Following the confirmation of a new Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Environmental Law Institute® will convene an expert symposium at the National Press Club on October 30 on three recent high-level reports on environmental quality trends and conditions.
Principals from each report project will provide insight into their work during a discussion moderated by Marty Spitzer, Professional Staff Member of the House Science Committee. Panelists are U.S. EPA Assistant Administrator and Chief Information Officer Kim Nelson (Draft Report on the Environment), Heinz Center Senior Fellow and Program Director Robin O’Malley (State of the Nation’s Ecosystems), and Frances Seymour, Director of the World Resources Institute’s Program on Institutions and Governance (World Resources 2002-2004).The Chairman of the House Science Subcommittee on Environment, Technology and Standards, Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) will deliver luncheon remarks in response to the morning panel of experts.
Early mixed responses to Congressman Doug Ose’s (R-CA) legislation that would elevate EPA to Cabinet status and create an EPA Bureau of Environmental Statistics richly illustrate the policy implications that flow from the selection and quality of environmental indicators.
ELI’s symposium, Measuring the State of the Environment, will feature moderated discussion of the path followed by each of the report projects, and the indicators used. The reports have provided in-depth accounts of the state of the nation’s environment and, in the case of World Resources, the global environment.
The symposium is supported by a generous grant from the Georgia Pacific Foundation to the Environmental Law Institute.
For more information on the symposium, please contact Erica Pencak at 202-939-3822 or pencak@eli.org.