Pace Law School Prof. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., co-director of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, traveled to North Carolina last week to tour Badin Lake with Yadkin Riverkeeper Dean Naujoks. The Yadkin Riverkeeper, which...
At its annual meeting last weekend, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth honored the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, its partner in a lawsuit against mountaintop removal coal companies operating in Eastern Kentucky, which had been providing...
The environmental group Riverkeeper, represented by the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, has filed a lawsuit demanding that a tour boat company based in the City of Poughkeepsie’s Waryas Park stop operating from a dock...
The Huffington Post profiles Prof. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., co-director of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, in connection with the release of a new film, The Last Mountain, that features him. According to the...
Peter Harrison, a student intern with the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, discussed coal mining violations with The Courier-Journal in the article. “Activists get say in coal suit; call pollution penalties too light.”
Professors Karl Coplan and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., co-directors of the Environmental Litigation Clinic, were quoted in The Daily Independent (Kentucky) article, “Coal company’s corrective plan to use same sample collectors.” In a plan...
Landmark settlement announced with ExxonMobil Corp. for oil spill in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
WHITE PLAINS, NY, November 18, 2010 — The Hudson Riverkeeper, represented by Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic legal interns, announced a landmark settlement this week of federal litigation against ExxonMobil Corp. for the oil contamination of Greenpoint, Brooklyn and nearby Newtown Creek.
The settlement, announced Wednesday by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation and Riverkeeper, requires ExxonMobil to conduct a comprehensive cleanup of its oil and related contamination at its Greenpoint facility and in the surrounding community.
Kentucky Coal Companies Cited for Falsified Monitoring Data in Violation of Federal Law White Plains, N.Y., October 7, 2010 – Student interns at the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, under the supervision of law professors...
