Roberto Busó, (B.S., Environmental Conservation, University of New Hampshire), is a CISDL Associate Fellow. He has conducted legal academic research at the Faculty of Law of the Universitá degli Studi di Trento, where he focused on comparing the legislative regimes which allow the world’s two largest emission trading schemes, the U.S. Acid Rain Program and the EU Emission Trading System. He has also worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Region 1) on programs within the Office of Environmental Stewardship, working on enforcement cases by preparing settlement offers, complaints and an array of legal memoranda. Before working in this regulatory environment, Roberto worked at a biological consulting firm which was preparing an impact assessment and monitoring study on the effect hydroelectric power plants are having on the Hudson River. Roberto has also worked on lead paint legislation with the State of New Hampshire through an Environmental Health Law course at VLS, and worked with the Tuftonboro, NH, Conservation Commission and the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension in preparing the Tuftonboro Wildlife Inventory. His legal research interests include Russian environmental law, international environmental law, U.S. environmental law (focusing on CAA, CWA, TSCA, FIFRA, RCRA and CERCLA), International Law of Toxics and Hazardous Waste, International Comparative Environmental Law, U.S. Administrative Law, Globalization and Labor Law, Globalization and Constitutional Law, and Land Use Law. Roberto is a Juris Doctor and Masters Studies in Environmental Law candidate at Vermont Law School where he is focusing on environmental law, international law and business/corporate law. He is also a volunteer guardian ad litem in Vermont’s Orange and Windsor Counties. He is proficient in written and spoken English and Spanish, as well as Italian at a B1 level.