environmental industry leadership workshop, 2-day...

MAY 5 - 6, 2015

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ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP, 2-DAY AGENDA WORKSHOP LOCATION BP’s Helios Plaza 201 Helios Way, 2nd Floor Magnus Room (2.240) Houston, TX 77079

MAIN RECEPTION Tuesday, May 5th at 5:15 – 7:30pm Las Ventanas Restaurant & Cantina 14555 Grisby Road Houston, TX 77079

DAY 1 – MAY 5 SESSION THEME: SITE REMEDIATION AND RISK REDUCTION

Time Topic Speakers

7:30 – 8:00 Continental Breakfast in the BP Atrium (directly across from the Workshop’s Magnus room)

8:00 – 8:10 Introduction & Sherman Anti-Trust Review

BP Representative Dr. Ian Webster, President, Project Navigator, Ltd. (PNL)

8:10 – 8:15 Safety Moment BP Representative

8:15 – 9:15 Reviewing the Game Plan: Regulatory Hot Topics & Reducing Risk

C. Scott Fulton, 2009-2013 General Counsel for U.S. EPA, Current Principal at Beveridge & Diamond

9:15 – 9:30 Break

9:30 – 11:30

PANEL: Strategic Risk Management, Cash Flow and Compliance on the Pathway to Closure

Jim Dragna, Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Marc Ferries, PNL John Rosengard, ERCI Dick Schwartz, Vorys Moderator: Dr. Ian Webster, President, PNL

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch

12:30 – 2:30

PANEL: Portfolio Management: Mechanisms to Cost Effectiveness

Elliott Laws, Partner, Crowell & Moring, LLP Ken Tyrrell, Executive VP Oil & Gas, AECOM Vance Fairchild, Founder & Director of G2 Integrated

Solutions (formerly G2 Partners) Steven Birdwell, Founder & Director of Recon and CEO

at GT Logistics LLC Moderator: Marc Ferries, PNL

2:30 – 2:45 Break

2:45 – 4:45

PANEL: Realizing the Importance of Proactive & Dynamic Stakeholder Engagement with a Hostile Public

Roberto Puga, Principal, PNL Bill Shireman, President, Future 500 Dr. Ian Webster, President, PNL Moderator: Mary Koks, Esq., Munsch & Hardt

4:45 – 5:00 Conclusions/Q&A PNL

5:15 – 7:30 Main Reception at Las Ventanas Restaurant & Cantina (14555 Grisby Road)

Please join us for appetizers and cocktails and an opportunity to connect with your peers and the Workshop speakers.

ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP, HOUSTON, TX MAY 5 - 6, 2015

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DAY 2- MAY 6 MORNING THEME: EMERGING ISSUES

Time Topic Speakers

7:30 – 8:15 Continental Breakfast in the BP Atrium (directly across from the Workshop’s Magnus room)

8:15 – 8:30 Introduction & Safety Moment BP Representative

Dr. Ian Webster, President, PNL

8:30 – 9:30 EPA Priorities and Goals John Blevins, Compliance Assurance and

Enforcement Director, EPA Region 6

9:30 – 9:45 Break

9:45 – 11:45

PANEL: Liability Management – Establishing & Implementing Strategies to Minimize Group Risk

Steve Jawetz, Principal, Beveridge & Diamond, PC David Giannotti, David A. Giannotti, LLC Kim Lesniak, Shell Senior Legal Counsel Moderator: John McGahren, Partner, Morgan Lewis

11:45 – 12:45 Lunch

12:45 – 1:45

Energy in the 21st Century Dr. Richard Muller, Professor of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley, Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, President of Muller & Associates LLC

1:45 – 2:00 Break

2:00 – 3:30

PANEL: Long-term Site Management: Where Are We Going? – Sustainable Site Practices

Ken Frank, Regulatory Affairs Manager, Chevron EMC Bob Wenzlau, Terradex Michael Malley, President, IRG Advisors, LLC Dr. Ian Webster, President, PNL

3:30 Conclusions and Wrap Up Roberto Puga, Principal, PNL

Dr. Ian Webster, President, PNL

Please contact Elizabeth Schell (M: 917-494-8423 or [email protected]) with any questions or comments. NOTE The agenda is subject to change as speakers and topics are added via client input.


