AGENDA
October 16th, 2025
Breakfast and Registration Open, sponsor TBD
Welcome
- Holly Krutka, Executive Director, School of Energy Resources
- Temple Stoellinger, Associate Dean, Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and Wyoming Excellence Chair, Co-Director, Gina Guy Center for Land and Water
Trenton Thornock, CEO, Prometheus Hyper Scale
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 Holland & Hart LLP
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 Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley PC
Salt Creek Energy Scholarship Presentation
Gina Guy Keynote on Government Service, former Governor of
Wyoming, Dave Freudenthal
Networking Break and Lunch Reset sponsored by Wyoming Rare (USA) Inc.
Emerging Energy Opportunities in the Intermountain West Moderator, Matt Fry
- Joe Evers - American Rare
- 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 Beatty & Wozniak, P.C.
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
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