BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9b34a7e21a6a0a2ddcb9a14db86274c0121 CATEGORIES:Webinars SUMMARY:NAEP Webinar: NEPA Case Law Update DESCRIPTION:
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The National Association of En vironmental Professionals (NAEP) will host the National Environmental Polic y Act (NEPA) Case Law Update webinar on Wednesday, July 15, 2020.
Thi s webinar will review substantive National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) cases issued by United States Courts of Appeals in 2019. The implications o f the decisions and relevance to NEPA practitioners will be explained. This webinar will summarize the more detailed paper prepared for this webinar.< /p>
The paper briefly explains, with an emphasis on the substantive NEPA findings, each opinion issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals. The paper ident ifies statistics regarding the NEPA appellate opinions, such as ten-year re cord of NEPA cases, organized by circuit, and by year. The paper also ident ifies the agencies involved in each case, and presents statistics relevant to the agencies; the paper further identifies the prevailing ratio of feder al agencies, including by agency and by document type (categorical exclusio n, environmental assessment, environmental impact statement).
The pap er analyzes the trends in the court opinions involving NEPA for 2019, with an emphasis on substantive NEPA practice, and by grouping of the cases. Fin ally, each court opinion is paraphrased and organized in a manner easy to r ead for practitioners to find the court’s ruling. Appellate opinions are gr ouped and analyzed by the agency. Past trends include challenges to the pur pose and need, alternatives considered, public comment, scientific impact a ssessment methodologies, GHG emissions and climate change impact assessment , incomplete or unavailable information, determination of significance, seg mentation, duty to supplement, connected actions, federal actions, cumulati ve impact assessment, mitigation, monitoring, and adaptive management.
Please join us for the popular webinar offering.
Moderator
< em>Fred Wagner, Venable LLP
< span style="color: #888888; font-size: 18px;">Speakers
P.E. Hudson, Esq., Dep't of the Navy, Office of General Coun sel
P.E. Hudson, Esq. is the Counsel, Department of the Navy Office of General Counsel, at Center for Seabees and Facilities Engineerin g and Civil Engineer Corps Officer School at Naval Base Ventura County, Cal ifornia. The focus of her practice is environmental law and planning, and s pecifically NEPA; she also develops and teaches courses involving NEPA, env ironmental planning and impact analysis, and environmental law, with a spec ial emphasis on coastal and ocean resources, to federal employees. She has published 13 federal agency, academic, and peer-reviewed articles on enviro nmental planning and impact assessment since 2013. She has 17 years of NEPA experience, 34 years of federal agency experience. She served as the info rmal Chair of the NAEP CEQ Pilot Project, Best Practice Principles for Envi ronmental Assessments, which was lauded by the CEQ. She also received the N AEP President's Service Award in 2013 and 2015. She is a retired Navy Comm ander. **The views expressed are solely the personal views of the author an d do not reflect those of the Department of the Navy, the Department of Def ense or the Federal Government.
Michael is a Principal with Ecology and Environment, Inc. (a member of WSP), a global network of innovators an d problem solvers, dedicated professionals and industry leaders in scientif ic, engineering, impact assessment and planning disciplines working collabo ratively with federal, state and local government and private sector client s to develop technically sound, science-based solutions to the leading envi ronmental challenges of our time. E&E has successfully completed more t han 50,000 projects in 122 countries in nearly every ecosystem on the plane t.. His current work focuses on providing project and program management, t echnical analysis and review, policy development and review, and training a nd education focused on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Califo rnia Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance for some of the nation's a nd California’s most complex and controversial projects relating to energy development, transportation infrastructure projects, approvals of genetical ly engineered plants, commercial space transportation operations, and rulem akings for national motor vehicle fuel economy standards. He frequently pro vides training and strategic advice for NEPA and related environmental comp liance requirements as an adjunct faculty member at numerous educational in stitutions, including the UC Davis Extension Land Use and Natural Resources Program, the UCLA Extension Sustainability Program, and the NEPA Certifica te Program at the Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State Univer sity. He has served as a Science & Technology Policy Fellow with the Am erican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) at the Environment al Protection Agency’s (EPA) headquarters Office of Water and Office of Fed eral Activities in Washington, DC. He has also held positions with the U.S. Department of Interior – National Park Service in Biscayne, Glacier and Yo semite National Parks.
Michael holds a Ph.D. in Environmental and Nat ural Resources Sociology from Utah State University, an M.A. in Geography a nd Resources from the University of Wyoming, and a B.A. in Environmental St udies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Pric ing
NAEP Member: $75
ACRA Member: $75 (with discount code)
Chapter Members: $125
Non-memb
er: $140