Seventh Annual Earth Day Climate Change Symposium

The Seventh Annual Earth Day Climate Change Symposium will consider multiple developments relating to climate change, including changing federal policies concerning renewable energy sources, the endangerment finding, and climate science; a sea change in NEPA requirements; and litigation against “Big Oil”.

Program Chair: Matthew J. Sinkman, Partner, FBT Gibbons LLP 

Moderator: Carl R. Howard, Former Chair, NYSBA Environmental & Energy Law Section (EELS); Co-Chair, NYSBA EELS Global Climate Change Committee; Author, Global Climate Change Blog; Assistant Regional Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 

Professor Michael Gerrard; Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice; Founder and Faculty Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School

Timothy J. Hagerty; Partner, FBT Gibbons LLP

Rachel Maman Kish, Assistant Attorney General, New York State Office of the Attorney General

Professor Katrina Fischer Kuh, Faculty Director of the Environmental Law Program, Pace University

Cullen Howe, Senior Advocate, Sustainable FERC Project, Natural Resources Defense Council

Lauren Kurtz, Executive Director, Climate Science Legal Defense Fund 

Sponsors

Global Climate Change Committee, Environmental and Energy Law Section

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School

Columbia Climate School, Columbia University

Environmental and Energy Law Section

Committee on Continuing Legal Education