The Arkansas Bar Association (“Association”) is hosting its 20th annual Environmental Law Conference from April 21-22 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
The event will be held at the Crescent Hotel & Spa.
As a special event for the 20th anniversary, the Association is featuring as the keynote speaker Janet McCabe. Ms. McCabe is the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation.
Ms. McCabe formerly served as the EPA Office of Air and Radiation’s Principal Deputy to the Assistant Administrator and held a number of leadership positions in the Indiana Department of Environmental Management’s Office of Air Quality. She also previously served as Assistant Attorney General for Environmental Protection for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality officials such as Director Becky Keogh, along with Tammera Harrelson, Lorielle Gutting, Stuart Spencer, Michael McAlister and Ellen Carpenter will be undertaking presentations.
Other state personnel scheduled to speak include Jamie Ewing and Sara Tacker of the Attorney General’s Office, Administrative Law Judge of the Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission, Charles Moulton, and Deanna Ray of the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission.
Additional speakers include attorneys, environmental consultants and others.
Topics to be addressed include:
- Case Law Update
- Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality: A Year in Review and the Path Forward
- Environmental Protection Agency-Air
- Regulated Waste Overview
- The Evolution of Drinking Water Regulation
- Environmental Insurance-Using it in Transactions and Litigation
- Ethics: Role of Agency Attorneys, Balancing Public Interest and Client Contact by Outside Attorneys
- Review of the Updated ASTM Standard for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments E1527-13
- Seeing Clearly Through the Regional Haze: Overview of the Rule and the State Implementation Process
- Clean Power Plan-The Preliminary Assessment and Predictions
- Floodplan/Floodway and Flooding Discussion
- Conservation Easements: Legislation, Mechanics and Donor Benefits
- Panel Discussion of the Waters of the United States Rule
A copy of the brochure with registration information can be downloaded below.
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