Professor questions proposed pipeline in Mt. Hood National Forest

A proposed 47-mile natural gas pipeline through Mount Hood National Forest has raised questions about the Forest Service’s role in upholding environmental standards governing protected areas. According to Forest Service estimates, the Palomar pipeline, slated for construction in 2011, would require clearing more than 700 acres of national forest land, including 100 acres of old-growth forest.

Law professor Dan Rohlf, director of the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center (PEAC), challenges the Forest Service’s role in the $800 million project. Administrative changes put into effect by the Bush Administration have eased the approval process for pipeline projects, he said.

“When FERC shows up at the door and says we want to put the pipeline here, the Forest Service…says, ‘OK, how do we have to amend our plans to get this done.’ They don’t take as hard a look as they used to,” Rohlf said.

The Oregonian: Forest Service plans to clear legal path for pipeline in Mount Hood forest

15 January 2009

• environment
• environmental law
• faculty
• In the News
• Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center

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Associate Professor of Law Dan Rohlf advocates for an environmentally conscious I-5 bridge

Dan Rohlf, associate professor of law and the director of the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, stresses that if a new interstate bridge is built to connect Oregon and Washington, it should be the least environmentally harmful.

The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.) New I-5 bridge? You decide

2 May 2008

• environment
• faculty
• In the News
• Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center

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Clinical Professor Allison LaPlante presents on air quality and climate change

Allison LaPlante, clinical professor of the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center:

On January 11, LaPlante gave a presentation at a Creative Learning Exchange conference on air quality and climate change, in which she shared a panel with Tom Wood of Stoel Rives and Tom Lindley of Perkins Coie.

10 April 2008

• climate change
• environment
• faculty
• Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center
• public presentations

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Clinical Professor Aubrey Baldwin gives lecture on the Oregon coast

Aubrey Baldwin, clinical professor of Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center:

In October, Baldwin gave a lecture titled “Protecting Pacific Vistas: Oregon’s Regional Haze Program” at Westwind, on the Oregon coast.

1 November 2007

• environment
• faculty
• Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center

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