Publications
Scholarly Articles
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR FOOD SYSTEM WORKERS (in progress, anticipated submission Spring 2022).
Other Writings
Citizens of Washington State Work to Fill Gaps in Regulation of Surface and Groundwater Pollution from CAFOs, 33-SPR NAT. RESOURCES & ENV’T 26 (2019).
ABA Environment, Energy, and Resources Law: The Year in Review 2015, 2015 ABA/SEER YIR 95- 96 (2016).
Presentations
“Environmental Justice and the Clean Water Act,” University of Denver Sturm College of Law, April 20, 2020.
“The Future of Environmental Justice Legislation, Litigation, and Transformation,” panelist, 17th Annual Wiley A. Branton Symposium, Howard University Law Journal, October 8, 2020.
“Food Justice and the Green New Deal,” panelist, University of Detroit Mercy Law Review Symposium, Detroit, MI, March 2020.
Writing workshop for Appellate Environmental Advocacy students, University of Denver Sturm
“Recent Lawsuits that Relate to Establishing a Right to a Stable Climate System,” University of Denver International Law Society lunch panel, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Denver, CO, November 2018.
“Vetting and Building Successful Cases,” panelist, Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Eugene, OR, March 2018.
“Citizen Participation in Enforcement of Environmental Laws,” guest speaker, University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, NM, February 2018.
“Paying the Farmer to Not Pollute: Nonpoint Sources of Agricultural Pollution in Washington Waters,” panelist, Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Eugene, OR, March 2016.
Amicus Curiae Service and Representative Litigation
County of Maui v. Hawai’i Wildlife Fund, et al., No. 18-260 (U.S., July 19, 2019) (solicited to serve as amicus curiae on brief of law professors in support of respondents arguing for plain language interpretation of the scope of the Clean Water Act)
Hill v. Warsewa, No. 19-1025 (10th Cir., Apr. 25, 2019) (counsel for and amicus curiae on brief of law professors in support of plaintiff arguing that he had standing to litigate question of access to portion of Arkansas River for purposes of fishing)
Kupale O’okala and Center for Food Safety v. Big Island Dairy, LLC, No. 17-00305-SOM-KSC (D. Hawaii 2017) (represented plaintiffs in Clean Water Act citizen enforcement suit resulting in consent decree)
Friends of Maha’ulepu, Inc. v. Hawai’i Dairy Farms, et al., No. 15-00205-LEK-BMK (D. Hawaii 2015) (represented plaintiffs in Clean Water Act citizen enforcement suit resulting in consent decree)
Sierra Club, et al. v. BNSF Railway Co., No. 13-00967-JCC (W.D. Wash. 2013) (represented plaintiffs in Clean Water Act citizen enforcement suit resulting in consent decree reached during trial)
Cmty. Ass’n for Restoration of the Env’t, Inc., v. Cow Palace, LLC, 80 F.Supp.3d 1180 (E.D. Wash. Jan. 14, 2015) (finding on summary judgment that commercial dairy’s management of manure may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to human health and the environment under RCRA; consent decree followed court’s opinion)