EVENTS

Date:	Friday, July 24, 2009
Time:	10:00 AM -- 11:30 AM
Location:	Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

Speaker biographies

David Doniger is the policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC) climate center, focusing on policies to cut global warming pollution from power plants, motor vehicles, and other major industries. He also leads NRDC's work to complete the phaseout of chemicals that deplete the earth's protective ozone layer. Mr. Doniger rejoined NRDC in 2001 after serving for eight years in the Clinton administration, where he was director of climate change policy at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and, before that, counsel to the head of the EPA's clean air program; he also worked for a year at the Council on Environmental Quality. He first began at NRDC in 1978 and worked on clean air issues for the next fourteen years, helping to win adoption of the landmark Montreal Protocol (to stop depletion of the ozone layer) and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.

Ross Eisenberg is environmental and energy counsel to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Eisenberg is responsible for promoting the Chamber's environmental and energy policies in legislative, regulatory, and other contexts. He is also executive for the Environment and Energy Committee, the Chamber's primary vehicle for the creation and development of environmental and energy policy. Previously, Mr. Eisenberg spent five years as an environmental, energy, and insurance coverage attorney in the Washington, D.C., office of Greenberg Traurig, where he represented large and small companies on a wide range of environmental and energy matters, including permitting and compliance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations; pesticide registration; rights of way and rate-making; environmental insurance coverage; and assorted litigation.

Kenneth P. Green studies public policy with respect to air pollution and climate change, energy and the environment, transportation and the environment, and environmental chemicals as a resident scholar at AEI. His work includes analysis of Canadian environmental policy. He has authored numerous policy studies, newspaper and magazine articles, several encyclopedia entries and book chapters, and a textbook for middle-school students entitled Global Warming: Understanding the Debate (Enslow Publishers, 2002). Mr. Green has worked on both U.S. and Canadian policy, first at California's Reason Foundation, then for nearly three years at British Columbia's Fraser Institute.

Roger Martella is a partner in the Environmental Practice Group at Sidley Austin, where he advises companies on strategic approaches in the context of global climate change, handles environmental and natural resource litigation and mediation, and advises multinational companies on compliance with environmental laws. He recently rejoined Sidley Austin after serving as general counsel to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), concluding ten years of litigating and handling complex environmental and natural resource matters at the Department of Justice and the EPA.

Bruce Nilles joined the Sierra Club in 2002 and currently directs its National Coal Campaign, the largest component of Sierra Club's new Climate Recovery Campaign. The national coal campaign is working to reduce America's reliance on coal, as well as to end destructive mining and secure massive investments in clean energy alternatives. Mr. Nilles previously worked as a staff attorney for Earthjustice's San Francisco office and, during the Clinton administration, as counsel to the assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division.

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