Environmental Law Institute

Research and policy division:provided research, training, and technical assistance in Environmental Law and policy to all sectors in the u.s. and numerous foreign countries. Research programs in 2022 covered the breadth of the field of Environmental Law and policy, from educating judges about the science of climate change, to promoting good governance to prevent corruption in small-scale mining, to operating the local government Environmental assistance network and the international network for Environmental compliance and enforcement. Other initiatives assessed state protections of nonfederal waters, identified best practices for coastal management programs, provided model ordinances and other tools for reducing food waste, looked at Environmental justice in the renewable energy sector, and researched and analyzed the global state of Environmental rule of Law, among other things. Our ongoing programs also continued to provide guidance, education, and recognition to Environmental professionals nationwide such as through the Environmental Law and policy annual review; training for states, territories, and tribes on the total maximum daily load and other clean water act programs; our indoor air quality program; our annual national wetlands awards program and ceremony; and others. In addition, among its internationally focused initiatives, eli analyzed customary water tenure in sub-saharan africa; supported the women in water diplomacy network; and continues to lead in the field of Environmental peacebuilding, which integrates natural resource management into conflict prevention, mitigation, resolution, and recovery to build resilience in communities affected by conflict. For a fuller description of our programs, please refer to our annual report, which can be found at www.eli.org.

Publications division:provided timely, accurate, and practical information to Environmental professionals through two nationally recognized publications, the Environmental Law reporter and the Environmental forum. The Environmental Law reporter remains the most cited publication of its type in the nation and draws premier authors on current legal events. And eli's award-winning the Environmental forum continues to provide award-winning coverage of the Environmental profession and Environmental policy. In addition, eli press advanced the field by publishing two books, Environmental justice: legal theory and practice, 5th edition and pacific salmon Law and the environment: treaties, endangered species, dam removal, climate change, and beyond.for a fuller description of our programs, please refer to our annual report, which can be found at www.eli.org.

Associates & education division: led 80 events, including conferences, webinars, breaking news webinars, policy forums, networking receptions, topical conference calls, eastern and western boot camps on Environmental Law, summer school seminars, annual supreme court preview and review, public seminars and more, for 23,912 Environmental professionals (virtually and in person). Topics of discussion ranged, including agriculture, carbon capture, utilization, and storage, careers in Environmental Law, the clean air act, the clean water act, climate change, climate disclosures, compliance and enforcement, decarbonization, the endangered species act, energy Law, Environmental criminal enforcement, Environmental justice, esg, federal Environmental updates, green infrastructure, geoengineering, hazardous waste, international Environmental Law, land use Law, the national Environmental policy act, pfas, products regulation, supreme court cases, sustainable development, tsca, youth climate litigation, and more. For a fuller description of our programs, please refer to our annual report which can be found at www.eli.org.

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