America 250: The Constitutional Dimensions of Environmental Law

Join the Sacramento Lawyer Chapter for a lunch event!

Panel discussion on how the federal legacy environmental statutes (including the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act) fit within the American constitutional framework. Environmental law and the Constitution intersect at many points, particularly with respect to federalism. For example, federal agencies have often tried to construe the Clean Water Act in ways that implicate the states’ traditional regulation of land use. At the other end of the spectrum, climate litigation under state law arguably violates principles of horizontal federalism, under which states are not permitted to impose their laws on other states. Such litigation also rests uneasily with the Clean Air Act and the federal government’s responsibility for foreign policy, implicating vertical federalism. Please join us for a discussion of these timely topics.

Speakers:

• Eric Grant (moderator), U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of California
• Professor Paul E. Salamanca, Wendell H. Ford Professor of Law, University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law
• Charles T. Yates, Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation 

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As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.