All Is Not Quiet In WNY – The Latest Environmental Legal Issues
The environmental practice in Western New York continues to evolve, with its industrialized legacy driving the need for practitioners to stay on top of regional-based considerations. This program highlights a handful of these issues, while also focusing on some of the innovative ways that lawyers, consultants, and stakeholders in the region have managed them.
FREE Law School Students
$75 Members of the Environmental & Energy Law Section
- February 25, 2021
- 8:30 AM
- 12:30 PM
- 3.0
- 3.0
- Virtual Participation
- EELS Section Chair:
- Nick Ward-Willis, Principal Member, Keane & Beane P.C.
- Program Chair:
- Mike Hecker, Partner, Hodgson Russ LLP
- Introduction:
- Jeffrey Stravino, Partner, Hodgson Russ LLP
- Speaker:
- Sean M. Ryan, New York State Senator, 60th Senate District
- Speakers:
- Robert Knoer, The Knoer Group, PLLC
- Nadine Marrero, Director of Planning, City of Buffalo
- Speakers:
- John Kolaga, Partner, Rupp Baase Pfalzgraf Cunningham LLC
- Patrick Martin, P.E., BCEE, Associate and Senior Consultant, Golder Associates
- Speakers:
- Joseph Endres, Partner, Hodgson Russ LLP
- Michael Lesakowski, Principal and Senior Project Manager, Benchmark Environmental Engineering & Science PLLC and Turnkey Environmental Restoration LLC
- Program Chair
- Mike Hecker, Partner, Hodgson Russ LLP
8:35 am – 8:45 am – Welcome
8:45 am – 9:15 am – Keynote Address
9:15 am – 10:15 am - Buffalo’s Award Winning Green Code: Development and Application
10: 15 am – 10:25 am – Break
10:25 am – 11:25 am – The New Normal on TENORM: What You Need to Know.
11:25 am – 12:25 pm – NYS Brownfield Tax Credit Program: Audit Defense and Hot Topics
12:25 pm – 12:30 pm – Closing and Farewell
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- 0KB71
- Environmental & Energy Law Section