SPEAKER BIO

Ian A. Webster, Sc.D. President, Project Navigator, Ltd. Dr. Ian A. Webster is President of Project Navigator, Ltd. (PNL), which he formed in 1997, after working at Unocal Corporation on environmental matters for 14 years. Ian's key strengths are in project management, remedial engineering and negotiations. One of his core activities is in working with clients to understand their goals and drivers, then devising both immediate and long-term project strategies, which, at their very heart, are formulated to achieve compliance and save money. Ian spends much internal time assuring that PNL’s commitment to deliver quality, innovative product on schedule, is upheld. He also works to assure that the creative solutions track record that PNL has developed with its clients will be maintained and improved, in parallel to the organization's growth. PNL has especially focused on landfill sites and groundwater issues in the Southwest and Gulf Coast. (For example, PNL is presently working with PG&E and the Hinkley Community on the infamous Cr-6 groundwater plume publicized in the movie “Erin Brockovich.”) Since 2008, PV Navigator, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary, combines PNL’s traditional brownfields and environmental project management and engineering expertise, to develop MW-scale PV facilities on closed landfill sites. Ian has authored, or coauthored, over 30 publications in the field of reaction engineering and environmental site remediation.

Ian is a Scotsman, born and raised in Glasgow. His degrees are all in chemical engineering, successively from the University of Strathclyde, Cornell and MIT. Ian worked for Union Oil Co of California (Unocal), both domestically and overseas for over 15 years, rising to the position of Chief Engineer-Superfund Projects before founding PNL. Ian lives in “solar-attractive” Palm Springs with his wife, 2 boys, 3 dogs and 1 cat.

Education B.Sc., University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland M.S., Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts


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C. Scott Fulton Principal, Beveridge & Diamond PC Scott Fulton served from 2009 to January 2013 as General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where he handled or directed some of the U.S.’s most significant environmental legal matters and represented the U.S. government at international meetings and negotiations. Mr. Fulton uses the rich experience gained from three decades of high-level government service, in both Democratic and Republican administrations, to help solve complex environmental problems for clients and to enable clients to meet their environmental objectives both domestically and abroad. He works on a variety of matters consistent with the breadth of his background, including regulatory development and litigation, policy advocacy, permitting and enforcement under all major environmental statutes; sustainability counselling; and evolving unconventional approaches to environmental protection (e.g., supply chain management and product life cycle requirements, voluntary programs, environmentally preferential purchasing, and reverse logistics). He is actively involved in the firm’s International Practice, and co-leads the firm’s China portfolio. He also serves on key, high-level advisory councils to both the United Nations Environment Program and the Organization of American States. In addition to his service as EPA General Counsel and an Environmental Appeals Judge, Mr. Fulton served in various other roles within EPA, including as Acting Deputy Administrator, the head of the Office of International Affairs, and director of EPA’s enforcement program. He also served as Assistant Chief of the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division. Mr. Fulton was recognized with the two highest awards given by the U.S. government for outstanding leadership – the Presidential Meritorious Executive Service Award, and the Presidential Distinguished Executive Service Award – and has been inducted into the American College of Environmental Lawyers.

Education University of Massachusetts (B.A., Business Management, 1976) University of South Carolina School of Law (J.D., 1982)


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James J. Dragna Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP James J. Dragna represents energy, aerospace, and manufacturing clients in environmental matters nationwide, including air, water, and wastewater enforcement and litigation. His practice includes the representation of water purveyors in water rights cases, including litigation involving Native American water rights, and the resolution of environmental claims in bankruptcy proceedings. Jim also serves as group or common counsel to several multiparty Superfund groups. Jim serves several major municipalities as special counsel in wastewater litigation and permitting issues. Jim’s work includes the negotiation of complex settlement agreements, contribution litigation, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), and the creation of insurance and long-term financial management products to fund long-term remedies. Additionally, Jim currently serves as national coordinating counsel in two major environmental proceedings. The first proceeding involves the legacy environmental liabilities of the former Kerr McGee Corporation, which are being addressed in a bankruptcy proceeding in federal court in New York. The second involves the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico, where Jim represents the minority non-operating investors in the Macondo well in the multidistrict litigation and in admiralty law proceedings in federal court in New Orleans. Prior to entering private practice, Jim served as senior trial counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section in Washington, D.C., where he managed the EPA’s environmental enforcement litigation in Regions IX and X. He is recognized by Chambers USA for the last four years and sources “have great respect” for him. Before joining Morgan Lewis, Jim was a partner and group leader of the environmental, land use, and natural resources practice of another international law firm.

