2020 Changes at the EPA Workshop

Wednesday, October 7:

11:00 a.m. (All Times Eastern)- Welcome, Introductions and Brief Overview

11:30-1:00 pm - "A Profound Commitment to the Preservation of the Earth." Origins and Overview of the EPA and Modern Environmental Movement

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Richard "Pete" Andrews

Professor Emeritus, Department of Public Policy, UNC

Gerald Torres

Professor of Environmental Justice, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Stan Meiburg

Former Acting Deputy Administrator, EPA (2014-2017); director, Graduate Programs and Sustainability, Wake Forest University

1:00 - 1:30 p.m. - Break

1:30 - 3:00 p.m. – Deregulation and Eroding Protections: Making Sense of the Trump Administration's Wave of Rollbacks

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Elizabeth "Betsy" Southerland

Former Director of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water (2012-2017);

Oday Salim

Director, Environmental Law & Sustainability Clinic, University of Michigan School of Law; staff attorney, National Wildlife Federation

Mary Nichols

Chair, California Air Resources Board

3:00 - 3:15 p.m. – Break

3:15 - 4:15 p.m. - A Conversation with Gina McCarthy

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Gina McCarthy

President & CEO, Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund/13th Administrator of the U.S. EPA (2013-2017)

4:15 - 4:30 - Break

4:30 - 5:00 p.m. - Wrap session (optional)

5:00 p.m. – Workshop adjourns for the day.

Thursday, October 8

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Again, Eastern Time!) – Why Systemic Racism is Our Biggest Public Health Threat

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Mustafa Santiago Ali

Former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization, U.S. EPA; Vice President of Environmental Justice, Climate, and Community Revitalization, National Wildlife Federation

Abdul El-Sayed

Doctor and author, Healing Politics: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic; former executive director, Detroit Health Department

12:30 - 1:00 p.m. – Break

1:00 - 2:30 p.m. – CLEAN AIR ACT CASE STUDY: Detroit's Push to Shutdown Coal and Clear the Air

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