Air Quality & Climate Change

Resetting the Course for US Environmental Protection Agency

Speakers:

Michelle Roos, Executive Director, Environmental Protection Network

Dennis McLerran, Cascadia Policy Solutions

Jeremy Symons, Symons Public Affairs

PNW Air Quality Issues: traffic-related pollutants, urban/rural inter-faces, industrial sources, wildfires and more.

Speakers:

Hector Olvera-Alvarez, PhD, PE, Sr. Associate Dean for Research, Oregon Health & Science University

Deepti Singh, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of the Environment, Washington State University Vancouver

George Conway, MD, MPH, Health Services Director, Deschutes County Health Services Department

Moderator:

Linda George, PhD, Professor of Environmental Science, Portland State University

What are the priorities? What are our available tools?

Speakers:

Mary Peveto, Executive Director, Neighbors for Clean Air

Kathy Taylor, PhD, Manager, Air Quality Program, Washington Department of Ecology

Amy Schlusser, Staff Attorney, Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School

Matthew Davis, Sr. Air Quality Policy Analyst, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

Moderator:

Holly Duncan, Environmental Attorney, Environmental Law Education Center

Oregon and Washington Approaches

Speakers:

Stuart Clark, Special Assistant to the Director, Washington Department of Ecology

Jay Manning, Cascadia Law Group

Colin McConnaha, Manager, Office of Greenhouse Gas Programs, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

Moderator:

Geoff Tichenor, Stoel Rives LLP

Speakers:

Melissa Powers, Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School; Director, Green Energy Institute

Tim Miller, Director, Oregon Business for Climate

Shannon Souza, P.E., Sol Coast Consulting

Moderator:

Amy Schlusser, Staff Attorney, Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School