Please join us for the next installment of the 2014-2015 ELPP Lecture Series. William Brighton, '78, will speak about civil enforcement of environmental law.

This event is free and open to the public.

William D. Brighton is an Assistant Chief in the Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment & Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice. Before joining the Department of Justice in 1986, he clerked for Judge Myron H. Bright, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and worked at a Washington, D.C. law firm, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Mr. Brighton currently supervises civil environmental enforcement cases in the six-state area covered by EPA’s Region 5 office in Chicago. He has also served for many years as the Environment Division’s senior advisor on issues relating to natural resource damages. Mr. Brighton was lead counsel on the first federal lawsuit for natural resource damages under CERCLA (In re: Acushnet River & New Bedford Harbor) and on the natural resource damage claims arising from the EXXON VALDEZ oil spill. More recently, he managed the “Bunker Hill Litigation” (U.S. v. ASARCO), which concerns cleanup costs and natural resource damages resulting from 100 years of mining and metal processing activities in the Coeur d’Alene River Basin of Idaho.