Tuesday, March 29, 2022

LaLSA Academic Conference: Building an Equitable US Environmental Future

12:00–1:30 p.m.
Seminar Room 201, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South NY ,10012 (view map)
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Zoom access linkhttps://nyu.zoom.us/j/99367125636

Please join us for the first panel of LaLSA's Academic Conference "Achieving Envionrental Justice: Domestic and Global Latinx Perspectives." This panel is "Building an Equitable U.S. Environmental Future." 

This high-level and multidisciplinary panel will teach participants about the key developments and issues arising in each of the major areas of environmental justice and how these changes will affect the environmental future of the United States’ legal, political and legislative landscape.

NYU Law students & faculty can watch the panel live streamed during at Vanderbilt Hall – 201.

Panelists include:

1) Jeffrey M. Pietro, General Counsel of the U.S. EPA

2) Lisa F. Garcia, U.S. EPA Region 2 Administrator 

3) Gerald Torres, Professor of Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment; Professor of Law at the Law School

4) Ignacia S. Moreno, Former Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, 2009-2013; CEO & Principal, The iMoreno Group, PLC

5) Mark Magaña, Founding President & CEO of Green Latinos

6) Richard Revesz (Moderator), AnBryce Professor of Law; Directors of Institute for Policy Integrity

CLE Credit Available: No
Event Contact(s): John Desan , john.desan@nyu.edu