Webinars

Belonging: Leadership When Guiding Through Transition

April 29, 2021

Speakers

Asti Davis from Baton Rouge
Laticia Hall-Cannon from Syracuse 
Ali H. Mir from LA

Moderator

Ron Deverman


Have you wanted to expand your professional network? Do you want to become a leader in the environmental professions? NOW is your opportunity. Listen to NAEP’s free informational webinar “Belonging: Leadership When Guiding Through Transition” to learn more about leadership opportunities, to hear three fascinating personal career stories, and to discuss the value of getting involved and staying involved with NAEP, its affiliated Chapters, and other environmental professional associations.

For this month’s webinar our unique career storytellers include Baton Rouge native Asti Davis who works at the intersection of law and environmental justice with a focus on green economies, social justice, urban forestry and policymaking. She believes her work in environmental justice is an integral component of the continuing civil rights movement. Asti also runs a social media platform called Environista to help spread awareness of legal and social justice issues.

Latisia Hall-Cannon from Syracuse is a Program Quality Engineering Manager and Syracuse Site Diversity & Inclusion Lead with Lockheed Martin. She is well versed in listening and communicating to resolve business conflicts. She is passionate about diversity and inclusion and the importance of all people growing in areas of leadership. Latisia also runs a social media platform for social, cultural, and educational events in and around Syracuse. She hosts two series, “WOKE Wednesday” and “The WOKE Lifestyle,” that give exposure to new ideas on how to build up urban communities and celebrate our collective cultures.

Our third career storyteller is Ali H. Mir, Vice President and West Region Planning Director of STV, Inc. Ali has led NEPA/CEQA environmental clearances for community planning projects, residential and retail development projects, educational institution projects, and bus and rail transit projects in California and Oregon. Ali served as the Director of Muslim Student Life at the University of Southern California (USC) for five years and currently serves as American Planning Association-Los Angeles Section’s Equity Director. Ali is currently leading the development of a Gender Action Plan for LA Metro.

This webinar will be moderated by Ron Deverman, NAEP Past President and NAEP Fellow. 

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Corporate Social Responsibility in Environmental Business

March 2, 2021

Speakers

Michael Hendrix, LSA
Rich Walter
Preeti Verma

Moderator

Corine de Zeeuw


Sustainability reporting and planning has become more mainstream in recent years. The development of having investors require companies to report on sustainability sends a signal. It is now considered of importance, not only for the environment, employees, and communities, but certainly also from a risk and financial perspective. In this webinar, our expert panel will provide insight into the Corporate Sustainability Plans of their organizations, how these have been developed, and their benefits.  

Michael Hendrix will be speaking on the development and implementation of the Corporate Sustainability Plan of LSA Associates. Michael has been involved in the development and will elaborate on how to set a Corporate Sustainability Plan up from the start. Of special interest is the fact that LSA Associates is an employee-owned company and therefore the Plan is customized so that every employee has a part in meeting the company’s sustainability goals.  

Rich Walter will present the Corporate Sustainability Plan for ICF, a global advisory and digital services provider with approximately 7,000 employees.   

Preeti Verma will discuss the various sustainability reporting protocols including Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). 

Join us to learn the ins and outs of setting up a Corporate Sustainability Plan. This time not for our clients, but our environmental and engineering consultancies. 

Michael Hendrix
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Rich Walter
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Preeti Verma
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NEPA Case Law Update 

September 5, 2019 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT

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The National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP) will host the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Case Law Update webinar on Thursday, September 5, 2019.

This webinar will review substantive National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) cases issued by United States Courts of Appeals in 2018. The implications of the decisions and relevance to NEPA practitioners will be explained. This webinar will summarize the more detailed paper prepared for this webinar.

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 NEPA appellate opinions, such as ten-year record of NEPA cases, organized by circuit, and by year. The paper also identifies the agencies involved in each case, and presents statistics relevant to the agencies; the paper further identifies the prevailing ratio of federal agencies, including by agency and by document type (categorical exclusion, environmental assessment, environmental impact statement).

