Category Archives: Clinic

Clinic Releases Proposed Liability Framework for Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide

Today, the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic released a working paper entitled “Proposed Liability Framework for Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide,” and a model statute, the CCS Liability Act of 2010.  The paper proposes a detailed liability framework to … Continue reading

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Summary Report of Expert Workshop Addressing CCS Liability, Oversight, and Trust Fund Issues

The Clinic released the summary report from an expert workshop that it hosted in Washington, DC, on June 21, 2010.  At that workshop, the Clinic brought over 35 leading experts from the U.S. and Canada to address CCS liability, oversight, … Continue reading

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Workshop on the Ethics of Reporting Personal Environmental Exposures

On September 21, 2010, the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic co-hosted a day-long workshop on the ethical and legal challenges of communicating personal results to participants in biomonitoring and environmental exposure studies.  These studies raise a number of ethical … Continue reading

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Expert Workshop Addressing CCS Liability, Oversight, and Trust Fund Issues

On June 21, 2010, an expert workshop on CCS liability, oversight, and trust fund issues was carried out as part of an ongoing collaboration among Harvard Law School’s Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research … Continue reading

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ELPC Files Amicus Brief in U.S. Supreme Court Mountaintop Removal Mining Case

The Emmett Environmental Law and Policy (ELP) Clinic, under the direction of Assistant Clinical Professor Wendy Jacobs and Clinical Instructor Shaun Goho ’01, has filed a certiorari-stage amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition … Continue reading

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