Environmental law students and practitioners should focus their efforts on attacking the often hidden architecture of the polluting state, according to a report released yesterday by the Yale Environmental Law Association. The report details insights from the Yale Environmental Law Association’s inaugural conference in its New Directions in Environmental Law, which took place on April 2nd, 2011. The theme of last year’s conference - A Climate of Possibility – represented the goals and spirit of the day. It drew over 200 practitioners, policymakers, students, and academics together to critically examine law’s confrontation with climactic environmental and social challenges. The conference galvanized participants to see environmental law in new ways—reflecting a range of social justice and scientific concerns and replete with unexplored possibilities. It inaugurated an annual series of conversations intended to…