On Sept. 22, 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its final rule for a national mandatory greenhouse gas reporting requirement. The rule, which is expected to cover approximately 85 percent of all U.S. GHG emissions from nearly 10,000 facilities, includes many changes from the draft rule. Although the emissions threshold level remains at 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, the source categories covered by the rule have changed. Another key change allows facilities covered under the rule to cease reporting if their emission levels fall under the threshold level for a certain period of time.

Bloomberg BNA, the Association of Climate Change Officers, and The Climate Registry invite you to a presentation on the final rule, with an interactive question-and-answer session and commentary and analyses on the rule, impacts on industry, and next steps for covered entities.

The panel will include:

• Phil Chandler, Head of Subfab and Environmental Products, Applied Materials
• Geraldine E. Edens, Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
• Steve Frenkel, Chief Policy Adviser, Illinois EPA
• Denise Sheehan, Vice President, Government and Regional Affairs, The Climate Registry

During the two-hour presentation, the panelists will:

• Review the final mandatory GHG reporting requirement;
• Highlight differences between the final rule and the proposed rule published earlier this year;
• Identify measures that industry must take to prepare to meet the requirement;
• Discuss the reporting requirement in the context of other recent climate change policy activities (e.g. Kerry-Boxer Senate bill, EPAs recently proposed rule to regulate GHG emissions under the Clean Air Act, and President Obamas executive order to federal agencies); and
• Assess how and if states and regional climate pacts will harmonize their activities with EPAs efforts.

Phil Chandler, Geraldine E. Edens, Steve Frenkel, and Denise Sheehan