EBC Breakfast Program with MEPA Director Alicia McDevitt

Presented by the Environmental Business Council of New England

WHEN

  • June 25, 2010 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM

WHERE

  • Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag
  • Bay Colony Corporate Center, North Entrance
  • 1000 Winter Street - Suite 4000
  • Waltham, MA 02451
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DESCRIPTION

You are invited to the June EBC breakfast program with Alicia McDevitt, Director of the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Office within the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA).

Through the MEPA office, the Secretary of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs conducts environmental impact reviews of certain projects requiring state agency action. Agency actions include granting state permits or licenses, providing state financial assistance, or transferring state land (see below for more info).

Issues to be addressed by Ms. McDevitt include:

  • New policy announcements 
  • Continued Implementation of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Policy and Protocol 
  • Impact of Global Warming Solutions Act 
  • Massachusetts green building initiatives 
  • eMEPA 
  • Integrated MEPA and Permitting – Super MEPA 
  • and more

Plan to attend this EBC Breakfast program and learn first hand about Director McDevitt's programs, priorities and implementation strategies for the MEPA Office.

Following Ms. McDevitt’s keynote presentation, a panel of experts will address MEPA programs and policies of concern.

Panel Moderator:
Peggy Briggs, Epsilon Associates

Panel Members:
Seth Jaffe, Foley Hoag LLP
Leo Roy, VHB
Barry Fogel, Keegan Werlin, LLP