes Summer 2011 Law Clerks
  June 9
  Rochelle Martinsson, Jessica Gallagher, and Aurelia Erickson serve as PEAC’s summer law clerks.
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  Multimedia: Environmental law clinics offer students local and global litigation experience
  April 28
  Featuring the environmental law clinics at Lewis & Clark.
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  Protecting the Willamette River
  January 12
  PEAC certified law student Jessica Johnson argued before the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals on behalf of PEAC clients.
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  Tara Zuardo, PEAC Student
  April 20
  Student Spotlight: Tara Zuardo 2009-2010
  
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  PEAC Spring 2010 Newsletter
  April 16
  Our Spring newsletter is here. Read on…
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  Students Win Third in A Row – National Environmental Law Moot Court
  February 22
  Lewis & Clark law students win third national environmental law moot competition in a row.