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Shrinking the federal workforce will not promote permitting efficiency

Feb 07, 2025

Efficiency is a concept on everyone’s mind. Prior to the inauguration, permit reform proposals looked for ways to improve permitting efficiency, often with Republicans blaming environmental laws for delaying infrastructure and energy projects.

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La Sal Sustainability Collaboration: Conflict competence in action

Feb 01, 2025

My last project with the Wallace Stegner Center’s EDR program was facilitating the La Sal Sustainability Collaboration (LSSC), a diverse group working to co-create an approach to management of the Southern La Sal’s and Canyons, where federal, state and private rangelands are operated as an integrated, sustainable system.

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Research Professor John Ruple authors opinion piece about Congressional Review Act in The Hill

Jan 22, 2025

Research Professor John Ruple, a natural resources law expert, wrote an opinion piece for The Hill about the Congressional Review Act, a tool Congress can use to overturn certain federal agency actions.

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2024 EDR blog year in review

Jan 01, 2025

To kick off the new year, we’ve been reflecting on our achievements from 2024 and what we would like to accomplish in 2025. One of the things we are proud of from 2024 is posting another year’s worth of EDR blogs on key topics related to conflict competence and collaboration.

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Emotions are data when dealing with conflict

Dec 01, 2024

I find it very telling that when I ask people at the start of my classes and professional trainings what they think of when they think about conflict, the most common responses are emotions (particularly unpleasant emotions) such as frustration, anxiety, anger, or fear.

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We need to talk about dysregulation

Nov 07, 2024

Let me start with a provocative question: How are you feeling about the current state of U.S. politics? I encourage you to take a moment to really sit with this question and tune into how you are feeling.

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Implementing the Public Lands Rule consistent with BLM’s statutory authority under FLPMA

Oct 21, 2024

On Friday, the Bureau of Land Management opened a 30-day nomination period to fill a new federal advisory committee. The committee, appropriately titled Public Lands Rule Advisory Committee, will help inform implementation of the BLM’s newly minted public lands rule.

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Dream job: Alum Steve Bloch reflects on 25 years at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

Oct 11, 2024

Steve Bloch (’97) started his career thrilled at the chance to work outside most of the time. He studied botany and political science in college and worked several seasons as a field technician for the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, doing biological surveys in Oregon, Washington and Louisiana.

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To overcome divisiveness, we need to focus on interests (and not positions)

Oct 01, 2024

In the hope that it helps us all navigate this challenging election season, I want to build on ideas I’ve explored in prior blogs to directly address the problem with focusing on positions and highlight some approaches for focusing on what really matters—our interests.

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Achieving flow: Alumna Emily Lewis builds a satisfying career in water law

Sep 25, 2024

Though Emily Lewis has now been practicing water law for 15 years, her love of the outdoors originally spawned a different career.

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All that flows downhill: How mining in Canada threatens downstream communities in Alaska, Washington, Idaho and Montana

Sep 19, 2024

As the world transitions to electric vehicles and renewable energy, the demand for critical minerals like lithium, nickel, cobalt, and graphite is growing rapidly.

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Research Professor John Ruple discusses CEQ appointment and Law and Policy program

Sep 11, 2024

Research Professor John Ruple, who also serves as director of the Wallace Stegner Center’s Law and Policy (LPP) program, recently returned from a two-year appointment as senior counsel in the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). He will discuss his time on the CEQ at a Stegner Center Green Bag on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 12:15-1:30 p.m.

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The problem with compromise

Sep 01, 2024

In my classes and trainings, I often ask people what skills are necessary for effective conflict resolution. One of the most common responses I get is “compromise.” When people say this, I ask them a follow-up question: How does compromise make you feel? I encourage you to take a moment to sit with that question yourself.

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Stegner Center Student Scholarship Recipients and Writing Awards

Sep 01, 2024

The Stegner Center oversees a rich array of scholarships, fellowships, and awards for College of Law students, ranging from cash awards for outstanding papers to […]

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Wallace Stegner Center Fall 2024 Green Bag Series

Sep 01, 2024

The Wallace Stegner Center’s popular noon-hour green bag series includes presentations on a variety of topics this fall semester, including Cancer Alley, the Great Salt […]

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Joshua Macey Joins Stegner Center as 20th Annual Young Scholar

Sep 01, 2024

Professor Joshua Macey, an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School, will join the Wallace Stegner as the 20th Annual Young Scholar on November 7, 2024. Professor Macy’s Lecture, […]

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Stegner Center Faculty Updates Fall 2024

Sep 01, 2024

Antony Anghie Panels: “The Authority of Scholarship” (panelist), American Society of International Law Annual Meeting (April 2024). Other activities: Named Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal […]

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Research Professor John Ruple featured in media about Utah lawsuit to take control of federal lands

Aug 26, 2024

Research Professor John Ruple, an expert on public land and resource management and director of the Wallace Stegner Center’s Law and Policy program, is quoted in several media outlets about the lawsuit Utah has filed targeting unappropriated public land.

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Leveraging the environmental impact analysis to reduce ambiguity and delay in mine permitting

Aug 16, 2024

The Law and Policy Program was honored to join one of the CLDP’s missions as a subject matter expert on strategies for aligning Fiji’s mineral laws and policies with their ambitious climate and environmental laws.

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Extra dialogue required: Get to know EDR Director Danya Rumore

Aug 13, 2024

Research Professor Danya Rumore has been on a mission to figure out how to help people work together since her days as an undergraduate.

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To flourish, we need to teach people how to make conflict productive

Aug 01, 2024

We live in a highly interconnected world in which people from all walks of life interact with each other on a daily basis. This unavoidable reality of modern life creates many amazing opportunities, including for greater creativity and innovation. However, it can be difficult to navigate if we don’t have skills for productively working through our differences. 

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