AGENDA

Welcome

• Ed Seidel, President, University of Wyoming 

• Holly Krutka, Executive Director, School of Energy Resources

• John Koprowski, Dean, Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources

Keynote, Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon

Oil and Gas Law and Policy Update, Alex Obrecht, BakerHostetler

Mining Law and Policy Update, Travis Deti, President of the Wyoming Mining Association

Networking Break sponsored by TBD

Spent Nuclear Fuel Management: From Interim Storage to Permanent Solutions 

Moderator: Tara Righetti 

• Scarlett Forrest, SER Assistant Research Scientist – The Supreme Court’s Decision in Texas v. NRC 

• R. Budd Haemer, Senior Nuclear Council, American Electric Power – Opportunities for Reprocessing Spent Nuclear Fuel 

• Steward Forbes, Columbia Squire - Nuclear Waste Management 

Lunch, sponsor TBD

Salt Creek Energy Scholarship Presentation

 

Gina Guy Keynote on Government Service, former Governor of 

Wyoming, Dave Freudenthal 

 

Networking Break and Lunch Reset sponsored by TBD

Emerging Energy Opportunities in the Intermountain West Moderator, Matt Fry

• Greg Glough, Deputy Director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines –  The Geopolitics of Rare Earth Elements 

• Cindy Delancey, Holland and Hart – Natural Hydrogen Leasing 

• TBD, Western States and Tribal Nations – Low Emission Natural Gas in the Rockies 

• Chris Petrie, Deputy Chair of the Wyoming Public Service Commission – Transmission Development in Wyoming

Networking Break sponsored by TBD

 

Federal Permitting Reform: Law, Policy, and the Shifting Regulatory 

Landscape

Moderator: Maddie Lewis, SER Associate Research Scientist  

• Dessa Reimer – Rewriting NEPA: Legal and Policy Dimensions of Reform Efforts 

• Nada Culver, Nashoba Consulting – Agency Action and Implementation of Federal Permitting Reform

• Pilar Thomas, Quarels & Brady – Federal Permitting Reform in Indian Country

• Ana Gutierrez, Womble Bond & Dickinson – How the Courts are Addressing and Shaping the Future of Federal Permitting

Closing Remarks/Conclusion