Environmental & Energy Law Section Virtual Fall Meeting: Day One-Spotlight on Environmental Law (Webinar)
The Section’s Fall Program has been reimagined and is “Must See TV” being held over two consecutive Fridays! Guaranteed to have more acronyms than any other CLE program this year. ASTM, PFAS, OZ, CLCPA, CMA, AREGCBA and more.
Are you tired of this pandemic? Come learn how land use and environmental laws can be used to avert the next one. Social issues – we have that covered with a 1-hour CLE Diversity and Inclusion Credit presentation entitled: The Role Implicit or Explicit Bias has Played in Shaping New York’s Environmental Policy – Combatting Racial Injustice. Overall, the Program provides a timely look at new legislation, regulations and guidelines, as well as current issues affecting energy and environmental practice throughout the State with a “brief” look back at the history of the Section to celebrate our 40th anniversary and concluding with a keynote address by Joe Martens, Director, New York Offshore Wind Alliance.
This program is being held as two separate non-consecutive days, if you wish to attend both days you must register separately both days. The first day focuses on Environmental Law, the second day focuses Energy Law.
$100 | Registration rate for Environmental & Energy Law Section members
Registrants receive complimentary 40th anniversary face mask via mail. **
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- October 23, 2020
- 8:30 AM
- 1:15 PM
- 4.0
- 4.0
- Virtual Participation
Agenda | Environmental & Energy Law Section Fall Meeting
Day One | Friday, October 23, 2020
4.0 MCLE Credits
8:30 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions
Section Chair
Nick Ward-Willis, Esq.
Keane & Beane PC, White Plains, NY
Program Co-Chairs
Donna Mussio, Esq.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, New York, NY
Jan S. Kublick, Esq.
McMahon Kublick, PC, Syracuse, NY
8:45 – 9:35 a.m.
Emerging Trends and Issues in Environmental Due Diligence
This panel will discuss how due diligence practices may change following the anticipated revisions to the ASTM E1527-13 Phase I standard to be released in 2021, as well as challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The panel will review key anticipated revisions to ASTM E1527, how to evaluate Phase I reports that were completed during the COVID-19 shutdown, how to assess COVID-related operational changes, and lessons learned from consultant experience and litigation.
Lawrence Schnapf, Esq.
Schnapf LLC, New York, NY
Michael Burke, PG, CHMM
Langan
Principle/Vice President
New York, NY
(1.0 Area of Professional Practice)
9:35 – 10:25 a.m.
PFAS Remediation – DEC’s New Screening Levels and The Latest Trends in Remediation Technologies
This panel will have NYSDEC provide an update on the new Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) for Emerging Contaminants PFOA, PFOS and 1,4-dioxane and describe new PFAS soil and groundwater screening levels applicable to all remediation sites. Panelists will describe the state-of-the art remediation technologies being developed to address this contamination as well as the current soil and groundwater sampling and disposal challenges. Panelists will also provide the legal perspective on the impact emerging contaminants are causing in contaminated real estate transactions.
Moderator
Linda Shaw, Esq.
Knauf Shaw, LLP, Rochester, NY
George Heitzman, P.E.
Assistant Division Director
NYS Division of Environmental Remediation
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
Rick Shoyer, LSRP
Senior Project Consultant
Advanced GeoScience Corp./ Montrose
Amy L. Reichhart, Esq.
Nixon Peabody LLP, Rochester, NY
(1.0 Area of Professional Practice)
10:25 – 10:40 a.m.
Break
Presentation of the 2020 Law Student Essay Awards
Miriam E. Villani, Esq.
Chair, Professor William R. Ginsberg Memorial Essay Contest
1st place: Alisha Faherty, Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
2nd place: Joel Beacher, Columbia Law School
3rd place: Isabella Kendrick, Columbia Law School
3rd place: Natalie Roy, Columbia Law School
10:40 – 11:30 a.m.
Developing Brownfield Sites in Opportunity Zones
This panel will discuss recent changes in the Opportunity Zone regulations that facilitate deploying OZ investments for Brownfields redevelopment. The program will provide insights on structuring from the tax, construction, engineering and accounting perspectives.
Christy Vouri-Misso, Esq.
Bousquet Holstein PLLC, Syracuse, NY
Mimi Raygorodetsky
Senior Associate and Vice President
Langan, New York, NY
(1.0 Area of Professional Practice)
11:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
The Role of New York Environmental and Land Use Law in Averting the Next Pandemic
This panel will discuss the scientific basis of zoonosis, the role of NY environmental and land use in averting pandemics, and potential New York State Department of Environmental Conservation initiatives relating to zoonosis and averting spillover infectious disease.
Moderator:
Nicholas A. Robinson
Kerlin Professor of Environmental law Emeritus
Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
John Kirkpatrick, AICP, Esq.
Kirkpatrick Law LLC, White Plains, NY
Katharine Petronis
Deputy Commissioner of Natural Resources
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
Dr. Christian Walzer
Executive Director of Health
Wildlife Conservation Society
(1.0 Area of Professional Practice)
12:20 – 1:15 p.m.
Brown Bag Lunch: A Section Retrospective: 40 Years in 40 Minutes (or More)
Join former Section Chairs as we review the formation of the Section, discuss the environmental and energy issues addressed in each decade and share laughs, war stories and fond memories of past Section events, individuals and the history of environmental and energy law in New York.
Moderator: Jan Kublick, Esq.
Joel Sachs, Esq.
The Past and the Beginning of the Section
Rosemary Nichols Esq.
The ‘80s
Robert Kafin Esq.
The ‘90s
Walter Mugdan Esq.
The ‘00s
Carl Howard Esq.
The ‘10s
Professor Nicholas Robinson
The Present and Future
Adjournment
Please be sure to register for Day 2 of the Fall Meeting, a separate event on October 30 which will focus on Energy Law.
- Nick Ward-Willis, Esq., Chair, Keane & Beane PC
- Donna Mussio, Esq., Program Chair, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
- Jan S. Kublick, Esq., Program Chair, McMahon Kublick, PC
- Rick Shoyer, Speaker, Advanced GeoScience Corp./ Montrose
- Amy L. Reichhart, Esq., Speaker, Nixon Peabody LLP
- Nicholas A. Robinson, Speaker, Kerlin Professor of Environmental Law Emeritus
- Michael Burke, Speaker, Michael Burke Household
- Katharine J. Petronis, Speaker, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
- Mimi S. Raygorodetsky, Speaker, Langan
- John B. Kirkpatrick, Esq., Speaker, Kirkpatrick Law LLC
- Dr. Christian Walzer, Speaker, Health Wildlife Conservation Society
- Joel H. Sachs, Esq, Speaker, Keane & Beane PC
- Robert J. Kafin, Esq., Speaker, Proskauer
- Rosemary G. Nichols, Esq., Speaker, Rosemary Nichols Law Firm
- Walter E. Mugdan, Esq., Speaker, US Environmental Protection Agency
- Carl Howard, Esq., Speaker, US Environmental Protection Agency
- George Heitzman, P.E., Speaker, Division of Environmental Remediation NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
- Linda R. Shaw, Esq., Moderator, Knauf Shaw, LLP
- Lawrence P. Schnapf, Esq., Speaker, Schnapf LLC
- Christy Vouri-Misso, Esq., Speaker, Bousquet Holstein PLLC
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