Leading practitioners, regulators, and professors from New York City and Albany reviewed the past year's most significant developments in New York State environmental law. Featured topics included New York State's decision on fracking in NYS, status of the Brownfield Cleanup Program, new developments under the State Environmental Quality Review Act, recent activities in the Department of Environmental Conservation and state legislature, the new Community Risk and Resiliency Act, recent major court decisions in environmental law, clean energy initiatives, and more.
Speakers:
Michael Mahoney, Pfizer Inc; Chair, Environmental Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association (moderator)
Ton Berkman, Deputy Counsel, NYS DEC
Scott Fein, Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna LLP
Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice and Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School
Kate Sinding Senior Attorney and Deputy Director New York Program, NRDC
Philip Weinberg, Professor Emeritus, St. John's University School of Law
Co-sponsored by: New York City Bar Association Committee on Environmental Law and Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School