Browner served as EPA administrator for eight years under President Bill Clinton. During that time, the EPA adopted the most stringent air pollution standards in the nation's history, including a fine particle clean air standard, and established the first refinery regulations. In addition, Browner spearheaded the reauthorization of the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Food Quality Protection Act.
"At the EPA, Carol Browner was known for working with environmentalists and industry leaders to establish science-based public health protections while providing businesses flexibility in how to meet those standards," said Melissa Scanlan, VLS associate dean and director of the Environmental Law Center. "We are honored to welcome her to Vermont Law School and look forward to her keynote address and a weekend of lively discourse during the Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship."
From 2009 to 2011, Browner served as assistant to President Obama and director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, where she oversaw the coordination of environmental, energy, climate, transport, and related policy across federal government. Today, she is senior counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group and a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
The annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship at Vermont Law School offers environmental law scholars the opportunity to present their works-in-progress, to get feedback from their colleagues, and to meet and interact with those who teach and research in areas related to environmental and natural resources law. The colloquium is not open to the public.
For more information about environmental programs at Vermont Law School, including degrees and clinical training, visit the Environmental Law Center online at vermontlaw.edu/ELC, email Anne Mansfield Linehan at alinehan@vermontlaw.edu or call 802-831-1287.