Education Loyola Law School, J.D., 1979 University of California, Irvine, B.A., 1976


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Marcus Ferries Project Manager, Project Navigator, Ltd. Marc Ferries is a Civil/Environmental Professional Engineer with 35 + years of experience. He is a leading authority on environmental remediation, working on impacted sites. His corporate remediation experience involves working with Tenneco/El Paso Energy as Remediation Director and BP America as a Portfolio Manager. Over his career, he has provided project management, design engineering and oversight to over $2 B of diverse remediation liabilities, domestically and internationally. He has implemented innovative treatment options, pursued risk-based site-specific standards, negotiated allocation agreements, and developed environmental reserve and ARO corporate reports to meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. In addition, he has written several articles and conducted presentations regarding, “Managing Remediation Projects as a Business” and “Apply Management Controls on Remediation Liabilities”. He has developed management tools such as Performance Logix Model to quantify, normalize and measure remediation risk reduction, Green Tool to track carbon foot-print on remediation projects, and Cost Savings Data Base to quantify and track consultant’s value-add project achievements. Marc has a B.S. Civil/Geotechnical Engineering, M.S. Environmental Engineering and an MBA.

Education M.B.A. Houston Baptist University, 1998 M.S., Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 1991 B.S., Civil/Geotechnical Engineering, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 1981


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John Rosengard President, ERCI John Rosengard is president of ERCI of Oakland, CA. For 21 years, John and his team have helped companies and public agencies price and document their environmental liabilities. ERCI’s principal product is the Defender software program, which has been adopted by fifteen remediation teams for quantifying liabilities and setting budgets. John has been published on environmental liability disclosure, decision analysis, Monte Carlo modeling, fair value measurement, software development and counterparty default risk. He has an MBA from Northwestern and a BS from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Education M.B.A., Northwestern University, Illinois B.S., Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.


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Richard A. Schwartz Partner, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP Dick is a partner in the Vorys Houston office and a member of the litigation group. He has tried over 60 cases in many forums in the United States. Over the past 34 years working as a successful trial lawyer, Dick has gained extensive knowledge regarding the business of oil and gas exploration, production, and refining. He has investigated and handled significant matters arising from refinery fires and explosions and well control events at drilling locations. Dick has taken industry courses in refining, refinery economics, and well control and holds the IADC certification for well control at the supervisor level. In addition to his complex commercial trial practice, Dick has a significant environmental law practice. He counsels clients and handles cases regarding contamination from legacy oil field production, industrial and refining operations. For example, he has been lead counsel for numerous parties in the Tex Tin Superfund Site litigation and in a dispute between major oil companies over legacy oil field operations in Louisiana. Dick is committed to finding prompt and cost effective solutions to the client's problems. He is known for his ability to understand complex matters, identify the key questions and issues, and develop, execute, and assess strategies to accomplish the client's goals. During his career, Dick has held several leadership positions in the Federal Bar Association’s South Texas Chapter including serving as the Chapter’s president, treasurer, secretary and national delegate. He is also a member of numerous other professional organizations. Dick has been a member of the Garland Walker Inn of Court since 1987, and serves on its board. He was the executive director for 9 years. Additionally, Dick is the Fifth Circuit Trustee on the National Inns of Court Foundation. He is a fellow of the Houston Bar Foundation and Texas Bar Foundation. He was chairman and member of the District 4J State Bar of Texas Grievance Committee. Dick has authored and lectured at numerous legal education programs. He has written papers and given lectures on such subjects as expert discovery, corporate investigations, legal privileges, and ethics.

