Events

Babst Calland joins the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER) for its 54th Spring Conference, March 26-29, 2025. The Spring Conference brings top practitioners, experts, and thought leaders together for a deep dive into some of the most compelling and timely topics in the field of environment, energy, and resources law.

Environmental Attorney Christina Puhnaty will serve as the moderator for “All the Latest HAPpenings: The Transformation of the Clean Air Act’s Air Toxics Program.” Nearly 35 years after it was strengthened as part of the 1990 Clean Air Act (CAA) amendments, the CAA’s air toxics program is being reshaped and expanded significantly to add unregulated air toxics, remove affirmative defenses, and address environmental justice. In the last four years, the EPA has revised numerous National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for the chemical, power, steel and iron-making, commercial sterilization, and other industrial sectors. The EPA is advancing policy-based rulemakings to add unregulated Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) to the air toxics rules, making it more difficult for sources to reclassify as area (i.e., lower-emitting) sources, and strengthen emissions limitations and work practice standards. Fenceline monitoring and community risk models are being touted to promote environmental justice. Join this panel of “airheads” who are on the front lines of these changes (and several related
lawsuits) to learn how these broad shifts are affecting this critically important CAA program and how businesses and the lawyers they rely on can stay ahead of the curve.

Environmental Attorney Gary Steinbauer also served on the Conference Planning Committee.

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Christina Puhnaty

Gary Steinbauer