Symposium: “Changes to the Regulatory State: President Obama’s Approach to Regulation and its Impacts on Federal Environmental and Health Protections”

On Friday, March 12, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge, the NYU Environmental Law Journal, NYU Environmental Law Society, and Institute for Policy Integrity will host a symposium on regulatory review and environmental regulation under the Obama administration. The administration is in the midst of the most significant regulatory reforms in nearly two decades, with pending revisions to the executive order that governs the regulatory review process and the relationship between agencies and the White House. At the same time, it is also pursuing significant new regulations on a variety of environmental issues, including the nation’s first binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions. The symposium will feature the perspectives of leading academics, regulators, and environmental practitioners on these recent and future changes, with a keynote address by Lisa Heinzerling, EPA’s Associate Administrator for the Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation (OPEI) and the author of several prominent books and articles on environmental and administrative law. For more information and to register, click here.