IN THIS MODULE YOU WILL LEARN ABOUT:
- What is Climate Law? Climate Legislation? Climate Change Law? Environmental Law? Policy?
- What is the goal of climate laws? and how they may or may not be enforced?
- What is the difference between domestic laws and International laws?
- How climate change may impact the future regulations?
INSTRUCTOR FOR THIS MODULE:
JARED WILLIAM ZEMANTAUSKI, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, Email: JZEMANTAUSKI@MIAMI.EDU, Phone: (305) 284-2180
Mr. Zemantauski has over 17 years of experience working with coastal and environmental projects throughout the United States and in the Caribbean. He is also highly experienced with domestic and international environmental regulations. He has coordinated international development projects relative to national and international laws such as the Bahamian Wild Bird Protection Act and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). His international work also included drafting an Environmental Impact Assessment for an international development project on Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas.
In his tenure as a consultant, he has conducted Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments for commercial properties and issued feasibility studies for residential properties regarding potential environmental responsibilities and liabilities. Mr. Zemantauski has prepared development projects for administrative hearings relative to constructing marinas, Federal Emergency Management Agency flood zone regulations, and developing beach front properties seaward of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Coastal Construction Control Line. He has also assisted government agencies and municipalities in developing and revising government regulations, such as the United States Department of Energy Order 435.1 pertaining to radioactive waste management and sea turtle protection lighting ordinances for Florida coastal cities. He has also facilitated interagency discussions with the United States Department of Energy, United States Environmental Protection Agency, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky regarding remediation of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (which is a Superfund site).
Mr. Zemantauski has worked in the public sector as the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Submerged Lands Inspector for the Southeast District, inspecting marinas for compliance with sovereign submerged lands leases. While with the State he also reviewed environmental impacts associated with vessel groundings and development projects, and prepared penalty and mitigation calculations relative to those impacts.
In addition to being a licensed attorney and owning a law practice, Mr. Zemantauski is also a faculty member of the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science where he instructs courses in Ocean Law, Coastal Law, and Climate Law.
His unique understanding of regulations allows him to facilitate the issuance of environmental permits, including marina construction, beach re-nourishment projects, and construction and operation of factory facilities. Mr. Zemantauski is experienced in determining the ownership of submerged lands; consulting clients on endangered species, riparian rights, and public access to beaches. Furthermore, he has assisted the federal government in rewriting federal regulations and developing mitigation/remediation plans for many of his clients. His interactions with the Federal Government also include negotiating and closing a “land swap” with the US Army Corps of Engineers
LECTURE
READING ASSIGNMENT
CRITICAL THINKING ASSIGNMENT
PROBLEM STATEMENT: You have learned how climate change does/will affect cities and some physical ways to make a city more resilient to climate change impacts. How do you implement those physical changes in a city like Miami legally, effectively, and in a way to garner citizen support?