Amy Edwards is a partner in Holland & Knight's Public Policy & Regulation Group, where she serves as co-chair for the firm's national Environment Team, as well as its Military Installation Redevelopment Team. Amy has been practicing environmental and energy law for more than 25 years. She routinely counsels developers, lenders, and corporations about effective strategies for structuring real estate and corporate transactions to minimize environmental and financial risk. Amy represents local governments, developers, and financial institutions on base closure and privatization of military housing issues. She also represents companies in litigation and enforcement proceedings. Amy has represented her clients on environmental issues associated with real estate, including environmental site assessments, environmental insurance, energy benchmarking, carbon offsets, guaranteed fixed price remediation options, environmental indemnification agreements, cleanup requirements, renewable energy power purchase agreements, vapor intrusion, and cost recovery issues. Amy was an observer/advisor to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws while it developed a model Uniform Environmental Covenants Act. She is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.

Jeffrey Seltzer is the associate director for the Stormwater Management Division at the District Department of Environment (DDOE). In this role, Jeff is responsible for stormwater management planning and implementation efforts to improve the quality of the District’s tributaries and rivers, and ensure compliance with federal stormwater regulatory requirements. Jeff is a professional civil engineer with over twenty years of experience. Prior to joining DDOE, Jeff worked as a program manager for the District Department of Transportation where he was responsible for water quality initiatives and capital projects under the District’s Anacostia Waterfront Initiative. His prior experience also includes serving as the manager of capital projects for the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, a quasi governmental organization in the District of Columbia that was charged with redeveloping lands in a planning area that included over 2000 acres along the Anacostia River.

Brendan Shane is chief of the Office of Policy and Sustainability for the District Department of the Environment, where he oversees issues related to green building, climate change, and cross-cutting urban sustainability. He is a principal staffer for Mayor Vincent Gray’s Sustainable DC initiative, which began in July 2011 and is now in the implementation phase following release of the Sustainable DC Plan in February 2013. In that capacity, he is working across the District government and with stakeholders throughout the community to define and implement the Mayor’s vision of making the District of Columbia the greenest, healthiest, most livable city in the nation. Brendan is a watershed hydrologist and attorney by training, with a bachelors in government from Franklin & Marshall College, a masters in geology from the University of Maryland, and JD from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Harriet Tregoning is the director of the District of Columbia’s Office of Planning, where she works to make the District a walkable, bikeable, eminently livable, globally competitive, and sustainable city. Her priorities include creating and implementing a plan to make D.C. the most sustainable city in the United States, re-writing the city’s zoning code for the first time in 50 years, planning the revitalization of the poorest part of the District as part of the consolidation of the Department of Homeland Security’s headquarters and collaborating with her transportation colleagues to bring additional transportation choices to the District, including the nation’s largest bike-sharing program. Prior to this, Harriet was the director of the Governors’ Institute on Community Design. She also served former Gov. Parris Glendening (D-Md.) as both secretary of planning and then as the nation's first state-level cabinet secretary for smart growth. Harriet was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design for 2003-2004.

Brian Van Wye is chief of the Program Implementation Branch of the Stormwater Management Division in the District of Columbia Department of the Environment (DDOE). Brian is leading the ongoing revision of the District’s stormwater management regulations and manages the development and implementation of programs to reduce stormwater runoff and pollution into District water bodies, including the District’s ban on coal tar pavement products, the bag bill, the stormwater fee discount program, and the stormwater retention credit trading program. Brian also is responsible for administration of roughly $12 million in fee revenue and Clean Water Act funding that supports DDOE, interagency, and non-profit initiatives to improve stormwater management and restore District water bodies to full use for residents, visitors, and businesses. Prior to coming to work for DDOE in 2009, Brian served as Anacostia Riverkeeper. Before that, he represented state clean water programs on behalf of the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators. Brian has also worked in the building industry and as a Peace Corps Volunteer doing agricultural work in sub-Saharan Africa.