Environmental Law Explored: A Podcast SEERies

Environmental Law Explored: A Podcast SEERies


Latest Episodes

SEER Essentials: New to the In-House Role: The Biggest Challenges and Greatest Rewards
August 09, 2022

Keith Tashima, Environmental Safety & Health Counsel at Lockheed Martin Corporation, is interviewed by Peter Keays, Shareholder at Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Shiller, about his recent transition

Author Series: Synching Science and Policy to Address Climate Change in Tribal Communities
July 27, 2022

In this episode, Heather Tanana and John Ruple (S.J. Quinney College of Law University of Utah) discuss their recent NR&E article. Climate change is a global environmental problem, and within the Un

50 Years of EPA: Looking Back with Barry Breen
July 05, 2022

Barry Breen, Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator of the EPAs Office of Land and Emergency Management, discusses his career at the EPA with Emily Mott, senior associate at Baker Botts LLP and pas

SEER Essentials: Clean Air Act Basics — The Montreal Protocol and Title VI, a Success Story
June 17, 2022

In 1990, Congress amended the Clean Air Act with Title VI, with provisions for protecting the ozone layer. In this program David Doniger and host Matt Oakes discuss the history and successful implemen

SEER Essentials: Comparing In-House Role to Private Practice: Biggest Surprises when Making the Switch
May 24, 2022

Jessica Sharrow Thompson, Senior Counsel, EHS & Sustainability at PPG, is interviewed by Evynn Overton, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., about the biggest surprises, challenges, and opportunities when makin

Policy and Regulation: Why NRC Regulations Must be Updated to Address Advanced Nuclear Reactors
May 03, 2022

Peter D. Wolf, President of Nuclear Energy Solutions, Inc., interviews Jeffrey S. Merrifield, a former Commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, regarding the proposed Part 53 regulation

Policy and Regulation: Meaningful Co-Management: The Evolution From Consultancy to Co-Operation
March 10, 2022

This podcast discusses an emerging strategy that can be used to protect cultural resources and reserved rights. The role that tribes are playing in cooperatively managing federal lands and resources i

SEER Essentials: Clean Air Act Basics — NAAQS, State Implementation Plans, and the Cross State Air Pollution Rule
June 18, 2021

Norman Rave, who has likely defended more EPA Clean Air regulations than any other attorney in the history of the United States Department of Justice, joins moderator Matt Oakes to discuss the interac

SEER Essentials: Marine Debris — Laws and Legislation to Address a Global Pollution Crisis
June 02, 2021

In this episode on the global pollution crisis of marine debris, Joan Bondareff and Martha McCoy discuss the scope, sources, and impacts of the marine debris problem and measures to address it. The ep

SEER Essentials: Clean Air Act Basics - History of the Clean Air Act
April 13, 2021

In this episode Dr. Devra Davis and moderator Matt Oakes discuss historic events that led to the development of the first federal Clean Air Act. Dr. Devra Davis joins moderator Matt Oakes to discuss t