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Clark Hall Tomorrow

Attorneys Discuss Environment

Three attorneys prominent in the field
of environmental law will discuss "Law
and the Environment" tomorrow at 3:30
p.m. in the East Hall of the Law School.

The panel, part of a continuing series
of Virginia Improved Environment Week
discussions, will focus attention on the
legal aspects of ecological problems. Professor
A.E. Dick Howard will chair the panel, which
will include Malcolm F. Baldwin, Senior Legal
Associate of the Conservation, Foundation,
Washington, D.C., and William Kennedy,
chairman of the Committee on Science and the
Law of the New York Bar Association.

Student Panelist

Also joining the panel, to discuss particular
environmental concerns in Virginia, will be
William H. King Jr. of the Richmond firm of
McGuire, Woods & Battle, and Denis J. Brion of
the third-year class of the Law School, a
professional engineer with experience in the
field of environmental problems. Mr. Howard
commented that the panel would present
different viewpoints on the legal aspects of
environmental control from the perspectives of
the nation and the state.

National Priorities

Mr. Kennedy will begin the discussion of
national priorities and goals with a talk on the
respective roles of local, state and national
government action in relation to action in the
private sector. His field of expertise is power
plant location and design, and he was involved
in the Storm King Mountain generating plant
controversy in New York.

Mr. Baldwin will concentrate on citizens'
litigation for environmental quality, while Mr.
King, a 1967 graduate of the Law School, will
focus on the legislative process in environmental
law. As a lobbyist in the area of
environmental legislation, Mr. King represented
business and industrial interests before the
1970 session of the Virginia legislature.

Proceeding the panel, Dr. Orris C. Herfindahl
of Resources for the Future, Inc., will speak on
"The Use of Resources" at 2:30 p.m. in Wilson
Hall. Virginia Improved Environment Week will
conclude with an address by Dr. Gordon J.F.
MacDonald of the President's Council on
Environmental Quality, to be given at 2:30
p.m. tomorrow in Old Cabell Hall Auditorium.