Editor's Summary: On March 24, 2005, the Center for American Progress, the Environmental Law Institute, and the American Constitution Society cosponsored a panel discussion entitled "How to Protect Environmental Protections?" The program focused on the role of federalism in implementing U.S. environmental law. The following is a transcript provided by D.C. Transcription & Media Repurposing courtesy of the Center for American Progress. We have edited the transcript only to provide clarifying information and to make certain verbal statements are more clear when reduced to text.