By Maria Savasta-Kennedy Each year, the NCBA Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Section Council hosts an essay contest for high school students across the state centered on the theme of sustainability. The winner of the contest receives a $500 cash prize and the chance to be published on NCBarBlog. This year’s contest focused on the […]
By Kym Meyer I am excited to welcome you all to a new year of the Environment, Energy & Natural Resources Law Section! My name is Kym Meyer, and I am honored to serve as your chair this year, along with a wonderful leadership team. For those who don’t know me, I am the Litigation […]
By Grace Hearn Please join the North Carolina Bar Association’s Environment, Energy, & Natural Resources Law Section Council for its quarterly meeting and featured speaker event, “Bridging Partnerships for a Resilient Western North Carolina,” this Thursday, November 14, 2024, beginning at 10:30 a.m. During the Council meeting, members from the different committees will report on […]
By Maria Savasta-Kennedy Each year, the NCBA Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Section Council hosts an essay contest for high school students across the state centered on the theme of sustainability. This year’s contest focused on the role geoengineering could play in reducing global warming and offsetting some of the impacts of climate change. Specifically, […]
By Maria Savasta-Kennedy Each year the NCBA Environment, Energy & Natural Resources Section Council hosts an essay contest for high school students across the state. The essays center on the theme of sustainability, and this year’s contest focused on drinking water safety in North Carolina.
By Scott M. Werley If you’ve been following the emergence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) over the past six years, one may think that it would be impossible to limit your exposure to PFAS as we’ve learned about its ubiquitous nature in the environment, its inability to break down and tendency to bioaccumulate, as […]
By Cordon Smart Greetings Section Members, Anne Harvey, Mona O’Bryant and I serve as the co-chairs of the Environment, Energy, & Natural Resources Law Section Pro Bono Committee. We wanted to provide information about some upcoming pro-bono opportunities. Updates to EENR Environmental Law Fact Sheets In 2009, the EENR Section prepared a series of Environmental […]
By Rick Kolb, L.G. Environmental law has been a practice in North Carolina since only the 1980s, and the early practitioners in North Carolina are now approaching the end of their careers if not already retired. In the past for the section newsletter, and later the section blog, I have profiled “senior” environmental attorneys Amos […]
By Amy P. Wang, Outgoing Section Chair I am honored to have served as the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources (EENR) Section Chair for 2021-2022. As we are set to begin anew next month, it’s important that we reflect on the past year and the challenges we faced as a Section. An uptick in COVID-19 […]
By Andrew Wagner Turn off your webcams and join us at the farm for our section’s Annual Meeting and Social on May 4. Then, pack your bags and head down to Charleston on June 16-18 for the 2022 Tri-State Environmental Law Conference! Our Section will hold its Annual Meeting and Social on May 4 at […]