"States in the Lead: How States Can Continue to Guide Federal Climate, Energy and Transportation Policy"

Friday, September 25, 2009, 12:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Georgetown University Law Center

Gewirz Student Center - 12th Floor

120 F Street, NW

Washington, D.C.  20001

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Luncheon

Welcome: T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

Remarks: Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Panel 1: New Approaches to Transportation and Land Use Planning

Will Schroeer, Policy Director, Smart Growth America

Brian Taylor, Professor and Chair of Urban Planning and Director of Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA

Brandon Hofmeister, Special Counsel for Energy and Climate Policy, Office of Governor Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.)

Moderator: Peter Byrne, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

2:45 - 4:15 p.m.

Panel 2: Innovative Technologies: Electricity/Renewables/Efficiency

Henry Durrwachter, President, Utility Wind Integration Group

Malcolm Woolf, Director, Maryland Energy Administration

Deborah Erwin, Renewable Energy Adviser, Wisconsin Public Service Commission

Moderator: Ann Carlson, Professor, UCLA School of Law

4:15 - 4:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks

This workshop is sponsored by the Georgetown State-Federal Climate Resource Center and the UCLA Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment.

A Web cast will be available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.

Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.