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2025 Villanova Environmental Law Journal Blank Rome LLP Symposium - New Developments in Environmental Litigation
Recent major court decisions at the federal and state levels will have important consequences for environmental litigation. In June 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a spate of major administrative law decisions, including one that overturned the longstanding Chevron doctrine. In July, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted environmental groups the right to intervene in litigation over the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and in that decision indicated support for the groups’ efforts to invoke the Commonwealth’s Environmental Rights Amendment. Environmental lawyers have been left scrambling to foresee how these and other recent cases will affect the field of environmental law moving forward. The 2025 Villanova Environmental Law Journal Blank Rome LLP Symposium will examine two major areas of recent development in environmental litigation: (1) environmental enforcement in the context of recent Supreme Court administrative law precedent and (2) potential uses of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Rights Amendment to advance environmental justice in the Commonwealth. Panels will bring together experts from the academy, government, private practice, and nonprofit organizations to discuss how recent cases in these areas will change environmental litigation.
2024 Villanova Environmental Law Journal Blank Rome LLP Symposium - Blame, Burden and Bravery: Gender Justice, Indigenous Justice and the Environment
Recent years have seen a surge of attention focused on environmental justice, recognizing that environmental burdens tend to fall disproportionately on certain populations. Often neglected in conversations about environmental justice, however, is the role of gender, and yet evidence suggests that gender is a significant factor in environmental issues. Studies indicate that women are more concerned about environmental issues and engage in more environmentally responsible practices than men. Women have played important roles in the environmental movement, and yet men have tended to occupy formal leadership positions in environmental agencies and organizations. Women have played a particularly strong role in indigenous environmental activism. The 2024 Villanova Environmental Law Journal Blank Rome LLP Symposium will focus on the association between gender and the environment and how a stronger understanding of that link can facilitate better environmental policies and practices in both the private and public sectors. Expert panelists from legal practice and the academy will offer their insights and ideas.
2023 Villanova Environmental Law Journal Blank Rome LLP Symposium - Environmental Justice & Waste
Modern developed economies generate tremendous amounts of waste, the burdens of which fall disproportionately on marginalized communities and populations. The 2023 Villanova Environmental Law Journal Blank Rome LLP Symposium will examine problems associated with different types of waste–trash, water pollution and medical waste–from an environmental justice perspective. Panels will bring together interdisciplinary experts and community leaders to discuss the problems that waste poses for vulnerable populations and to identify potential solutions.