Events

Presenters: Katie Dotter-Pyle, Co-Owner and Farmer, Cow Comfort Inn Dairy and Creamery Lindsay Reames, Director of Sustainability and External Relations for Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association Nicole Cook, Environmental and Agricultural Faculty Legal Specialist, Agriculture Law Education Initiative This panel will focus on the impact of COVID-19 on Maryland’s dairy industry and how dairy farmers managed the risks to their farms during the pandemic including what lessons they learned about navigating supply chain disruptions, loss, and changing markets, worker…

Presenters: Samantha Campbell, President, Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Margaret Todd, Research Assistant, Agriculture Law Education Initiative Holly Porter, Executive Director, Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc An explanation of the motivation behind the ambient air project, updates on the data collection process, potential next steps of the project   Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alei-annual-agricultural-and-environmental-law-conference-tickets-110677677914  

Presenters: Charles “Chip” MacLeod, Clean Chesapeake Coalition Jonathan May, Assistant Attorney General, Maryland Department of the Environment Denise Keehner, Assistant Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment This panel will focus on the Conowingo Dam settlement and specifically touch upon the litigation, settlement, opposition to the settlement, and the status of the relicensing of the Dam.   Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alei-annual-agricultural-and-environmental-law-conference-tickets-110677677914

Presenters: Jon Mueller, Vice-President of Litigation for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation Robert Whitescarver, Farmer and former NRCS representative This panel will focus on the lawsuit the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and others, including Whitescarver, have filed against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its alleged failure to require Pennsylvania and New York to develop implementation plans that will achieve the 2025 Bay restoration goals.   Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alei-annual-agricultural-and-environmental-law-conference-tickets-110677677914

Presenters: Deidre Duncan, Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth Don Parish, Senior Director of Regulatory Relations, American Farm Bureau Federation This panel will highlight changes from the 2015 Waters of the US Rule to the changes made recently under the Trump administration.   Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alei-annual-agricultural-and-environmental-law-conference-tickets-110677677914

Presenters: Kelly Nuckolls, Policy Specialist, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Paul Goeringer, Senior Faculty Specialist and Extension Legal Specialist, ALEI, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland, College Park The panelists will highlight this year’s developing legal issues in agricultural, environmental, and food law from courtroom decisions, law, and policy and will let attendees know what issues to watch in 2021.   Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alei-annual-agricultural-and-environmental-law-conference-tickets-110677677914