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RECOGNIZING BRENT MURCIA
 Brent Murcia graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2021. Before and during law school, Brent was actively engaged in public interest legal and policy work around environmental issues. His work experience in that area included nonprofit, government, private, and academic positions. He also published a student note on environmental review and climate change in the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, was a leader in the student Environmental and Energy Law Society, and received the law school’s 2021 Charles Nauen and Pati Jo Pofahl Environmental & Energy Law Student Award. As a student attorney in the University of Minnesota Environmental and Energy Law Clinic, Brent represented the Youth Climate Intervenors—a group of young people opposing the Line 3 pipeline on climate change grounds.
His nominator said: “Brent invested well over 450 hours during his time as a student attorney and many more hours before that reviewing thousands of pages of briefs, policy documents, meeting minutes, and complex data to understand and advocate [on behalf of the Youth Climate Intervenors] in the administrative and appeals processes.”
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