Implementing Climate Change Polilcy: Looking Forward to the Hard Part
Feb. 5, 2010
Premise for the conference:
The United States is poised to adopt comprehensive climate change legislation. It will likely be one of the longest and most complex federal statutes passed in decades, and will affect almost every corner of the economy. Until then, EPA and perhaps other agencies may adopt numerous regulations.
Implementing the new regulatory scheme will be a massive and difficult undertaking. Billions of dollars will hinge on each of numerous implementation decisions. This one- and one-half day conference brought together leading government officials, academics, NGOs and private practitioners to explore these issues:
- The dozens of rulemakings required of EPA, DOE, and other agencies
- Creating the machinery for markets and offsets
- Managing the transition for key sectors (fossil and renewable energy, agriculture, forestry)
- Linkages to the international climate and trade systems
- State and local roles
- Affecting individual and corporate behavior
- Equity and environmental justice issues
Presentations by each speaker:
- Michael Gerrard, mp3 Recording
- Jonathan Weriner, mp3 Recording
- Michael Vandenburgh, mp3 Recording
- Don Elliot and Gina McCarthy, mp3 Recording
- Patricia Salkin and John Dernbach, mp3 Recording
- Sheila Foster and Chad Stone, mp3 Recording
- Saturday phone conference part 1 mp3 Recording
- Saturday phone conference part 2 mp3 Recording
- Revised agenda for Saturday
- Christopher Carr, PowerPoint
- Kyle Danish, PowerPoint
- John Dernbach, PowerPoint
- Don Elliot, 1992 CAA Amendments Implementation Strategy, The New Clean Air,
- An Environmental Milestone EPA.highlighted.pdf
- Dirk Forrister, PowerPoint
- Sheila Foster, PowerPoint
- Michael Gerrard, PowerPoint
- Edward Mazria, PowerPoint
- Roger Martella, PowerPoint
- Gina McCarthy, PowerPoint
- Patricia Salkin, PowerPoint, Audio PowerPoint
- Chad Stone, PowerPoint
- Michael Vandenbergh, PowerPoint
- Michael Wara, PowerPoint
- Jonathan Wiener, PowerPoint
Conference co-chairs:
- Prof. Jonathan Z. Cannon, University of Virginia Law School
- Prof. Michael B. Gerrard, Columbia Law School
- Prof. Michael P. Vandenbergh, Vanderbilt Law School
Click here for the Environmental Law Institute’s webpage for the event.