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Patrick A. Parenteau

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Senior Counsel to the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic and Professor of Law

LLM, environmental law, George Washington University, 1975;
JD, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, 1972;
BS, business administration, Regis College, Denver, CO, 1969

Phone: (802) 831-1305
Email: pparenteau@vermontlaw.edu

Publications

Book and Chapters

  • "Wetlands and Climate Change" National Wetlands Newsletter, March 2009
  • "The First One Hundred Days: Ten Things President Obama Should Do to Confront the Climate Crisis," ELQ Currents, December 2008.
  • "Are We Resting on Our Laurels?" Vermont Environmental Report, Fall 2008.
  • "An Overview of Wildlife Law in the United States," in Wildlife Law: A Global Perspective, edited by Raj Panjwani, ABA 2008.
  • Overview of Federal Wildlife Law in Natural Resources Law (ABA 2008).
  • "Legal Authorities for Ecosystem-Based Management in U.S. Ocean and Coastal Areas," in Ocean and Coastal Law (ABA 2008).
  • "The Take Prohibition," in Endangered Species Act Deskbook, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER) of the American Bar Association (2008).
  • "Vermont Environmental Law," in State Environmental Laws: A Deskbook For Practitioners (Martindale-Hubbel 2002).
  • "The God Squad," in The Endangered Species Deskbook (ABA 2000).
  • With Don Baur, "Overview of Federal Wildlife Law, Natural Resources & Environment," a publication of the ABA Section of Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law (Fall, 1995).
  • "Federal Wildlife Law," ABA Nat. Resources L. Handbook (1994) .
  • Federal Wetlands Regulation (Government Publications, Inc. 1991).

Articles

  • "Wetlands and Climate Change," National Wetlands Newsletter, March 2009.
  • "The First One Hundred Days: Ten Things President Obama Should Do to Confront the Climate Crisis," ELQ Currents, December 2008.
  • "Are We Resting on Our Laurels?" Vermont Environment Report, Fall 2008.
  • "An Overview of Wildlife Law in the United States,"  Wildlife Law: A Global Perspective, edited by Raj Panjwani, ABA 2008.
  • Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: States Tackle Climate Change with Little Help from Washington, U. of Connecticut L. Rev. Vol. 40 (May 2008).
  • An Empirical Assessment of the Impact of Critical Habitat Litigation on the Administration of the Endangered Species Act, August 2005 (PDF file).
  • "Preemptive Surrender: How Corps Districts are Giving Away Clean Water Act Jurisdiction," National Wetlands Newsletter (2005).
  • "Whatever Industry Wants, Environmental Policy Under Bush II," Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum (2004).
  • "Citizen Suits Under the Endangered Species Act: Survival of the Fittest," Widner Law Review (2004).
  • "Court Should Nix Takings Argument," Boston Globe (2002).
  • Unreasonable Expectations: Why Palazzolo Has No Right to Turn a Silk Purse into a Sow's Ear, 30 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 101 (2002).
  • A Biodiversity Plan for Vermont? Vermont Environmental Reporter (2001).
  • Our Wetland Dominoes, National Law Journal (2001).
  • Rearranging The Deck Chairs: Endangered Species Act Reforms in an Era of Mass Extinction, 22 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. 227 (1998).
  • With D. Suagee, Fashioning a Comprehensive Environmental Review Code for Tribal Governments: Institutions and Process, 21 Am. Indian L. Rev. 297 (1997).
  • Who's Taking What? Property Rights, Endangered Species, and the Constitution, 6 Fordham Envtl. L.J. 619 (1996).
  • With Don Baur, Overview of Federal Wildlife Law, Nat. Resources & Env't (Spring, 1990; updated Fall, 1994).
  • Everything You Need to Know About Environmental Law You Learned in Kindergarten, 23 Envtl. L. 223 (1993).
  • Small Handles, Big Impacts: When Do Corps Permits Federalize Private Development?, 20 Envtl. L. 747 (1990).
  • With Craig Johnston, The Big Chill: The Impact of Fleet Factors on Lenders, Chemical Waste Litig. Rep., Aug., 1990, at 20.
  • NEPA at Twenty: Disappointment or Success?, Audubon, Mar. 1990, at 104.
  • NEPA at Twenty, 6 Envtl. F. 14 (1989).
  • Environmental Paper Trail Twenty Years Later, Oregonian, Nov. 12, 1989, § K (Forum), at 1.
  • With Nancy Tauman, The Effluent Limitations Controversy, 6 Envtl. L.Q. 1 (1977).
  • Regulation of Nuclear Power Plants: Constitutional Dilemma for the States, 6 Envtl. L. 675 (1976).
  • With R. Catz, Public Assessment of Biological Technologies: Can NEPA Answer the Challenge?, 64 Geo. L.J. 679 (1976).