PRACTICAL PLANNING HORIZONS AND RISK ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

• Jurisdiction: United States

Climate Change Law and Regulations: Planning for a Carbon-Constrained Regulatory Environment
(Jan 2015)
CHAPTER 6C

PRACTICAL PLANNING HORIZONS AND RISK ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Chuck D. Barlow
Vice-President
Environmental Strategy and Policy
Entergy Corporation
New Orleans, Louisiana

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CHUCK D. BARLOW is Vice-President, Environmental Strategy and Policy of Entergy Corporation, a national utility company based in New Orleans. Barlow supports the Entergy national fleet from offices in Jackson, Mississippi and New Orleans. Prior to accepting this position, Barlow acted as Associate General Counsel - Environmental at Entergy. Previously, he worked as General Counsel of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality from 1996 to 2003. From 1990 through May 1996, he was associated with the Jackson office of Phelps Dunbar, L.L.P., where he practiced environmental law and general litigation. From 1989-1990 Barlow clerked for former Chief Judge Charles Clark of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Barlow holds the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in environmental and natural resource law from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1995. In 2007, he was honored with Lewis and Clark's Distinguished Environmental Graduate Award. Barlow received his undergraduate degree from Mississippi College in 1984 with special distinction and high honors, the Master of Arts in English from the University of Virginia in 1986, and his law degree from the Mississippi College School of Law in 1989 (magna cum laude). At Entergy, Barlow has directed the company's participation in several cases of national significance, including Massachusetts v. EPA (where the company filed a Supreme Court amicus brief encouraging the regulation of greenhouse gases by EPA), Entergy v. Riverkeeper (in the Supreme Court, concerning the applicability of cost-benefit analysis under Section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act), North Carolina v. EPA, (in the D.C. Circuit, challenging the fuel adjustment factor included in the Clean Air Interstate Rule), and EME Homer City Generation, L.P. v. EPA (in the D.C. Circuit, challenging aspects of the Cross State Air Pollution Rule). Barlow has completed two terms as a member of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental Justice Advisory Council and as a member of the governing Council of the American Bar Association's...