Energy Bar Association - December 19, 2017
The Clean Power Plan: W hat Lies Beyond - Speaker Biographies
David Doniger, Director, Climate & Clean Air Program, NRDC, Washington, D C. David has been at the forefront of the battle against air pollution and global climate change since he joined NRDC in 1978. He helped formulate the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement designed to stop the depletion of the earth's ozone layer, as well as several essential amendments to the Clean Air Act. In 1993, he left NRDC to serve on the White House Council on Environmental Quality, followed by key posts at the U S. Environmental Protection Agency. He rejoined NRDC in 2001 and has since been working to defend the Clean Air Act from assaults in Congress.
Michael G. Dowd is Director of the Air and Renewable Energy Division for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. In that position, Mr. Dowd oversees the air quality planning, permitting, compliance, monitoring and mobile source programs, as well as the Small Renewable Energy Permit by Rule program for the Commonwealth. Prior to becoming Air Director, Mr. Dowd served as DEQ's Enforcement Director. Before joining DEQ, Mr. Dowd was an attorney in private practice with law firms in Richmond, Virginia, Washington, D C., and Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Dowd is a graduate of Columbia University and holds a J.D. from Vermont Law School. He is a recipient of EPA's Bronze Medal. Mr. Dowd is Treasurer and Past Chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Management Association (MARAMA), Committee co-chair and former Board Member of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA), Board Member of Southeast States Air Resources Management, Inc. (SESARM), a member of the Executive Committee of the National Council on Electricity Policy, and a member of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group.
Thomas Lorenzen, Partner, Crowell & Moring's Washington, DC. Tom is a member of the Environment & Natural Resources and Government Affairs groups at Crowell & Moring, where he focuses on the development and judicial review of federal environmental regulations. Tom was the principal author of the challengers' procedural and record issue briefs in the Clean Power Plan case and argued a portion of the case when it was heard by the D C. Circuit sitting en banc in September 2016. For nearly a decade, from 2004 to 2013, Tom was the Assistant Chief at the Department of Justice responsible for managing the legal defense of all EPA rules. There, he oversaw many of the seminal environmental cases of the last decade, including Massachusetts v. EPA, in which the Supreme Court affirmed EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, and Coalitionfor Responsible Regulation v. EPA, in which the DC. Circuit upheld EPA's first suite of greenhouse gas regulations.
Justin Schwab, Deputy General Counsel, EPA. Justin serves as Deputy General Counsel at EPA, a politically appointed position that includes legal oversight of several significant EPA rulemaking actions under the Clean Air Act. Justin first joined the Agency at the start of the new administration as legal advisor to the `beachhead' team. He previously worked on several highprofile matters involving the Clean Air Act at his former law firm, Baker & Hostetler. Justin previously clerked for both Judge Richard Wesley on the U S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Christine Durham on the Utah Supreme Court. He holds a law degree from Yale University and a Ph D. in classics from the University of California at Berkley.
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