Environmental & Energy Law and Local & State Gov’t Law Joint Fall 2021 Meeting

Topics to Include:

• Siting Renewable Energy & Other Natural Resource Intense Projects – Are Host Community Benefit Agreements helping to Overcoming NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) Opposition
• Cannabis – Is Your Community Going to Opt in or Out?
• Brownfield Redevelopment in Environmental Justice Communities – Hear from the Developers Successfully Implementing these Projects
• PFAS Was Found in Our Drinking Water Supply – What Do We Do Now?!
• The Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) Program– What is New with the BOA Program and How to Leverage its Benefits
• The Impact of Climate Change, the Energy Transition and Executive Order 14008 on Petrostates (Petroleum Producing Nations) in Developing Economies
• Emerging Trends in Municipal Innovation
• Coming Back to the Office – Hot Topics in Labor Law
• Update on Enacted and Pending Legislation and Recent Case Law Affecting Municipalities
• Crumbling Foundations In Light of the Surfside Florida Disaster – Ethical Obligations of Municipal Attorneys in Light of Impending Catastrophe

Speakers

Moderator: Daniel A. Spitzer, Esq., Hodgson Russ LLP

Dr. Mark Humbert, Executive Director, Wayne County Land Bank Corporation

Dr. Sean P. Pogue, Town Supervisor

Moderator: Telisport Putsavage, Esq., Putsavage PLLC

Keeley Crosson, Director, Strategic Development, Etain Health

Jacob H. Zoghlin, Esq., The Zoghlin Group, PLLC

Moderator: Jose A. Almanzar, Esq., Beveridge & Diamond PC

Marvin Wilmoth, Managing Principal & Co-Founder, Generation Development Group

Rashid Walker, Managing Director, Acquisitions; BRP Companies

Dawanna Williams, Esq., Founder, Managing Principal; Dabar Development Partners LLC

Moderator: Amy K. Kendall, Esq., Knauf Shaw LLP

Michelle J. Kelson, Esq., Corporation Counsel, City of Newburgh

Rick Shoyer, Senior Project Consultant, Montrose Environmental

Edward Flynn, AICP, Director of Planning, LaBella Associates, Rochester

Moderator: Teraine Okpoko, Esq., International Energy Trader

Professor Tracy-Lynn Field, University of the Witwatersrand School of Law, South Africa, Attorney Advocate of the High Court of South Africa

Moderator: Joseph Greco Trapp, Esq., Greco Trapp, PLLC

Kirk McLean, Director, Open Data

Alicia R. Legland, Esq., Hodgson Russ LLP

Moderator: Chris G. Trapp, Esq., Greco Trapp, PLLC

John F. Corcoran, Esq., Hancock Estabrook, LLP

James D. Bilik, Esq., Arbitrator & Mediator

Wade Beltramo, Esq., General Counsel, New York State Conference of Mayors

Kevin M. Kearney,Esq., General Counsel, Hodgson Russ LLP

Peter Palazzo, President, Fuller Construction Management

Section Chair: Linda R. Shaw, Esq., Environmental & Energy Law Section Chair

Section Chair: Michael E. Kenneally, Esq., Local & State Government Law Section Chair

Charles W. Malcomb, Esq., Hodgson Russ LLP

Joseph G. Trapp, Esq., Greco Trapp, PLLC

Helen Mauch, Esq., Helen Mauch, Mintzer Mauch PLLC