Key Contacts
Restoration Planning: What Have We Really Learned?
Advanced Conference on Litigating Natural Resource Damages
The Annual Advanced NRD Conference in D.C. is the premier national conference for exploring developments in NRD policy, assessment, enforcement and litigation arising from contaminated sites. As such, this year, we will feature numerous presentations from federal and state policymakers, including an exciting keynote presentation: Steven Cook, U.S. EPA, on federal policy priorities.
You will hear from two panels on federal and state priorities related to NRD claims, featuring senior government officials from the Department of Interior, NOAA, and multiple states. Our conference will also include several other important panels -- featuring leading practitioners in the field -- on such topics as climate change, company perspectives and trial preparation. MGKF's Nicole Moshang will moderate the session on "Restoration Planning: What Have We Really Learned?" at 2:45 on Thursday, April 24.
As in the past, this conference will bring together a diverse, high-level faculty including in-house counsel, government lawyers, private practitioners, and technical experts.
What You Will Learn
- The Second Trump Administration's environmental policy priorities vis-a-vis contaminated sites
- Prospects for specific policy changes at key federal trustee agencies
- State trustee perspectives
- Assessment processes
- Scientific data collection advances
- Use of eDNA and AI in assessment analysis
- New NRDA modeling approaches
- Impact of changing discount rates
- DOI's new Type A assessment approach
- Restoration planning approaches
- Case management strategies
- Climate change and the need for
- Rethinking baseline
- Resilient restoration projects
- State climate Superfund laws
- Lessons from recent NRD litigation
- Legal ethics and NRD
For more information and to register for the program, please visit Law Seminars International.
