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Linda K. Breggin

Fellow since 2021
Linda Breggin is a Senior Attorney with the Environmental Law Institute where she has managed a wide range of environmental law and policy projects for over 20 years. She is also a Senior Strategic Advisor to the Nashville Food Waste Initiative. Among her projects is the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review, a collaboration with Vanderbilt University Law School, in which students work with her and her co-instructor as well as an expert advisory committee to select some of the most innovative proposals in the legal academic literature each year and showcase them for policymakers and practitioners at an annual conference and in the August issue of the Environmental Law Reporter. She is the author of the “Around the States” column in The Environmental Forum, ELI’s award-winning policy journal. Ms. Breggin previously served as an Associate Director in the White House Office on Environmental Policy, Counsel to a congressional subcommittee, a Special Assistant in the Office of Enforcement, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Counsel to a large, New York-based law firm. She is a graduate of Tulane University and the University of Chicago Law School.

Degrees

  • JD University of Chicago 1988
  • BA Tulane 1984

Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • Maryland

Court Admissions

  • Maryland
  • District of Columbia

Professional Societies and Organizations

American Bar Association

Other Environmental Career Experience

  • Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, TN, 2007-present
  • Lecturer in Law, 2019-present
  • Adjunct Professor of Law, 2007-2019

Representative Publications (not including ACOEL Blogs)

  • • Columnist, Around the States, The Environmental Forum (ELI, 2011–present).
  • • Co-author, More Than a Hill O’ Beans: A Typology For Incorporating Plant-based Protein Measures into Municipal Climate Action Plans, The Georgetown Environmental Law Review, 38 GELR 61 (2024).
  • • Co-Author, Analysis of Environmental Law Scholarship 2022–2023, Environmental Law Reporter (2024).
  • • Co-Author, Model Municipal Zoning Ordinance on Community Composting: With and Without Commentaries (NRDC/ELI 2024).

Illustrative Projects

Model governance tools for addressing food waste reduction, including model state laws, ordinances, and executive orders.

Citations of Major Published Cases

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