Education University of Houston Law Center, J.D., 1979 University of Texas, B.A., 1975


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Elliott P. Laws Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP Elliott Laws is Administrative Trustee of RACER Trust, the largest environmental remediation trust in U.S. history, and a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Crowell & Moring, where he practices in the firm's Government Affairs and Environment & Natural Resources groups. As Administrative Trustee of RACER, Elliott oversees all aspects of the Trust, which manages remediation and marketing of former General Motors properties at 89 locations in 14 states. Elliott has served as Trustee since RACER was formed by order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in 2011. At Crowell & Moring, he provides strategic counseling and legal, policy and crisis management advice on environmental and energy policy issues, regulation and litigation; addressing Superfund and hazardous wastes; brownfields redevelopment; environmental remediation; chemical regulation; clean air; and clean water. Elliott is frequently sought for advice regarding site-specific as well as general issues faced by major corporations in the environmental regulatory and policy areas. With his deep environmental experience, he is able to help guide these clients through complex negotiations and development of innovative resolutions at the highest levels of the federal government. Elliott formerly served as President of Safety, Health and Environment for Texaco Inc. While at Texaco, Elliott was responsible for the development and oversight of worldwide environmental and safety policies and positions, including those related to climate change, sustainability, environmental management systems, and corporate audit and responsibility programs supporting the underlying strategic and business objectives of the corporation. Elliott also was principal advisor to the CEO and other senior corporate officials on environmental policy matters. As Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, he was responsible for regulatory and policy development and implementation for solid and hazardous waste management.

Education St. John's University, B.A. (1977) Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. (1980)


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Ken Tyrrell Executive Vice President Oil & Gas, AECOM Mr. Tyrrell has been with AECOM and its heritage companies since 1990. He resides in Houston, Texas and serves as the Executive Vice President for AECOM’s Oil, Gas and Chemicals business line. In this role Ken oversees service delivery to a wide range of clients and client portfolios across a broad geographic reach extending from Alaska to Argentina. Ken has led the AECOM efforts in large permitting projects such as the pipeline across Alaska and the permitting of projects on the North Slope of Alaska and other large projects. In the past his technical focus has been on environmental remediation with a particular interest in the effects of accounting standards and disclosure of environmental liabilities. Previously, Mr. Tyrrell managed the Environmental Department in Houston, Texas where he managed 100 technical staff. Mr. Tyrrell co-chaired the TCEQ Remedy Standards task force which developed guidance documents related to the Texas Risk Reduction Program. As a volunteer, he chaired the RCRA Task Force for the National Ground Water Association and led the NGWA’s advocacy efforts in Washington, DC about issuing pertaining to MTBE.

Education Geology, B.A., Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, 1981


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Vance Fairchild Strategic Advisor and Corporate Board Director, G2 Partners Mr. Fairchild serves as G2’s Strategic Advisor and a Corporate Board Director. Prior to this recent transition, he was the founder and CEO of G2, leading the company’s strategic growth, developing new business sectors and diversifying clientele, managing strategic consulting projects, and driving the rapid revenue and EBITDA growth. Mr. Fairchild also serves as the Managing Principle in charge of brownfields redevelopment projects on the west coast, and developing a wetlands bank and ecological enhancement project in southeast Texas. Mr. Fairchild began his career in the industry working in environmental risk management for a large mid-stream energy company. He then transitioned to professional services, serving as President of an environmental and engineering consulting company. He has worked on permitting /constructing capital pipeline and compression projects, managing soil, sediments, surfaces, and groundwater remediation at fixed facilities, and on the operational and emergency response of pipeline disruptions. Mr. Fairchild has extensive experience in the acquisition of environmentally-impaired industrial real estate, fully liquidated liability assumption, cost-effective mitigation, land re-entitlement, and profitable monetization of the real property for highest and best use, including creative, ecological, and beneficial reuse. Mr. Fairchild is successful in differentiating projects and properties’ success by setting a ‘green vision’ for the collective benefit of sellers, buyers, and developers. In 1998, Mr. Fairchild founded and managed ECON Capital, L.P. There, he built a successful energy M&A consulting business into a publicly traded company, originating and managing multiple limited partnerships focused on purchasing, redeveloping, and/or repositioning Brownfields, before selling the company in 2001, only 40 months after start-up. Prior to that, Mr. Fairchild served as President / CEO of a $10MM+ per year regional environmental consulting and engineering firm. After starting a Houston office, he quickly grew the office to 50+ employees, was promoted to President, expanded to other cities, and in only two years from starting went public as part of a several company roll-up IPO.

