1. Key Environmental Issues in U.S. EPA Region I

Sponsored by the Environmental Law Section*

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Tuesday, May 8, 2007
8:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.

The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02116


This program offers a unique opportunity to engage in dialogue with policy makers and representatives of the legal profession involved in environmental issues in New England. This regional seminar has been planned by local state bar representatives, EPA regional lawyers, and state government representatives. Special emphasis is placed on program initiatives and priorities both in Region 1 and in the six states as presented by EPA Regional Administrator Robert Varney, Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian Bowles and the Commissioners of the six New England state environmental agencies. The program includes a keynote address from EPA Acting General Counsel Roger Martella. Pertinent issues of the day – emerging issues under the Clean Air Act and in water regulation, Superfund, brownfields, energy facility siting, enforcement, and ethics – are covered in the seven general and breakout sessions.

*This program is co-sponsored by the US EPA, Region I Boston Bar Association; Connecticut Bar Association, Environmental Law Section; Maine State Bar Association, Natural Resources and Environmental Law Section; New Hampshire Bar Association, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section; Rhode Island Bar Association; Vermont Bar Association, Environmental Law Section.

2. MAPC’s Metro Future Plan

Sponsored by the Environmental Law Section

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
12:30 p.m.
Boston Bar Association

Marc Draisen, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) will discuss the Council’s Metro Future Project.  Specifically, he will discuss:

• what the plan is;
• what it will mean for environmental protection and land use;
• how MAPC proposes to implement the plan.

3. EPA's Response to the Danvers Explosions

Sponsored by the Hazardous & Solid Waste Committee

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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
12:30 p.m.
Boston Bar Association

Mike Nalipinski, On-Scene Coordinator with EPA's Office of Emergency Planning and Response and Gretchen Muench and Amerlia Katzen, senior enforcement attorneys, will discuss the EPA response and investigation of the explosions that destroyed a building in Danvers the day before Thanksgiving.

4. BBA CLE: Climate Change - Legal Considerations, Regulatory Responses and Economic Implications

Sponsored by the Air Quality & Climate Change Committee

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
1:00pm – 3:00pm Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth"
3:00pm – 6:00pm Seminar
Boston Bar Association

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.

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