Katrina conference to discuss environmental impact

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Katrina conference to discuss environmental impact

Thurgood Marshall School of Law will host its second conference on Hurricane

Katrina Friday, March 31, 2006. The first conference, held in November 2005,

explored the legal and social implications of the activities, policies, and

decisions related to Hurricane Katrina. The second conference will discuss

the following topics: toxic torts and Katrina; an intersection of public

health and environmental protections, lessons from Katrina, environmental

justice and Katrina; and New Orleans: The Ultimate Brownfields Project.

A diverse panel of scholars and leaders from around the nation will present

views on multiple issues resulting from the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

Confirmed panelists include Jim Blackburn of Blackburn & ;

Hester, Bracewell & Giuliani; Kim Connelly from the Environmental Law Clinic

at the University of South Carolina School of Law; Bailus , Professor

of Environmental and Occupational Medicine from University College of

Medicine; Adam Babich from Tulane University School of Law; Pamela Berger

from the Environmental Department at the City of Houston; Daria E. Neal,

Staff Attorney for Environmental Justice Project at the Lawyers' Committee

for Civil Rights Under Law; Harden, Director of Advocates for

Environmental Human Rights; Targ, U.S. EPA Office of Environmental

Justice; Sarthou, Director of Gulf Restoration Network; Nannette V.

Jolivette of Chaffe McCall; Eady from the New York Lawyers for the

Public Interest; Harold , South Carolina State Representative;

Leonard Spearman, Director of the Center for Government Law at Thurgood

Marshall School of Law; ny L. Dupree, Mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi

and cia N. Fasoyiro, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

The conference will be held in the Moot Court Auditorium at the Thurgood

Marshall School of Law from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Approved for 6.25 hours

of MCLE credit for attorneys, the conference is free and open to the legal

community and to the public. Attendees may register on-line at

www.tsu.edu/academics/law/alumni/cle. For more information regarding the

symposium, contact L. Darnell Weeden, conference chair, at 713-313-4249.