If you're a member of one or more ABA-SEER substantive committees that focus on subject matter relevant to your practice, SRECC is a great additional committee membership that cuts across programs and brings many regional developments into focus.
The SRECC Committee has Regional Vice Chairs, listed to the right on this webpage, for all of the EPA Regions, and other Vice Chairs with responsibilities common to most ABA-SEER committees (membership, newsletter, programs, technology, public service, etc.). Our Regional Vice Chairs provide updates on issues and programs of interest in our newsletters and via periodic listserv communication with all of the committee's members. They also communicate with state bar leaders and environmental agency representatives in their respective regions, for newsletter updates and to collaborate and cosponsor programs of interest to environmental practitioners.
The Committee sponsors conferences in each EPA region. The conferences are co-sponsored by the EPA region and the environmental and natural resources sections of the state bar associations (and often municipal bar associations) within each region. A cross-section of speakers includes federal, state, and local regulators, as well as private and public interests lawyers, consultants, and corporate officials. The frequency of these programs varies with the region. In those regions where distance make an in-person program difficult, the Committee attempts to provide alternative programs to achieve the same connection between practitioners in the regulated community and in the regulating agencies.
At the Section Fall Meeting, the Committee moderates an "idea exchange" among Committee and Section members regarding common and innovative ideas used by state bar environmental sections across the country.
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Dear ABA-SEER State and Regional Environmental Cooperation Committee (SRECC) Members:
Please consider participating in a public service project open to all SRECC members. The idea: to find something unique and useful for your loved ones, clients, and employees, and to give the gift of light to those in need at the same time. The gift: the BoGo Solar-Powered Flashlight ("BoGo" stands for "buy one, give one"). With each BoGo light purchased in the developed world, the purchaser chooses an organization to which a second identical light will be donated for distribution in the developing world. The BoGo Light charges with a day of sunlight, provides six to eight hours of use per charge and works for thousands of hours before requiring new rechargeable batteries. In addition, new this year, the BoGo Light now comes in two sizes--the regular and the mini. Both versions of the ever-ready light are useful in the United States, and potentially life-changing in Africa. Most importantly, introducing simple clean technology in rural Africa empowers the recipients to choose sustainable energy options in the future.
Purchase one to keep and one to give by visiting http://www.bogolight.com. If you click on "choose where to give," you can select where to give the second flashlight. One of the worthy options is Elephant Energy, a non-profit working to introduce renewable energy technologies in rural Africa. Elephant Energy has teamed up with SunNight Solar to distribute BoGo Solar-Powered Flashlights to villagers committed to promote rural development and nature conservation in Namibia (for details, visit http://www.elephantenergy.org). (If you donate a light to Elephant Energy, and also send an e-mail to elephantenergy@gmail.com with your name and e-mail address, they will send you a picture of the recipient in Africa holding the donated light with your name written on it.) Please contribute to this important cause and help SRECC make a positive impact on the world this holiday season.
Please e-mail any questions to brayback@pierceatwood.com.
Regards,
Brian Rayback
SRECC Public Service Vice Chair
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The State and Regional Environmental Cooperation Committee is a forum for the exchange of ideas, rather than focusing on a substantive area of environmental law. This gives the committee a unique advantage in being able to communicate across the spectrum of the Section's constituencies not only about a variety of substantive issues but also how to manage the solution of conflicts. Through Regional Councils the Committee helps to coordinate activities of the ABA with that of EPA regions and State and Local Bar Associations.
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Basic Practice Series: EPCRA (Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act)
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View the full roster of State and Regional Environmental Cooperation Committee leadership.
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The Committee has compiled an exhaustive listing of environment, energy, and natural resource websites that is searchable by state and EPA region.
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Committee newsletters provide current information on topics of interest to practitioners and news of committee activities. View the latest committee newsletter.
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