Education MBA Civil & Environmental Engineering, Graduated with Honors, Texas A&M University


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Steven Birdwell Founder & Director of RECON and CEO at GT Logistics LLC Steven Birdwell is the Founder and a director of Recon Services, L.P. (RECON), an environmental and geotechnical construction company, and is the Owner and CEO of GT Logistics, LLC. Both are headquartered in Houston, TX. In 1989, Steven founded RECON to meet the growing demand for specialized construction services created by new regulation. Steven leveraged his experience in geological engineer and his practical knowledge of geotechnical construction techniques to create a value-added environmental and geotechnical services construction company. RECON has become a national leader in the field of environmental remediation services, including chemical, biological, thermal and physical treatment of soil, sludge, groundwater and facilities. With 500 employees, RECON has performed over $1 billion in remediation projects worldwide and is recognized as one of the top Hazardous Waste Remediation Specialty Contractors by Engineering News Record. In 2009, Steven founded GT Logistics LLC and Golden Triangle Properties, LLC. These two companies leverage the growing need for realignment of the US energy infrastructure, while dealing with the reality that the prime locations for this infrastructure have been impaired from previous industrial activities. Since inception, GTL has acquired over 1,100 acres of heavy industrial real estate, and developed energy infrastructure including rail, barge docks, ship docks, and pipelines. GTL’s supplies transloading services for crude and finished products for some of the largest petrochemical facilities in the US.

Education B. S., Engineering Geology -Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 1986 M.S., Geological Engineering - University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri, 1987


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Roberto Puga, R.G. Principal, Project Navigator, Ltd. Roberto has been working in the environmental consulting business for over 25 years. After earning a degree in Geophysics (UC Santa Barbara, 1976), he began his career at Environmental Solutions, Inc., later known as TRC. In 1998 he joined Dr. Ian Webster as a partner in Project Navigator, Ltd. Roberto's project experience covers a very wide range of environmental consulting: Planning and implementation of remedial investigations and feasibility

studies Remedial action implementation PRP group coordination and management Regulatory agency negotiation and day to day interaction Custodial trust management

He has worked on environmental projects all over the Western and Southern United States. He has earned an outstanding reputation in the industry as a conscientious and forward thinking scientist, administrator and strategist.

Education B.S., Geophsyics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988


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Bill Shireman President & CEO, Future 500 As President and CEO of Future 500, Shireman helps the world’s largest companies and most impassioned activists – from Coca-Cola, General Motors, Nike, Mitsubishi, and Weyerhaeuser, to Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, Oxfam, and the Sierra Club – stop battling each other, and find common ground. Breaking through the traditional left-right divide, Shireman’s books and studies prove that we can protect the earth, promote freedom, and increase prosperity at the same time – if the raging ideologues on both the right and the left would just open their eyes and minds. Called a “master of environmental entrepreneurism,” Shireman brings together forces that love to hate and demonize each other: Republicans and Democrats, Rush Limbaugh conservatives and Michael Moore progressives, and above all, giant global corporations and the activists that distrust and demonize them. Shireman united Coors, Safeway and the Sierra Club to design and pass California’s “bottle bill” recycling law, the lowest-cost and most effective in the nation. He united Mitsubishi and Rainforest Action Network (RAN) to work together to save rainforests from North America to Malaysia. He brought together Coca-Cola and Genocide Intervention Network to help promote peace in the Sudan. Now he is helping unite the interests of Charles Koch climate skeptics and Al Gore climate activists. We don’t need to sacrifice freedom or prosperity to protect the planet, Shireman believes. In fact, the BEST pro-climate policies would cut taxes, end subsidies, and reduce the control that big government and corporations have on our lives. Shireman’s most recent books include Innovation Nation, Engaging Outraged Stakeholders, and What the GOP Can Learn from Nike. In 2002, with former Mitsubishi CEO Tachi Kiuchi, he wrote his most influential book to date, What We Learned In The Rainforest — Business Lessons from Nature, featured in the Harvard Business Review, which declares the business-as-machine era over, and shows how companies can become as innovative as the rainforest, leveraging feedback to grow more profitable and sustainable than ever.

