VJEL Symposium on Water Quality

​​Please join the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law for our Volume 17 Symposium. The day long conference will explore Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) under the Clean Water Act. Experts from around the country will discuss TMDLs, their effects and possible alternatives. Please see the day’s agenda below.

7:45 am – 8:00 am | Registration

8:00 am – 8:20 am | Early Bird Session: TMDLs for Dummies

Professor Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law School

8:20 am – 8:30 am | Welcoming Remarks

VJEL Editor-in-Chief Joseph R. Simpson, Dean Mark Latham

8:30 am – 9:20 am | Morning Keynot: After the TMDLs

Dave Owen, Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law

9:30 am – 10:50 am | American Farm Bureau v. EPA: Protecting the Chesapeake

Moderated by Professor John Echeverria, Vermont Law School

Jon A. Mueller, Vice President for Litigation, Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Richard E. Schwartz, Partner, Crowell & Moring

Nina Bell, Executive Director, Northwest Environmental Advocates

Mary Jane Angelo, Professor of Law, Alumni Research School, and Director, Environmental and Land Use Program University of Florida Levin College of Law

11:00 am – 12:20 pm | Cutting Edge Litigation I: Exploring the Gulf of Mexico and Toxics in Washington State

Moderated by Professor Jack Tuholski, Vermont Law School

Richard A. Smith, Managing Partner, Smith & Lowney, PLLC

Richard E. Schwartz, Partner, Crowell & Moring, LLP

Matt Rota, Senior Policy Director, Gulf Restoration Network

12:30 pm – 1:15 pm | Lunch

Yates Common Room

1:15 pm – 2:00 pm | Afternoon Keynote: Searching for the Missing, a CWA Story

Oliver Houck, Professor of Law, Tulane University Law School

2:15 pm – 3:50 pm | The Lake Champlain TMDL

Moderated by Professor Laurie Ristino, Vermont Law School

Deborah Markowitz, Secretary, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources

Chuck Ross, Secretary, Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets

Stephen Perkins, Aquatic Ecosystems Program Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region I – New England

Chris Kilian, Vice President and Director, Conservation Law Foundation Vermont

David Mears, Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic at VLS and former Commissioner of Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation

4:00 pm – 5:20 pm | Cutting Edge Litigation II: Agricultural Tile Drains and the Effectiveness of TMDLs

Moderated by Professor Laura Murphy, Vermont Law School

Charlie Tebbutt, Law Offices of Charles M. Tebbutt, P.C.

Debora K. Kristensen, Partner, Givens Pursley, LLP

Jerry Anderson, Richard M. and Anita Calkins Distinguished Professor of Law, Drake University Law School

Mark James, Global Energy Fellow in the Institute for Energy and the Environment, LLM in Energy Law Candidate 2016

5:20 pm – 5:30 pm | Closing Remarks

For more information or to register for the event, visit Eventbrite. To guarantee your free lunch, please register by Monday, October 19 at 11:59 pm.