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News for Environmental Law and Policy Clinic

Nowlin and Lauer speak to Durham Council on the hazards of plastic waste and the viability of local efforts to reduce single-use bags
September 29, 2023
Nowlin: Businesses can create their own rules on single-use plastics, even with state blocking local ordinances
September 25, 2023
Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and Haw River Assembly keep plastics out of waterways with "trash trap"
September 13, 2023
Miller says regulators could measure emissions from individual industrial dairies "if they wanted to"
August 20, 2023
Longest: Development's large amount of impervious surface area "a one-two punch" for runoff issues, flooding potential
August 17, 2023
Longest urges preservation of Topsail Island's southern tip
July 10, 2023
Longest comments on the possibility of a settlement in North Carolina lawsuits over PFAS contamination
June 21, 2023
Lauer and Nowlin submit comments on EPA's Draft National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution
June 20, 2023
Longest says the state Department of Environmental Quality is failing its mandate to protect NC's air and water from pollution
May 30, 2023
Andrew Foster, Ryke Longest awarded newly endowed clinical professorships
May 15, 2023
Nowlin and Lauer will work on CRISP-funded team to quantify the environmental and social costs of plastics
May 4, 2023
Lee Miller elected chair of the board of The Academy of Food Law and Policy
March 22, 2023
Student team advances to semifinals of national environmental law moot court competition
March 16, 2023
Longest speaks at online forum on the continuing leaching of hazardous waste from Alcoa sites near Badin and questions why the state hasn't ordered a cleanup
March 13, 2023
A veteran comes home, tenants get justice, and other highlights from the Duke Law clinics
March 13, 2023
Nowlin and Environmental Law & Policy Clinic present case for plastic bag surcharge to Durham City Council
February 13, 2023
Miller comments on the consequences of letting the farm bill expire, including a rise in dairy prices
February 3, 2023
Article by Lauer et al. explores the inequitable distribution of benefits and burdens of plastic at each stage of its lifecycle
January 12, 2023
Nowlin criticizes lack of environmental impact statement in SC development plan that would likely kill endangered birds
January 4, 2023
Valerie Marshall '24 writes for Farm Bill Law Enterprise blog on how shifting to perennial agriculture could help mitigate climate change
December 16, 2022
Valerie Marshall '24 writes for FBLE on a proposal to taper crop insurance subsidies to farms and the impact of caps
December 12, 2022
In report for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Miller writes that regulators actually know little about factory farms or the health and environmental risks they pose
November 28, 2022
Longest questions whether environmental racism is at play in state's failure to force Alcoa to clean up contaminated site
November 18, 2022
Nowlin and Miller of the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic join Ways & Means to discuss the search for more climate-friendly ways to raise animals
November 17, 2022
Lauer teams up with riverkeepers to document debris in urban waterways, finds large amount of plastic waste
November 11, 2022

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