General Sustainability Announcements

Boalt Hall School of Law and the

California Center for Environmental Law & Policy

are pleased to present:

The U.S. Supreme Court Confronts Global Warming: Deconstructing Massachusetts v. USEPA

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

12:45-2:00 p.m. PDT

Sibley Auditorium

(2^nd Floor, West Wing)

Bechtel Engineering Center

University of California , Berkeley

Join a panel of distinguished scholars and expert environmental lawyers for a panel discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court's April 2, 2007, decision in the groundbreaking climate change case, Massachusetts, et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

In Massachusetts, a divided Supreme Court held that California, 11 other states and the nation's major environmental organizations have legal standing to bring this case; that USEPA has the authority under the federal Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions associated with climate change; and that USEPA has failed to adequately justify its reasons for declining to do so.

This program will analyze the Court's decision in Massachusetts; explore its effect on other, important climate change litigation pending in California and throughout the nation; and examine the larger impact of the Massachusetts decision on the current legal, scientific, policy and political debate over global warming.

The Panel:

• Daniel A. Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law; and Faculty Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Boalt Hall School of Law
• Anne Joseph O'Connell, Acting Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law

• Ken Alex, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice
• Theodore Boutrous, Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
• Richard Frank, Executive Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy (Moderator)

You may participate in this important program in one of three ways:

1. You are invited to attend the program, live and in person, at Sibley Auditorium on the U.C. Berkeley campus;
2. The program will be Webcast simultaneously over the Internet. The appropriate link can be found on the CCELP's website: www.ccelp.berkeley.edu ;
3. The program will be videotaped and posted on the same CCELP website for future viewing for those unable to view the program live.

One hour of MCLE credit is available to those California attorneys who participate in this program, in person or via the Internet, on April 10th.

This program is offered free of charge, as a service to Boalt Hall students and faculty, the U.C. community, legal practitioners and policymakers.

For further information, please contact:

• Mary Elliott, Program Administrator, CCELP, at melliott@law.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-7235 -or-

• Richard Frank, Executive Director, CCELP, at rfrank@law.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-8305