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For more information, please contact [email protected]. elcome to the inaugural conference for Michigan Law's WEnvironmental Law and Policy Program. We gather in the midst of a presidential election year, at a time when the global environment faces unprecedented challenges. After eight years of an administration when the environment was not a priority, our conference offers an opportunity to consider "An Environmental Agenda for the Next Administration" that provides the leadership and change necessary for us to become better stewards of the earth and our natura I environment. We are honored that Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm will be our featured speaker on Thursday. Gov. Granholm has made alternative energy and sustainability central features of her agenda for the State of Michigan. We are grateful for the leadership that she is providing both within our state and nationally through her work with the National Governors Association . We also are delighted that Georgetown Law Professor Lisa Heinzerling will be our luncheon speaker on Friday. Professor Heinzerling was the lead author of the petitioners' briefs in Massachusetts v. EPA. where the Supreme Court held that greenhouse gases are pollutants that can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Our moderators are University of Michigan professors who are leading interdisciplinary efforts to address climate change, alternative energy, and sustainability issues. They are joined by panelists that include prominent academics, policy-makers, public interest lawyers, and corporate officials. We are pleased that our conference attendees include Michigan Law faculty and students, their colleagues from other schools at the University of Michigan, as well as other law schools, and civic leaders and interested citizens from the Ann Arbor community and throughout Michigan. We would like to extend a special welcome to our alumni, many of whom will be here this weekend to celebrate their 30th, 35th, 40th, 45th, 50th, and 55th law school reunions, and a special thank you to the Environmental Law Society, which is co-sponsoring the conference, and the Michigan Law Review, which will feature the conference in an on line issue of First Impressions. I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible during the next two days and welcome your suggestions about themes and topics for future conferences, as well as other ELPP events. Thank you for joining us and helping to make our inaugural conference a success. David M. Uhlmann Director, Environmental Law and Policy Program Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2008 Honigman Auditorium, 100 Hutchins Hall, law School 4:00 p.m. WELCOME David M. Uhlmann Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Program; Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice, University of Michigan Law School FEATURED SPEAKER INTRODUCTION Evan H. Caminker Dean, University of Michigan Law School FEATURED SPEAKER The Honorable Jennifer M. Granholm Governor. State of Michigan TRIBUTE PRESENTATIONS Certificates of Tribute to the University of Michigan Members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5:00 p.m. RECEPTION lawyers Club FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2008 All panel discussions are held in 250 Hutchins Hall, Law School 8:00 a.m. REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST 9:00 -10:30 a.m. CLIMATE CHANGE PANEL MODERATOR Thomas P. Lyon Director of the Erb Institute for Global Environmental Sustainable Enterprise; Dow Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce; Professor of Business Economics; Professor of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan PANELISTS Joseph E. Aldy Fellow, Resources for the Future, Washington. D.C.; Co-Director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements Ann E. Carlson Faculty Director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment; Co-Director of the Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic; Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law Edward A. Parson Professor of Law; Professor of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan Lois J. Schiffer General Counsel, National Capital Planning Commission; former Assistant Attorney General (1994-2001 ), U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C. 2 10:45-12:15 p.m. ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PANEL MODERATOR Gary S. Was Director of the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute; Walter J. Weber Jr. Professor of Sustainable Energy, Environmental and Earth Systems Engineering; Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences; Professor of Material Science and Engineering, University of Michigan PANELISTS Anna Aurilio Director of the Washington, D.C., office for Environment America Michael Dworkin Director of the Institute for Energy and the Environment; Professor of Law, Vermont Law School Victor B. Flatt Taft Distinguished Visiting Professor of Environmental Law, University of North Carolina School of Law; A.L. O'Quinn Chair in Environ­ mental Law; Director of the Center for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, University of Houston Law Center Miriam Horn Co-author of Earth: The Sequel; The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. LUNCHEON Law Quadrangle (Tent) SPEAKER Lisa Heinzerling Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; Lead Author, Petitioners' Briefs, in Massachusetts v. EPA (U.S. S. Ct.) 1:45 -3:15p.m. SUSTAINABILITY PANEL MODERATOR John R. Chamberlin Director of the Center for Ethics in Public Life; Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan PANELISTS Jonathan Z. Cannon Director of Environmental and Land Use Law Program; Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School John C. Dernbach Professor of Law, Widener University Phyllis P. Harris Vice President for Environmental Compliance, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc , Bentonville, Arkansas Howard A. Learner President and Executive Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Center, Chicago, Illinois 3:15p.m. (LOSING REMARKS David M. Uhlmann 3 Jennifer M. Granholm Governor, State of Michigan Jennifer M. Granholm was re-elected the 47th governor of Michigan in November 2006. Since taking office in 2003, she has success­ fully resolved more than $4 billion in budget deficits, trimming more from state government than any governor in Michigan's history. A fiscal hawk, Granholm has worked to ensure that state government spends every penny efficiently. At the same time, she is working aggressively to diversify Michigan's economy, ensure world-class educational opportunities for every Michigan student, create uni­ versal access to affordable health care, and stand up for Michigan workers and families during tough economic times. Granholm began her career in public service as a clerk for U.S. Judge Damon Keith on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1990, Granholm became a federal prosecutor in Detroit, where she maintained a 98 percent conviction rate . In 1994, Granholm was appointed Wayne County corporation counsel. She worked to reduce taxpayer-funded lawsuit payouts by 87 percent. Elected Michigan's first female at­ torney general in 1998, Granholm continued her fight to protect Michigan's citizens and consumers. She established the state's first high-tech crime unit to prosecute Internet crimes. Following the September 11 attacks, Granholm led a multi-agency effort to ensure that Michigan laws could effectively be used to fight terrorism at the state level . In the wake of the attacks, as well as fol­ lowing Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Granholm, an advocate for protecting citizens and their pocketbooks, took swift action to protect consumers from price gouging at the pump by unscrupulous gas station owners. As attorney general, Granholm also started a successful statewide mentoring initiative. Despite tough fiscal times, Granholm has increased spending for Michigan's public schools to record levels. The first in her family to attend college, Granholm has.championed universal access to higher education. In December 2006, Granholm signed legislation creating the Michigan Promise scholarship, a first-in-the-nation program that awards $4,000 to every Michigan student who successfully completes two years of post-secondary education. Michigan was cited by Governing magazine as the third best-managed state in the nation giving Michigan and the Granholm administration high marks in the areas of money, people, infrastructure, and information management. Jennifer Granholm was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is an honors graduate of both the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard