Clean Air Act Advantages and Statistics

A graduate of Lewis & Clark Law School, Zach Pilchen is an experienced environmental lawyer. He served in the past as a legal writing teaching assistant at the Lewis & Clark Law School, as a legal intern at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as an attorney-advisor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Zach Pilchen is highly experienced with the Clean Air Act.

The Clean Air Act is a federal environmental law that aims to reduce and control all air emissions that have the potential to harm the environment or public health. The law was created in order to protect people and the environment from pollutants emitted by both mobile and stationary sources. A key part of the act are the National Ambient Air Quality Standards, or NAAQS, which the United States Environmental Protection Agency regularly reviews and revises.

The act has managed so far to prevent 370,000 premature deaths, and millions of cases of respiratory problems. Other health conditions that the act has prevented are heart attacks. In addition to that, it also prevented millions of lost workdays and school days.

A Look at GW Law’s Sustainable Energy Initiative

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A member of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, Zach Pilchen is an attorney who has gained experience in environmental law through roles with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Oregon, Perkins Coie, LLP, and the Northwest Environmental Defense Center. A Shaw Graduate Fellow in Administrative Law, Zach Pilchen earned a master of laws degree in energy and environmental law from George Washington University Law School (GW Law) with highest honors.

While GW Law’s Environmental and Energy Law Program has been in existence for nearly 50 years, it has placed an increased emphasis on energy law over the past decade. In addition to offering new classes on this topic, the law school established the Sustainable Energy Initiative as a thought-leadership platform to advance the creation of legal structures governing complex energy systems. Its primary goal is to ensure access to reliable and affordable clean energy resources via research and educational forums on energy policy issues.

In the past, the Sustainable Energy Initiative has hosted “Collaborative Conversations” series and partnered with groups such as the Energy Bar Association (EBA) and the ABA’s Section on Energy & the Environment to host forums and conferences. Its first major event was in 2013, when it co-sponsored the EBA’s Mid-Year Meeting.

GW Law School Sees Two Professors Named among Most Downloaded Authors

 

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A graduate of Lewis & Clark Law School with a juris doctor, Zach Pilchen earned a spot on the Dean’s List during every semester of his studies and was inducted into to the Cornelius Honor Society. Zach Pilchen also holds a master of laws in energy and environmental law from George Washington University Law School (highest honors), which recently announced that two of its professors have earned distinction among the 10 most downloaded law professors in the country.

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has announced that Daniel J. Solove, John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law, and Orin S. Kerr, Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor of Law, are among the most downloaded law professors according to records from the SSRN repository of scholarly articles.

Professor Solove placed second on the list of 3,000 authors and achieved 263,111 downloads, largely due to his work titled “‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy,” which accounted for 164,000 downloads. He authored the essay in 2007 for a San Diego Law Review symposium.

Professor Kerr placed 10th on the list with 108,160 downloads, 11,000 of which came from his work titled “Internet Surveillance Law after the USA Patriot Act: The Big Brother that Isn’t.”

About the ABA’s Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources

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A graduate of George Washington University Law School, Zach Pilchen earned a master of laws degree in energy and environmental law. A member of the American Bar Association, Zach Pilchen belongs to the Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER), and writes for their annual publication “Year In Review.”

A section of the American Bar Association, the Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, was created to help attorneys who specialize in those areas serve the public interest by providing them with the most current analysis and information. Open to law students, young lawyers, and established American Bar Association attorneys, SEER membership offers several benefits, including continuing legal education courses and access to an online directory.

To help members connect with each other and further the legal needs of different environmental, energy, and resource law topics, SEER also has 34 different committees, from agricultural management to smart growth and green buildings. The agricultural management committee has been in operation for more than 20 years and deals with issues that directly effect several different agricultural areas, including livestock and biotechnology. The smart growth and green buildings committee is dedicated to the point at which environmental issues and urban planning intersect, especially the legal challenges that may arise during land development.