EPA initiatives and regulations during the administration of President Obama have imposed or proposed new burdens on industry including coal fired power plants, refineries, oil and gas exploration and production, chemical plants, manufacturing and various other industry categories. The regulatory programs extend from greenhouse gases, acid rain, cross state pollution, ozone, and particulate matter, among others. Industry has responded by filing comments, lobbying, filing lawsuits to challenging rules, and, where that fails, working through new complex regulations, permitting requirements, among other obligations.

In this 90-minute webinar, Rick Faulk and Scott Deatherage, partners at Gardere Wynne Sewell, will explain the technical and regulatory aspects of EPA air emissions regulations and how industry is responding.

This webinar is designed to:

• Review the air emission regulations promulgated, proposed, or presently being considered by the Obama Administration
• Analyze lobbying efforts by companies and industry groups, and attempts to obtain more reasonable results in programs being developed by EPA
• Discuss lawsuits challenging the regulations, and the current status of those cases
• Examine permitting and other obligations companies are currently required to meet and compliance efforts by regulated companies
• Address the greenhouse gas regulation and how that process is going forward in practice
• Provide an overview of financial disclosure obligations resulting from EPA programs
• Describe voluntary efforts by companies to reduce greenhouse gas and other emissions, and voluntary disclosure programs.

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Richard Faulk and Scott Deatherage, Gardere Wynne Sewell

Richard Faulk is a partner with Gardere Wynne Sewell in Houston Texas., where he chairs the firm’s Litigation Department and Environmental Practice Group. Rick also leads Gardere’s Climate Change Task Force. He concentrates his trial and appellate practice on complex environmental litigation, including air and groundwater pollution, public nuisance, class actions, and mass tort cases. He is a board certified appellate specialist who has argued numerous cases before the nation’s state and federal appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Rick is recognized by Chambers and Partners for his work in environmental litigation. He earned his J.D. from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law and his B.M. from the University of North Texas. His law review articles have been honored with William Burton Awards for Legal Achievement at the Library of Congress in 2003, 2009, and 2012, and they have been cited in important judicial decisions, particularly regarding the emerging public nuisance controversies. Rick also is known for his work regarding climate change litigation and the admissibility of scientific evidence, and has served as an invited speaker to the National Academy of Sciences and numerous judicial education programs on those subjects.


Scott Deatherage is a partner with Gardere Wynne Sewell in Dallas, Texas. He advises clients on a variety of environmental, energy, and greenhouse gas regulation issues. His practice focuses on permitting, compliance, administrative law, and judicial litigation on a variety of environmental issues including air emissions, wastewater discharges, hazardous waste, hazardous substances, and toxic substances. Scott represents clients before local, state, and federal environmental agencies, as well as state and federal courts. He has significant experience representing oil and gas, pipeline, refining, marketing of oil and gas, and refined products clients with respect to environmental matters. In particular, he is currently advising power plant developers and other clients in Texas in obtaining traditional air permits from the state and greenhouse gas permits from EPA. Scott earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School where he was the staff editor and articles editor for The Harvard Environmental Law Review; staff and recent developments author, Harvard International Law Journal; and research and writing assistant for Professor Laurence H. Tribe for the Second Edition of American Constitutional Law. Scott received his B.A. in Letters from the University of Oklahoma.