Education University of Massachusetts (B.A., Business Management, 1976) University of South Carolina School of Law (J.D., 1982)


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Mary W. Koks Shareholder, Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. Mary has more than 26 years of experience in a practice focusing on environmental compliance and litigation. Her experience includes:

Representation of potentially responsible parties and landowners in environmental lawsuits including bankruptcy matters, toxic tort, property claims and suits brought under various environmental acts including Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Oil Pollution Act (OPA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Clean Air Act (CAA) and comparable state statutes.

Representation of clients in administrative and civil enforcement cases before the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH).

Assisting and advising clients on environmental issues in real estate

related transactions, corporate acquisitions and mergers, insurance claims as well as regulatory compliance, supervision of environmental compliance audits and the Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) plans.

Education Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law Master of Arts in Government from University of South Carolina Master of Law in Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Law from University of Houston Law Center Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from University of South Carolina


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John Blevins Director of the Compliance Assurance and Enforcement Division, US EPA Region 6 John Blevins is the Director of the Compliance Assurance and Enforcement Division (CAED), where he manages over 135 employees, whose mission is to protect and sustain human health and the environment by ensuring compliance with Federal environmental laws in partnership with States and Tribes. He has been with EPA Region 6 for 10 years. John has had a great deal of experience working in State programs. Prior to his appointment as the Director of CAED in Region 6, John was the Director of the Air and Waste Management Division for the State of Delaware and he worked as a Regional Cleanup Manager, under an IPA assignment, with the State of Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality. He has also worked in two other EPA Regions, EPA Region 9 (San Francisco) in the Superfund Division as a first line supervisor, and in Region 4 (Atlanta) as a project engineer in the federal facilities program. John has a Bachelor of Arts degree in environmental studies from Warren Wilson College (Swannanoa, North Carolina and a master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. John’s greatest accomplishment is being the father of triplet daughters, who are sixteen years old and entering their junior year of high school.

Education M.S., Civil Engineering, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC B.A., Environmental Studies, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC


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Steven M. Jawetz Principal, Beveridge & Diamond PC Steven M. Jawetz is a Principal in the Washington, D.C. office of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. His practice focuses on remediation and natural resource damages (NRD) matters under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund) and similar state statutes imposing liability for hazardous substance releases. He also regularly addresses PCB cleanup issues under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Mr. Jawetz represents clients at a number of nationally significant contaminated sediment sites in rivers, lakes, and estuaries across the country. He also represents clients at numerous sites involving hazardous substances in soil and groundwater. In addition to his work for individual parties, Mr. Jawetz acts as common counsel to groups of potentially responsible parties at several sites. Mr. Jawetz has substantial experience not only with EPA and state response agency negotiations and agreements, but also with cooperative NRD assessments and negotiations with federal and state natural resource trustees. His work focuses on helping clients proactively prepare for, and then cost-effectively address, government claims for response action, response costs, and NRD. Before joining the firm in 1987, Mr. Jawetz was with the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked closely with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on CERCLA reauthorization. Prior to his work at the Justice Department, he clerked for the Nevada Supreme Court.

Education Stanford University (B.A., Program in Human Biology, with distinction; Phi Beta Kappa, 1978) University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Public Policy (M.P.P., 1982) University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law (J.D., 1982)


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David A. Giannotti, Esq. David A. Giannotti Mr. Giannotti has more than 30 years of extensive environmental law experience, covering air, water, toxic substances, Superfund, and hazardous waste issues ranging from compliance to litigation. Mr. Giannotti also has extensive experience in due diligence investigations as well as developing and implementing environmental auditing programs for clients. Mr. Giannotti's experience was gained during a career that began in private practice and included almost ten years as an environmental attorney with Occidental Petroleum Corporation. During his last three and a half years at Occidental, he was Counsel - Environmental, Health & Safety, with responsibility for the company's worldwide operations. He also served as counsel to Occidental's Board of Directors' Environmental Committee. Before joining Occidental's headquarters staff, he spent six years in its chemical division as its environmental attorney. Mr. Giannotti has extensive experience dealing with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), California and numerous other state environmental agencies, and has been involved with environmental matters across the country. His practice has included enforcement and litigation actions, dealing with complex technical matters and damages issues. He has retained and managed environmental and technical consultants and experts and has acted as lead attorney in multi-party administrative and litigation proceedings. EDUCATION Ithaca College (B.A., 1969); Emory University (J.D., 1971). Admitted to bar, 1972, Georgia and Tennessee; 1976, New York; 1981, California.

