CHAPTER 7 STATE-BY-STATE OR REGIONAL SOLUTIONS?

• Jurisdiction: United States

Climate Change Law and Regulations: Planning for a Carbon-Constrained Regulatory Environment
(Jan 2015)
CHAPTER 7
STATE-BY-STATE OR REGIONAL SOLUTIONS?
Craig Gannett
Moderator
Co-Chair, Energy and Environmental Practice Group
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Seattle, Washington
Rodney L. Brown
Panelists
Cascadia Law Group
Co-Chair, Carbon Emissions Reduction Taskforce for Washington State
Seattle, Washington
Ken Kimmell
President
Union of Concerned Scientists
Cambridge, Massachusetts
formerly Chairman of the Board, Regional Greenhouse Gas initiative
Michael J. Nasi
Partner
Jackson Walker L.L.P.
Austin, Texas
Quinlan J. Shea, III
Vice President, Environment
Edison Electric Institute
Washington, D.C.

[Page 7-1]

CRAIG GANNETT is Co-Chair of the Energy and Environmental Practice Group at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in Seattle, Washington. He focuses his practice in the fields of electric utility regulation, renewable energy development, and climate change-related regulation. He advises clients on a broad range of regulatory matters, including those relating to hydroelectric dams, wholesale electricity transactions, transmission lines, creation and trading of renewable energy credits, and the impacts of potential changes to the Columbia River Treaty. As a former Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, he advises with respect to the Federal Power Act, the Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Endangered Species Act, as well as EPA climate change regulations under the Clean Air Act. Craig also teaches Climate Change Law at the University of Washington School of Law, and is a Vice-President of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.

RODNEY L. BROWN, JR. is a partner with Cascadia Law Group PLLC in Seattle, Washington. He works on many environmental issues, ranging from pollution control regulations to natural resource management. Rod was the principal author of Washington's Superfund law, and has served on a series of governmental commissions, including those that led to the creation of the state's Growth Management Act and the Regulatory Reform Act. He also served on the state's Climate Action Team and the Blue Ribbon Commission on Transportation. Rod currently co-chairs the Governor's Carbon Emissions Reduction Taskforce.

KEN KIMMELL is the President of the Union of Concerned Scientists, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has more than 30 years of experience in government...