Environmental Law Section eNews

Would you like to get involved with the Environmental Law Section but cannot devote significant time?  Read more

Clifford T. Lee, a highly respected water law attorney and recipient of the 2021 Environmental Law Section Lifetime Achievement Award, died suddenly in late November 2022.  Read more

Happy New Year!  ELS is preparing excellent programs for 2023. Read more

It is so exciting that we will be back at the Tenaya, in person, for our annual ELS Yosemite conference, for the first time since 2019. Read more

The Environmental Law Section is a great source of community and collaboration for environmental lawyers in California. This year, I am particularly excited to focus on outreach to reach as many people as possible who practice or are interested (even if they don’t know it yet) in practicing environmental law. Read more

The Environmental Law Section has been a great source of community for so many of us within our profession, and we invite you to join us in the coming year. Read more

Congratulations to the Environmental Law Section’s six 2021 Diversity & Inclusion Fellows! For the past few months, we’ve been highlighting these remarkable law students and their summer fellowship posts. This month, we’re featuring two student Fellows: Karen Chen (UC Berkeley) recently completed her post with U.S. EPA Region IX. “My summer at the EPA Region 9 Office of Regional Counsel was great! I got to work on a bunch of really interesting projects covering a wide range of subject matter areas in… Read more

The application deadline for the Environmental Law Section’s enormously successful Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship program for Summer 2022 is rapidly approaching. Read more

The Environmental Law Section is pleased to announce that Clifford Lee will be the recipient of the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award Read more

The 30th Annual Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite® is taking place virtually next week! Join us Thursday through Sunday, October 14-17, for a range of educational, social, and inspirational events and activities. Read more