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2021 Agenda

Annual Meeting begins on Thursday, September 30, 2021

Thursday, September 30, 2021

2:00 pm – 4:30 pm  Opening Session at the NM Legislature Round House: State of New Mexico: Balancing Resources, the Environment and the Economy

4:30 pm – 7:30 pm  Reception at Nedra Matteucci Gallery, https://www.matteucci.com/sculpture-garden

7:30 pm – 9:30 pm  No Host Dinners

Friday, October 1, 2021

7:30 am to 2:00 pm  ACOEL Breakfast, Lunch and Business

Lunch – Keynote Speaker

                Brenda Mallory (invited) – Chair, CEQ

2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. – Climate Change: Sustainability and Environmental Justice

                                Program Coordinators – Earl Philips, Jessie Merrigan

                                                Ben Wilson – Moderator (PP – DC) (Amy Edwards confirmed – 3/8/21)

                                                Sean Hecht – UCLA (EJ)

Vicki Arroyo – Climate (Tentative – needs org approval) (Nominee, EPA Policy AA)

Hilary Tompkins – Sustainability and Native American Perspective (PP DC)

3:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. – Climate Change: Tort Liability

                                Program Coordinator – Tracy Hester

Catherine McCabe – Moderator

                                                Peter Lehner – NGO (Earthjustice – NY)

                                                Peter Hsiao – Private Practice (Los Angeles)

                                                Michael Burger – Columbia University (Tentative – Tracy will contact)

On your own

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm   ACOEL Annual Reception and Dinner – An Evening in Santa Fe at Tom Hnasko’s home

Saturday, October 2, 2021

7:30 am to 9:25 am     ACOEL Breakfast and Business

9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. – NEPA Regulatory Process in Biden Administration

                                Program Coordinators – Irma Russell and Linda Bullen

                                                Tracy Hester – Moderator (Academic)

                                                JB Ruhl – Vanderbilt

                                                Linda Bullen – Private Practice

Justin Pidot – Tentative (Nominee, GC at CEQ – Linda Bullen will contact after he is confirmed)

 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Supreme Court Year in Review

                                Program Coordinators – Steve Miano and John Cruden

                                                John Cruden (PP – DC)

                                                Bob Percival (University of Maryland Carey School of Law)

                                                Sanne Knudsen (University of Washington School of Law)

12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. – Environmental Lawyers’ Ethical Duties Embodied in Rules of Ethics

                                Program Coordinator – Irma Russell

                                                Irma Russell – Kansas City, MO (UMKC School of Law)

                                                John Dernbach – Harrisburg, PA (Widener University Law School)

                                                Potential Third Speaker (Alex Dunn – Irma will contact?)

3:30 pm to 9:30 pm     ACOEL Saturday Event – Albuquerque Balloon Festival