The PA Association of Environmental Professionals will host an October 29 webinar on How Recent Supreme Court Decisions Will Impact Environmental Regulation and Planning starting at Noon.

The US  Supreme Court has issued a number of decisions that are going to have a dramatic impact on environmental law. 

In 2024, the Court’s Loper Bright decision overturned the longstanding doctrine of Chevron deference to agencies on interpretation of statutory terms. 

This webinar will address the elimination of Chevron deference as well as several other key decisions and developments that impact how federal agencies issue regulations and other decisions and how they enforce and defend those actions in court. 

It will also look ahead to two environmental cases on the Supreme Court’s docket later this year that may continue the trend of placing limits on agency authority.

The featured presenter for the webinar is Kerry McGrath from the Washington, DC-based Hunton Andrews Kurth law firm who has 15 years of wide-ranging experience handling novel and complex energy, environmental, and administrative law issues.

She regularly assists applicants in obtaining and defending federal permits and navigating environmental reviews for complicated energy and development projects.

Clients leverage Kerry’s thorough legal analysis to build comprehensive regulatory and compliance strategies tailored to their business objectives.

Kerry is a key member of the law firm’s energy transition team and serves as project counsel for a number of carbon capture and sequestration, new wind and solar generation, and battery storage projects.

She has extensive experience not only advising clients on federal permitting and compliance for linear infrastructure, including oil and gas pipelines and electric transmission lines, but also with federal litigation, including litigation related to administrative rulemakings and defense of major federal environmental permits.

Kerry’s clients derive from a variety of industry sectors, including utilities, mining, oil and gas, renewables, agriculture, consumer products, housing and development, and related trade associations and industry coalitions.

The webinar is free to members of PAEP.  For Non-Members, the fee is $20 per person.

Registrants will be sent an email, closer to the date of the event, providing information on how to join the webinar.

Click Here to register and for more information.

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[Posted: September 23, 2024]

9/30/2024