Co-sponsored by:
The New York City Bar Association’s Environmental Law Committee
The New York City Bar Association’s Minorities in the Profession Committee
WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
New York City Bar Association
42 West 44th Street, New York, NY
Please click here to register online.
Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a new roadmap for integrating environmental justice into its policies, programs and daily work. In January 2012, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation proposed regulations implementing the environmental justice provisions of New York's recently-enacted power plant siting law. EPA officials and leading environmental justice advocates and scholars will discuss these and other recent developments, and the incorporation of environmental justice principles into the environmental review and permitting process.
MODERATOR
Jeffrey Gracer, Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C., Chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association
SPEAKERS
Anhthu Hoang, Environmental Protection Specialist, Environmental Justice Program , U.S. EPA Region II
Gavin Kearney, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
Peggy Shepard, Executive Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Gregg Macey, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Arturo Garcia-Costas, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, Senior Program Manager/Citizen Participation Specialist