Education Ithaca College (B.A., 1969) Emory University (J.D., 1971) Admitted to bar, 1972, Georgia and Tennessee; 1976, New York; 1981, California.


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Kim Lesniak Senior Legal Counsel, Shell Oil Company Kim Lesniak is a Senior Legal Counsel in the Downstream Legal group at Shell Oil Company in Houston. Kim supports two of Shell’s US refineries on regulatory compliance issues and is a member of the Shell Americas Response Team. She also provides legal advice on liability and remediation issues involving divested properties and third party sites, and represents the company at numerous multi-party remediation sites and in negotiations with state and federal regulatory agencies. Kim was part of the team that pursued judicial appeals establishing new law on “arranger” liability under CERCLA in the Burlington Northern Supreme Court case. Kim joined Shell in 2007 after working in-house at El Paso Corporation and having also worked for several years as an environmental attorney at Vinson & Elkins LLP. Kim has a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental science from the College of William & Mary and earned her J.D. at University of Virginia School of Law.

Education B.S, Environmental Science, University of Virginia School of Law


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John McGahren Partner, Morgan Lewis John McGahren is the Princeton litigation practice leader and deputy chair of the firm’s global environmental practice. John counsels clients on litigation, enforcement, and transactional matters. He prosecutes and defends citizen suits, Superfund and RCRA disputes, Clean Water and Air Act litigation, state law actions, and natural resource damage claims. He represents clients in commercial litigation, products liability, toxic tort, and government contract claims. John frequently provides counsel on US federal and state regulatory matters and investigations. John serves as a federal mediator for the District of New Jersey and as a state mediator for the New Jersey Supreme Court Civil Mediation Program. As part of his volunteer work, he has been a member of the board of directors of NJ Law and Education Empowerment Project, which empowers urban youth from underserved neighborhoods to perform at high academic levels. Before practicing law, John was a licensed professional engineer in the US Environmental Protection Agency Region II Superfund program, working on sites in New York, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico.

Education New York Law School, 1990, J.D. Manhattan College, 1986, M.S., Magna Cum Laude Manhattan College, 1986, B.S., Magna Cum Laude


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Richard A. Muller Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley Professor of Physics at U. Calif. Berkeley. Experimental and theoretical physics, geophysics and engineering. Founded experimental programs that led to the discovery of dark energy and the non-uniformity of Big Bang; these led to Nobel Prizes for the scientists (Perlmutter, Smoot) he hired to complete the development of the two programs. Shared the 2014 Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics, with Perlmutter and others, “For the most unexpected discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, rather than slowing as had been long assumed.” Muller’s research site is www.muller.LBL.gov. Co-founded (with daughter Elizabeth Muller) Berkeley Earth, a non-profit that did an independent (non-government) assessment of global warming. Now working on warming, other climate issues, evaluation of solutions, and assessment of air pollution in China. See www.BerkeleyEarth.org. Invented the technique known as “Accelerator Mass Spectrometry”, now the predominant method used for radiocarbon dating; also widely used in medicine. Co-founded Berkeley Earth, which led to seminal analysis of global warming and air pollution. Serves on the Board of the Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley Earth, formerly on board of Jason Consulting Group on US security, consultant to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; scientific advisory board of the National Ignition Facility (controlled thermonuclear fusion); consultant to many venture capital and private equity groups. Over 100 publications spanning energy, applied physics, particle physics, astrophysics. Wrote advanced text on mathematical analysis of paleoclimate; wrote textbook and 6 popular books, including bestselling “Physics for Future Presidents” based on the course he created at the University of California at Berkeley. Other books include “Nemesis”, “Glacial Cycles”, “The Three Big Bangs”, “The Instant Physicist”, “Energy for Future Presidents”. Married to Rosemary Muller for 48 years; two grandchildren (so far).

