BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b2e4819f35b305f6d28cfb5c993ff52d350 CATEGORIES:Webinars SUMMARY:NAEP Webinar: NEPA Caselaw Update DESCRIPTION:
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About
This web inar will mirror the Case Law presentation provided during the recent NAEP 2023 Conference & Training Symposium, with updates as warranted. The panel is focused on a paper that reviews substantive National Environm ental Policy Act (NEPA) cases issued by the United States Courts of Appeals in 2022. The implications of the decisions and their relevance to NEPA pra ctitioners will be explained. This webinar will summarize the more detailed paper prepared for the 2023 conference session. The paper briefly explains , with an emphasis on the substantive NEPA findings, each opinion issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals. The paper identifies statistics regarding the N EPA appellate opinions, such as a twelve-year record of NEPA cases, organiz ed by circuit, and by year. The paper also identifies the agencies involved in each case and presents statistics relevant to the agencies; the paper f urther identifies the prevailing ratio of federal agencies, including by ag ency and by document type (categorical exclusion, environmental assessment, environmental impact statement). The paper analyzes the trends in the cour t opinions involving NEPA for 2022, with an emphasis on substantive NEPA pr actice, and by the grouping of the cases.
Finally, each court opinion is paraphrased and organized in a manner easy to read for practitioners to find the court's ruling. Appellate opinions are grouped and analyzed by ag ency. Past trends include challenges to purpose and need, alternatives cons idered, public comment, scientific impact assessment methodologies, GHG emi ssions and climate change impact assessment, incomplete or unavailable info rmation, determination of significance, segmentation, duty to supplement, c onnected actions, federal actions, cumulative impact assessment, mitigation , monitoring, and adaptive management. Suggestions for improving the implem entation of the NEPA process and to meeting current challenges are offered, looking ahead to the future with a renewed emphasis on one of the world's oldest and most forward-looking environmental laws.
Please join us for the popular webinar offering.
Moderator
Fred Wagner, NAEP Elected At-Lar
ge Board Member
Partner
Venable LLP
Fred Wager focuses on environmental and natural resource issues, a ssociated with major infrastructure, mining, and energy project development . Fred was appointed chief counsel of the U.S. Federal Highway Administrati on (FHWA) during the Obama administration. Fred began his career as a trial attorney in the Environment Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a special assistant U.S. attorney in the Misdemeanor Trial Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Prior t o joining Venable, he spent more than 20 years in private practice at a nat ional law firm focusing on environmental and natural resources issues.
Spea kers
P.E. "Pam" Hudson, Esq.
NAVFAC SW
Department of the Navy Office of General Cou
nsel
An NAEP member since 2013, P.E. "Pam" Hudson serves as the Senior Associate Counsel for Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southwes t. Prior to joining NAVFAC, Ms. Hidson served as Counsel for Cibil Engineer Corps Officers School, where a majority of her portfolio notably included environmental impact assessment legal sufficiency reviews and the Nacy's en vironmental law training program. Since 2013, Ms. Hudson has authored fifte en federal agency, academic and peer-reviewed articled, which have been cit ed in the Federal Register, on agency websites and journals, academic journ als, and in news articles. She has twenty years of environmental impact ass essment experience; from 2013-2015, she served on NAEP's committee for the CEQ's Pilot Project on Best Practice Principles for Environmental Assessmen ts. Prior to joining the Office of General Counsel, she practiced at Kilpat rick Stockton, LLP, in Atlanta, Georgia, and Roetzel & Andress in Naple s, Florida. She interned as a federal clerk for the Northern District of Fl orida for the Honorable Robert Hinkle. Ms. Hudson is an alumna of Florida S tate University School of Law, where she was the Beverly Stout McLear Envir onmental and Land Use Scholar. Ms. Hudson retired from the Navy as Commande r (Oceanography). *Ms. Hudson's views are hers alone, and do not reflect th e views of the Department of Defense or the Navy.
Charles (Chuck
) Nicholson, NAEP Elected At-Large Board Member
Senior En
vironmental Planner/Scientist
HDR
Dr. Nicholson has been a NAEP Member for over 10 years and is an elected NAEP Board Member and chair of the NEPA Practice Group. Chuck has 43 years of professional experience in the environmental and natural resources fields and 23 years as a NEPA co mpliance specialist. He has extensive experience in the preparation of EIS, EA, and CE documentation for a wide range of actions. Chuck earned his Ph. D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2004, an MS in Wildlife Management from the University of Main e in 1978, and a BS in Wildlife and Fisheries from the University of Tennes see, Knoxville in 1975.