Regulating Climate: What Role for the Clean Air Act?
The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, the Duke Law School, and the Harvard Law School cordially invite you to attend a one day conference examining climate change policy and the Clean Air Act.
The Sarah P. Duke Gardens • Doris Duke Center
Duke University •
Durham, North Carolina
8:30 am – 4 pm, Thursday, March 26, 2009
videos of event are available here:
Panel I: Stationary Sources >
Panel II: CAIR, NAAQS >
Lunch Presentation >
Panel III: Title II >
Addressing climate change appears to be a high priority for the Obama administration. How best to do so, however, is very much the question of the moment. Congress has started to focus on climate legislation, but the shape and details of these efforts may not be known for months or years. In the meantime, the Clean Air Act remains the law of the land.
This conference will focus on what role the Clean Air Act should play in both short and medium-term strategies to reduce greenhouse gases. This topic carries particular relevance in light of EPA’s recent announcements that it will consider not only whether an endangerment finding for carbon dioxide is appropriate, but also whether to grant California’s waiver request to impose its own limits on vehicle CO2 emissions, opening the door for other states to adopt the same standards.
Please join us for a practical discussion with a select group of the nation's leading air and climate experts. Keynote speeches will be delivered by Mary Nichols, Chairman of the California Air Resources Board, and Lisa Heinzerling, Senior Policy Counsel on climate change for the U.S. EPA. Separate panels will focus on regulating stationary sources, developments with the Clean Air Interstate Rule and National Ambient Air Quality Standards, and regulating mobile sources.
Download a full agenda schedule here >
Confirmed Speakers and Panelists include:
Lisa Heinzerling, U.S. EPA
Vicki Arroyo, Georgetown Law Center State-Federal Climate Resource Center
Rob Brenner, U.S. EPA
Sarah Dunham, U.S. EPA
Mike Gerrard, Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School
Eric Ginsburg, U.S. EPA
Kate Kenealy, California Department of Justice
Kevin Leahy, Duke Energy
Ray Ludwiszewski, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Bill Pedersen, Perkins Coie LLP
Ellen Peter, California Air Resources Board
Tim Profeta, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
Jim Salzman, Duke University School of Law and the Nicholas School of the Environment
Chris Schroeder, Duke University School of Law and Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Patrice Simms, Natural Resources Defense Council
Jonathan Wiener, Duke University School of Law, Nicholas School of the Environment, and Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Peter Wyckoff, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
In preparation for presentations and discussion, we encourage attendees to review the following background paper written by Brigham Daniels, Assistant Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, entitled, "Regulating Climate: What Role for the Clean Air Act?" This short primer sets out a range of policy choices and legal options facing the EPA as it decides how best to use the Clean Air Act to address climate change.
If you are interested in attending, please contact Jessica Sheffield.
CLE credit available. For details please contact Sarah Wood.