Education A.B., Columbia University, New York, 1964 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Physics, 1969


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Ken L. Frank, M.S. Regulatory Affairs Manager, Chevron EMC Ken is the Regulatory Affairs Manager for Chevron Environmental Management Company. In this role, Ken works with Chevron Corporation’s Government Affairs Managers to develop and implement the regulatory advocacy efforts of CEMC. He also represents CEMC with industry associations and coalitions focused on the development of remediation practices in the US. Ken also assists CEMC project managers with regulatory negotiations when they encounter agency disputes or the inconsistent application of policy. Over the past year, Ken has been leading a CEMC team that is looking at the value of incorporating Sustainable Remediation Practices into the remedial decisions at CEMC remediation sites. Ken began his Chevron career with upstream assignments in natural gas production, first as an operations assistant at the Carter Creek Gas Plant in Evanston, Wyoming and then as a Supply and Sales Coordinator for natural gas from the Rocky Mountains and California in San Ramon, California. In 1991, Ken began his environmental career in Chevron’s Superfund Team, where he helped establish the processes and strategies for reducing the environmental liabilities presented by these complex sites. During the next 10 years, Ken managed Chevron’s liability at many complex sites, including PAB Oil, Tex-Tin, Sparks Solvent/Fuel Site, Casmalia, and Portland Harbor. In 2001, he joined Chevron’s Government Affairs organization as a Senior Environmental Policy Analyst, where he continued to work on environmental waste and remediation issues until he joined CEMC in his current role in March of 2006.

Education M.S., Environmental Management, University of San Francisco, 1998 Chemistry, Eastern Montana College

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Bob Wenzlau CEO, Terradex, Inc. Bob Wenzlau is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Terradex, Inc. Terradex (www.terradex.com) monitors land use around contaminated properties, and then alerts before unsafe land uses occur. Mr. Wenzlau founded Terradex in 2002 after 25 year environmental practice within government, industry and consulting. Mr. Wenzlau chaired the ASTM Task Group for Continuing Obligations, a standard for landowner obligations after the purchase of a contaminated property, and now chairs a new task group to standardize presentation of groundwater plumes. Mr. Wenzlau crafted an Institutional Control data standard now applied within federal-state Environmental Exchange. He participates in numerous working groups to build industry/regulatory practices for land stewardship. He holds a patent for business processes related to land stewardship. He is a Registered Civil Engineer holding a Master and Bachelors in Civil Engineering from Stanford University. Terradex now has over 10,000 sites under one form of environmental monitoring on behalf of state and private clients.

Education M.S. & B.S, Civil Engineering, Stanford University


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Michael Malley President, IRG Advisors LLC Michael Malley is a real estate and environmental management professional with over 30 years’ experience in the acquisition, financing, risk management, and redevelopment of environmentally impaired real estate assets. His experience and expertise includes financial modelling, asset divestiture and transaction analysis, liability and asset quantification, risk management and asset disposition and reuse analysis. Mr. Malley is President of IRG Advisors, a management consulting firm and advisor on business strategy for managing surplus and legacy real estate assets. In this role he leads the firm’s advisory practice, consulting with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors providing business strategies to manage and dispose of surplus and environmentally impaired real estate assets. Mr. Malley has assisted clients in managing surplus and impaired real estate assets with combined liability, restructuring and disposition costs in excess of $1.5 billion, identifying disposition, divestiture and reuse strategies resulting in asset value creation and cost reduction of over $250 million. Mr. Malley was co-founder and Executive Vice President of a successful brownfield investment and redevelopment company, responsible for acquisition and redevelopment of environmentally impaired real estate assets throughout the United States with development value in excess of $500 million. He served as Chief Risk Officer managing the company’s environmental risk management program, successfully managing the company’s financial and performance obligations for environmental liabilities valued at over $100 million.

Education M.S. Geochemistry Colorado school of Mines - 1984 B.A. Geology and Chemistry Bridgewater State University - 1981

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