The GW Law Environmental and Energy Law Blog
By Fernando Muñoz Dominguez
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For more than a century, plastics have facilitated considerable advancements in modern society in a wide range of fields including electronics, aerospace, construction, food packaging, and sports. These advances have come at a high price, however, as plastics have been detrimental to human health, the economy, and the environment.
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The Environmental & Energy Law program is delighted to welcome Caroline Cecot as a Visiting Associate Professor in our program for 2024-2025 academic year! We recently caught up with Professor Cecot to learn more about her background in environmental law and related fields and hear about her plans and goals in this new role.
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The Environmental and Energy Law program is delighted to welcome Dr. Kristoffer Svendsen as its new Assistant Dean for Energy Law. His expertise and dedication will undoubtedly enrich our academic community. We recently caught up with Dean Svendsen to learn more about his background in energy law and related fields and hear about his plans and goals in his new role as Assistant Dean for Energy Law.
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Randall Abate, Assistant Dean for Environmental Law Studies at GW Law, delivered a lecture series on international environmental law and climate governance at Central Asian University of Environmental and Climate Change Studies (“Green University”) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan from May 20-30, 2024. Established by a presidential decree in 2023, Green University is the first university in Central Asia to focus exclusively on environmental challenges. It seeks to train the next generation of environmental and climate change governance professionals in Central Asia.
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Public participation and environmental justice are fundamental to environmental law. The former has been a pillar since the enactment of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in 1970, which established a federal environmental review framework and enabled members of the public to meaningfully engage in the decision-making process on projects whose adverse environmental impacts may affect them. The latter is the just treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in agency decision-making, with a focus on communities that have historically been disproportionately burdened with adverse human health and environmental risks and hazards. Categorical exclusions (CEs) are actions that are exempted from complicated environmental review under the NEPA process because they are not meant to produce significant environmental impacts.
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