NEDC’s student project groups focus on specific environmental issues occurring in this region. Student projects provide an opportunity for law students to get hands-on practical experience in environmental law, beginning as early as the first semester of their 1L year.

To find out how to get involved in a project, contact nedc@lclark.edu and attend an NEDC meeting!

Student Resources
2024-2025 Student Staff
  • Law Clerk: Grayson Murray
  • Student Directors: Maggie Baker & Juliette Liu
  • Project Coordinators:
    • Air & Climate: Tory Dille, Derek Lund, and Hayden Wyatt
    • Clean Water: Will Currell & Sara Brown
    • Environmental Justice: Moriah Daniels and Antonia Langowski
    • Food & Agriculture: Samuel Truesdale, Cody Krato, and James Cole
    • Public Lands & Wildlife: Victoria Reiners, Ian Connolly, and Shoshana Grossman
First Year Perspectives

NEDC offers unique hands-on learning experiences for Lewis & Clark Law students interested in environmental law. Click here to read about student volunteers’ experiences working with NEDC.

Student Articles

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Volunteer Spotlight: Cameron Quackenbush

Growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah, I was exposed to some of the worst air quality in the nation. The thermal inversions and absurd PM2.5 counts in the winter were a seasonal spectacle. Additional summer ozone and wildfire smoke, combined with the emerging issue of dust storms from the basin of the former Great Salt Lake Basin left few days with clear skies or healthy air. The effects were tangible, but little work was actually being done to mitigate these events. Watching the political debates over potential solutions, disputes between stakeholders, and institutional preferences to stay out of it, air quality reform became a driving force in compelling me towards law school. My volunteer experience with NEDC has allowed me to get into the weeds of actual air quality permit review and compliance certification for a local mill, and individualized impacts of point source polluters on local communities through the writing of fact sheets. In the midst of doctrinal classes like torts, civil procedure, and constitutional law during my first year, volunteering with NEDC reminded me of why I elected to attend Lewis & Clark Law School, and why I worked so hard for my J.D.

Growing up in the midst of intersectional environmental issues, my background lent itself well to my second and third-year role as a coordinator for the Environmental Justice Working Group. In this position, I was able to coordinate students to work on issues ranging from substantive reviews of the Washington Climate Commitment Act, to community comments on the cleanup efforts for the Portland Harbor Superfund Site, and even public transportation. NEDC gave me the tools and the network to succeed throughout law school.