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About

NAEP has compiled a panel of industry recognized experts to walk environmental practitioners through the latest guidance from the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) recent guidance on incorporating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change. Topics will include an overview of the guidance, how to perform the requirements, lessons learned from previous projects and a discussion on what all this means for NEPA practitioners. 

Moderated By Michelle Rau

Speakers

Michael D. Smith, PhD

National Practice Leader, Environmental Process and Policy
WSP

Michael is a nationally-recognized leader in environmental policy and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance, with more than 29 years of experience in environmental impact assessment, project and program management, policy development, land use planning, business development, group leader, and training/education with the federal government, private sector, academia, and non-governmental organizations. His technical areas of expertise include assisting clients with successfully navigating complex permitting situations; cumulative impact analysis; greenhouse gas emissions and climate change analysis; socioeconomics and environmental justice analysis; and designing strategies for streamlining NEPA and CEQA and related permitting processes and reviews.

Michael has managed and provided environmental compliance review for some of the nation's largest, most complex, and highly controversial projects, including major energy (fossil and renewable), transportation, and water resources infrastructure projects, approval of genetically engineered plants, commercial space transportation operations, legalized cannabis regulatory programs, and approval of new fuel economy standards for all vehicles operated in the United States. He frequently provides training and strategic advice for NEPA, CEQA, and related environmental compliance requirements for public and private sector clients and as a faculty member at the University of California Los Angeles Extension Environmental Studies and Sustainability Programs, the University of California Davis Extension Land Use and Natural Resources Program, and served on a White House Council on Environmental Quality Task Force on NEPA training.

Doug Huxley
Senior Engineering Expert
Jacobs

Doug Huxley is a senior engineering expert in carbon management, climate change, and air quality at Jacobs. He has more than 20 years of specialization with greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory and management for corporations, state and local governments, military and other federal agencies, and major infrastructure projects. His sector-specific GHG and air quality management background includes chemicals, steel and aluminum, semiconductors, life sciences and health case, oil & gas upstream and midstream, electric power, manufacturing, mining, food and beverage, wastewater treatment, landfills and solid waste, and transportation. He has supported the GHG Protocol, Climate Registry, and USEPA with development of new GHG accounting standards, and recently served as exert technical advisor to the government of New South Wales high-emitting industries program. Doug has also led climate change and air quality analyses for actions under NEPA, CEQA, SEPA, World Bank, and International Finance Corporation environmental standards. He is a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines and a licensed chemical engineer in Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico.

Rich Walter, AEP
Vice President
ICF

Rich leads ICF’s climate action planning practice which supports local and regional agencies on GHG emissions and climate adaptation. Rich has led ICF in the development of climate action plans across California, GHG inventories for hundreds of communities across the U.S., general plan policies addressing climate change, cost-benefit analyses of emission reduction strategies, studies of adaptation to sea-level rise, as well as numerous CEQA and NEPA documents addressing GHG emissions and adaptation.

Charles Nicholson

Senior Environmental Scientist
HDR

Dr. Nicholson is an elected NAEP board member and chair of the NEPA Practice. He is presently employed as a part-time Senior Environmental Scientist at HDR primarily serving as a NEPA advisor, document reviewer, and co-chair of the HDR Impact Assessment Group. In early 2017, he retired from the Tennessee Valley Authority where he most recently served as Senior NEPA Compliance Specialist. His previous positions at TVA included zoologist, wildlife biologist, and Endangered Species Act compliance specialist. He has managed the production of numerous environmental assessments and environmental impact statements for a wide range of actions. He is chair of his town's urban forestry commission and Sheltowee Trace Association board member. He has a B.S. degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Science from the University of Tennessee, a M.S. degree in Wildlife Management from the University of Maine, and a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee.

Ted Boling
Partner
Perkins Coie LLP

Edward (Ted) Boling served as the country’s top National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) attorney as counsel and an associate director at the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in the Executive Office of the President. Ted served at CEQ, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in Democratic and Republican administrations. His experience includes deep involvement in federal infrastructure permitting issues and the first comprehensive revision of CEQ’sNEPA regulations in 40 years. Drawing on over 30 years of high-level public service, Ted currently advises leaders on infrastructure development projects, agencies that must hire outside counsel, and the environmental professionals that support them on the development of renewable energy, resource development, transportation, and transmission infrastructure. 

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