ENR News and Events

Professor Michael Fakhri—the immediate past UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2020-26)—presented "How to Stop Hunger and Starvation" as part of Southern Methodist University's Interdisciplinary Institute on Feeding Humanity in Dallas, Texas. 
Associate Professor Greg Dotson's article, "Reconciliation, Rescissions, and Review: Climate Change and the 119th Congress," was recently published in the Environmental Law Reporter. 
Virtually join the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center for the 20th annual Rennard Strickland Lecture, featuring Bryan Newland (Ojibwe) with his talk, "The Vanishing Indian Property Rights: How Federal Courts are Stripping Indians of the Rights to Their Own Lands." Register today.
Associate Professor Greg Dotson—faculty leader of the ENR Center's Energy Law and Policy Project and a member of the Oregon Data Center Advisory Committee—spoke about data centers for an episode of the "OPB Politics Now" podcast. 
Clayton R. Hess Professor of Law Adell Amos recently published "Testing Prior Appropriation as Drought and Climate Change Push States Toward Water Code Reform: Lessons From and For Oregon," in Montana's Public Land and Resources Law Review. 
At 12:00 p.m. PST on August 5, virtually join Professor of Practice Howard Arnett and Oregon Tribes Scholar-in-Residence Chuck Sams III for a webinar on "The Federal-Tribal Relationship in Practice: Trust Responsibilities and Current Indian Law Developments," and earn 1.0 Oregon CLE credit. 
Clayton R. Hess Professor of Law Adell Amos served as a panelist on "The Clean Water Act" as part of the Environmental Law Institute's Summer School seminar series. A recording of the panel is available now. 
Associate Professor Greg Dotson served as a panelist at Sustainable Northwest's Making Energy Work Webinar. During the "Data Centers Deep Dive," Professor Dotson shared about the recent work of the Oregon Data Center Advisory Council, of which he is an appointed member.
Clayton R. Hess Professor of Law Adell Amos will present on "The Clean Water Act" as a panelist for the second session of the Environmental Law Institute's Summer School seminar series at 9:00 a.m. PST on June 24, 2026. 
In an opinion piece for The Guardian, Senior Fellow Chuck Sams explains the important role of the "Roadless Rule" in protecting wildlands and wildlife, criticizing recent efforts to rescind the legislation.