How Should Hydraulic Fracturing Be Regulated?
April 19, 2013
Columbia Law School
435 West 116th St. Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104
Agenda I
- 8:30 a.m.-9:25 a.m: Registration and Breakfast
- 9:25 a.m.- 9:30 a.m: Welcome Remarks by David Schizer, Dean of Columbia Law School
- 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m: Introduction: Presentation and Discussion of David Schizer and Tom Merrill's paper "The Shale Oil and Gas Revolution, Hydraulic Fracturing: and Water Contamination: A Regulatory Strategy"
- Panel 1: 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Economic and National Security Implications of Fracking.
- Moderator: Geoff Heal, Columbia University Business School
- Travis Bradford, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
- David Freudenthal, Former Governor of Wyoming
- Jason Bordoff, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
- 11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m: Coffee Break
- Panel 2: 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Risks of Fracking.
- Moderator: Jesse Greene, Columbia Business School
- Charles Stanley, QEP Resources
- Timothy Fitzgerald, Montana State University
- Michael Levi, Council on Foreign Relations
Agenda II
- 1:00 – 2:15 pm: Lunch
- Panel 3: 2:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Regulatory Strategies: Substantive Rules.
- Moderator: Tom Merrill, Columbia Law School
- Hannah Wiseman, Florida State University College of Law
- Chris Kulander, Texas Tech University School of Law
- Mark Brownstein, Environmental Defense Fund
- 3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m: Coffee Break
- Panel 4: 3:30 p.m. -4:30 p.m. Regulatory Strategies: Allocating Responsibility Among Different Levels and Branches of Government.
- Moderator: Michael Gerrard, Columbia Law School
- Mark K. Boling, Southwestern Energy
- Michael Burger, Roger Williams University School of Law
- Deborah Goldberg, Earthjustice