Environmental Law Section

California Lawyers Association’s (CLA) Environment Law Section will host its third Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Conference on Friday, June 6, 2025. The collaborative event will be held at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California, with three remote locations livestreaming the impactful day in Sacramento, San Francisco, and San Diego. Conference organizers think the opportunity for dialogue is so important that participants may register on-site in order to learn and engage about growing inequality, climate change, and environmental racism. Participants will earn up to 4.25 hours of MCLE. Read more

This webinar will discuss the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) process broken down into four sections: (1) the agency’s processing of a project application and administrative determination/proceeding; (2) the filing of the Petition Read more

On March 31, 2025, Professor Harrison “Hap” Case Dunning passed away at the age of 86. Many Environmental Law Section members learned from and were inspired by Professor Dunning who was a professor of law at UC Davis. Read more

“What we do matters, especially in an extraordinarily difficult time.” That was one line from UCLA Law professor Ann Carlson who gave the plenary remarks at our April 9 symposium “Charging Ahead” exploring ways to cut vehicle pollution during the next four years. Read more

The Environmental Law Section is happy to announce the recipients of the 2025 Diversity & Inclusion Summer Fellowship! Every year, the Section grants a number of fellowships to bright and motivated law students to help finance their summer job practicing environmental, energy, land use, and/or natural resources law at a participating government agency or public interest organization. The Section also matches the Fellows with mentors who practice in the field, and provides webinars, career panels, get-togethers and more, so the Fellows can meet… Read more

We are a month away from our “We Go Together” Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference, which will be held on Friday, June 6 at Loyola Law School, with remote viewing locations in Sacramento, San Diego, and San Francisco, as well as a virtual option. Read more

The Environmental Law Section (ELS) of the California Lawyers Association (CLA) proudly presents its 3rd Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference. Join community leaders, attorneys, policymakers, and students to discuss the escalating challenges of climate change, growing inequality, environmental racism, and policies of erasure in a shifting legal landscape. The Diversity Conference will be at Loyola Law School and focuses Read more

This year the Environmental Law Section is launching our new Trailblazer Award to recognize environmental leaders whose innovative and creative legal work has improved the lives of Californians and the California environment. Read more

This webinar will describe recent legislative and regulatory developments at the federal and California levels including key court opinions and a forecast of Trump 2.0 Administration’s impact on environmental quality, sustainability, & climate policies. Read more

The Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite® is nationally recognized as the largest and most prestigious gathering in California of leaders in environmental, land use, and natural resources law. Read more