Recent Publications by CLA Board Members

Chesapeake Legal Alliance

April 30, 2020

Shaping the Future of the EPA

By Ridgway Hall

Posted by the American College of Environmental Lawyers on January 29, 2020.

Mr. Hall is the Vice-President of the CLA Board of Directors.

"What should EPA and environmental protection look like in the future? A report issued by American University’s Center for Environmental Policy in December, entitled Moving Forward: Future Directions for EPA and Environmental Protection, provides 6 principal recommendations." Keep Reading...

Climate change, like the coronavirus, requires hard choices and leadership.

By Rebecca R. Rubin and Sam Bleicher

Published in The Washington Post on April 24, 2020.

Mr. Bleicher is a member of the CLA Board of Advisors.

"We find ourselves in unprecedented times. The novel coronavirus pandemic has upended daily life here in Virginia, across the country and the world. Pandemics pose complex threats that affect all of us and demonstrate just how interconnected we are, along with the actions we choose to take or ignore. The climate crisis, too, is a complex, global problem, one that affects us all, and one that will take widespread, coordinated action to fully address. It will require citizens to make behavioral changes and elected leaders at all levels of government to make hard choices — similar to what is required to address the coronavirus here in Virginia, and elsewhere." Keep Reading...