The Public Policy Rationale for Carbon Capture and Storage

Join the GW Energy Law Progam and the GW Alliance for a Sustainable Future for a lecture panel exploring public policy on carbon capture and storage (CCS). Professor Keith Hall will discuss the legal frameworks of CCS, policy considerations, and technological advancements surrounding CCS, a critical technology in the fight against climate change. This event promises to be an invaluable opportunity for policymakers, industry experts, and environmental advocates to engage with cutting-edge developments in CCS and its role in achieving global carbon reduction targets.

, Director of the Energy Law Center; Director of the Mineral Law Institute; Professor of Law, LSU Law

Keith B. Hall is the Nesser Family Chair in Energy Law, Campanile Charities Professor of Energy Law, and John P. Laborde Endowed Professorship in Energy Law 3 and 4. He is also Director of the John P. Laborde Energy Law Center and Director of the Mineral Law Institute. He teaches Mineral Rights, International Petroleum Transactions, Energy Law & Regulation, and Civil Law Property. His publications have focused on oil and gas leases, pooling and unitization, hydraulic fracturing, induced seismicity, and the management of produced water. He is co-author of three books—a national oil and gas casebook that is used in law schools, a book on legal issues relating to hydraulic fracturing that is published by the American Bar Association, and the leading textbook on international petroleum law and transactions. He is a frequent speaker at national and international oil and gas, energy, and environmental law conferences, and is one of the editors on a book on international oil and gas decommissioning regulations. Before joining the LSU Law Center’s faculty, he was a member of the firm Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann in New Orleans, where he practiced law for 16 years, with a focus on oil and gas litigation and transactions, environmental law, and toxic tort litigation.

, President of The Stella Group, Ltd.

Scott Sklar is President of The Stella Group, Ltd. a strategic policy and clean technology optimization firm facilitating clean distributed energy utilization which includes advanced batteries and controls, energy efficiency, fuel cells, geoexchange, heat engines, minigeneration (propane/natural gas), microhydropower (and freeflow, tidal, wave), modular biomass, photovoltaics, small wind, and solar thermal (including daylighting, water heating, industrial preheat, building air-conditioning, and electric power generation). The Stella Group, Ltd. Is one of the very few companies that blends distributed energy & efficiency technologies and energy storage, aggregates financing (including leasing), with a focus on system standardization. Sklar founded the company in 1995 and joined it full time as its President in 2000.

, Managing Director, GW Alliance for a Sustainable Future

Donna Attanasio is the Managing Director of the George Washington University Alliance for a Sustainable Future. She has held the position of Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University Law School since September 2013.

Ms. Attanasio joined the GW Law staff in July 2013. There, she led the energy program and its Sustainable Energy Initiative until November 2023, lastly serving as the Assistant Dean for Energy Law. In that role, she worked in close collaboration with the Assistant Dean for Environmental Law to coordinate and manage the law school’s environmental and energy law program. Ms. Attanasio is an Internal Affiliate of the GW Environmental and Energy Management Institute and on the GW Climate & Health Institute team. Her primary areas of research and writing relate to the electric utility industry and its transition to a more sustainable fuel mix, with a particular emphasis on microgrids, community solar, advanced nuclear technologies, alternative fuels, energy equity and inclusion, and the essential relationship of sustainable, affordable energy to a healthy population and healthy planet.

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