Climate Change: Legal Considerations, Regulatory Responses and Economic Implications
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
1:00pm – 3:00pm Screening of Award Winning Documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth"
3:00pm – 6:00pm Seminar
Sponsor
Air Quality & Climage Change Committee
Climate change issues are reported on the front pages of many newspapers and magazines, and are the subject of countless TV and radio news reports. Science has largely reconciled that climate change is real and hugely significant for the present and the future well-being of planet Earth. The legal community will inevitably have to deal with fallout from the problem, as will government and the business community.
This program will provide an overview of what is currently happening in the courts on the climate change front, and how Congress is legislating to deal with climate change. Attendees will learn how Massachusetts and the region are addressing the regulation of C02 and the problems caused by mobile sources, as well as how investors and businesses are adjusting their practices in response to climate change.
Specific topics include:
- Massachusetts v. EPA
- The Association of International Automobile Manufacturers v. Sullivan
- the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
- the Massachusetts “7.29” regulations
- the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Panelists
James R. Milkey, Esq.
Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the Environmental Protection Division
The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley
Jason S. Grumet, Esq.
Executive Director
National Commission on Energy Policy, Washington, D.C.
Douglas Shallcross, Esq.
Senior Counsel, Office of General Counsel
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Mindy S. Lubber, Esq.
President
CERES
David Cash, Ph.D.
Director of Air Policy
Massachusetts Executive Office Environmental Affairs
Michael J. Bradley
M.J. Bradley & Associates, Inc.
Program Co-Chairs
Ruth H. Silman, Esq.
Nixon Peabody LLP
Frederick D. Augenstern, Esq.
Assistant Attorney General
The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley
Program Prices
$120 - BBA members
$155 - Non-Members
$85 - BBA Sponsoring Section Member
$65 - BBA Member Legal Services/Government Lawyer
$25 - Law Student
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