The paper analyzes the trends in the court opinions involving NEPA for 2018, with an emphasis on substantive NEPA practice, and by 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 the agency. Past trends include challenges to the purpose and need, alternatives considered, public comment, scientific impact assessment methodologies, GHG emissions and climate change impact assessment, incomplete or unavailable information, determination of significance, segmentation, duty to supplement, connected actions, federal actions, cumulative impact assessment, mitigation, monitoring, and adaptive management. 

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Moderator

Fred R. Wagener, Venable LLC

Speakers

Michael Smith, Ph.D.

Michael is a Senior Environmental Practice Leader for National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) with GEI Consultants in Sacramento, CA, one of the nation's leading geotechnical, environmental, water resources, and ecological science and engineering firms. GEI has provided consulting and engineering services on over 35,000 projects in all 50 U.S. states and internationally in over 20 countries. His current work focuses on providing project and program management, technical analysis and review, policy development and review, and training and education focused on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance for some of the nation's and California’s most complex and controversial projects relating to energy development, transportation infrastructure projects, approvals of genetically engineered plants, commercial space transportation operations, and rulemakings for national motor vehicle fuel economy standards. He frequently provides training and strategic advice for NEPA and related environmental compliance requirements as an adjunct faculty member at numerous educational institutions, including the UC Davis Extension Land Use and Natural Resources Program, the UCLA Extension Sustainability Program, and the NEPA Certificate Program at the Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University.

He has served as a Science & Technology Policy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) at the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) headquarters Office of Water and Office of Federal Activities in Washington, DC. He has also held positions with the U.S. Department of Interior – National Park Service in Biscayne, Glacier and Yosemite National Parks. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resources Sociology from Utah State University, an M.A. in Geography and Resources from the University of Wyoming, and a B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

P.E. Hudson, Esq., Dep't of the Navy, Office of General Counsel

P.E. Hudson, Esq. is the Counsel, Department of the Navy Office of General Counsel, at Center for Seabees and Facilities Engineering and Civil Engineer Corps Officer School at Naval Base Ventura County, California. The focus of her practice is environmental law and planning, and specifically NEPA; she also develops and teaches courses involving NEPA, environmental planning and impact analysis, and environmental law, with a special emphasis on coastal and ocean resources, to federal employees. She has published 13 federal agency, academic, and peer-reviewed articles on environmental planning and impact assessment since 2013. She has 17 years of NEPA experience, 34 years of federal agency experience.  She served as the informal Chair of the NAEP CEQ Pilot Project, Best Practice Principles for Environmental Assessments, which was lauded by the CEQ. She also received the NAEP President's Service Award in 2013 and 2015.  She is a retired Navy Commander. **The views expressed are solely the personal views of the author and do not reflect those of the Department of the Navy, the Department of Defense or the Federal Government.


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NAEP Member: $75
ACRA Member: $75 (with discount code) 
Chapter Members: $125
Non-member: $140

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NEPA Legislative Update with Ted Boling/CEQ

July 25, 2019 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT

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The National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP) is proud to host its annual NEPA Policy and Legislative Update. The July 25th webinar will provide current information on developments regarding the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

The presentation will be made by Ted Boling from The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Please join us for this timely and important topic. 


 Moderator

Michelle Rau, NAEP Secretary, Jacobs

Speaker

Ted Boling, Associate Director for NEPA, Council on Environmental Quality

Edward (Ted) Boling is the Associate Director for National Environmental Policy Act at the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), a position he assumed in January of 2016 after upon his return to CEQ after five years at the Department of the Interior. Ted served as Deputy Solicitor for Parks & Wildlife at the U.S. Department of the Interior, where he supervised the work of the Solicitor's Office in support of programs of the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Ted joined the Department in August of 2010, as Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management where he focused on land management planning and renewable energy development and was Deputy Solicitor for Land Resources from April of 2011 to July of 2013. Before Interior, Ted served ten years at CEQ as Deputy General Counsel beginning in August of 2000, General Counsel beginning in January of 2008, and Senior Counsel from September of 2009.


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NAEP Member: $75
Chapter Members: $125
Non-member: $140

This webinar is approved for 1.5 AICP credits.

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