Maggie is a partner at Marten Law Group with over 14 years of experience representing clients in all aspects of environmental law. She focuses her practice on air quality, waste management, and water quality issues, assisting clients with their environmental regulatory compliance issues. She also defends clients against environmental enforcement actions and coordinates and conducts environmental audits and due diligence.
Maggie worked for Mobil and law firms in Los Angeles after her graduation from the University of Texas Law School before moving to Seattle.
She is currently serving on the Leadership Team for the Northwest Collaborative Air Priorities Project, which is organizing as an NGO to promote the priorities agreed at the 2003 meeting. She is also a Board Member of the Puget Sound Chapter of Air and Waste Management Association
MICHAEL G. LUFKIN
Mike's practice focuses on environmental and natural resource litigation. Before joining Marten Law Group, Mike spent six years with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. As an Assistant Attorney General, Mike most recently served as Counsel for the Environment in proceedings before the Washington State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council. In this role, Mike was charged with representing the public’s interest in protecting the quality of the environment in the siting of large energy facilities. Mike has also represented the Washington State Departments of Agriculture,
Health, and Fish and Wildlife. In his representation of these state
agencies, Mike has been involved with a broad array of environmental litigation involving water quality, growth management, pesticide use and regulation, endangered species, Tribal hunting and fishing, shellfish sanitation, natural resource damages, safe drinking water, SEPA, and NEPA.
Mike graduated from the Loyola University Chicago School of Law
MICHAEL S. ASHFORD
Mr. Ashford has spent the past 10 years working for private and non-profit enterprises engaged in issues of energy and the environment. In his current position as Deputy Director for The Climate Trust, his primary task is to increase the use of the Climate Trust’s model for securing measurable, permanent and high-quality greenhouse gas emission offsets around the country. The Climate Trust model builds on the Oregon Offset Program, the state’s environmental policy regarding limits on GHG emissions from new power plants in that state. Before joining The Climate Trust in 2001, Mr. Ashford was a Vice President and Director of D.C. Operations for the business consulting firm Econergy International Corporation.
RON EZEKIEL
Ron Ezekiel is a partner in Fasken Martineau’s Vancouver office. Fasken Martineau is one of Canada’s biggest national law firms.
Ron has been dealing with climate change related legal work since 1997. Working with a variety of clients, and developing strategy from a number of different perspectives, Ron has developed extensive expertise in climate change policy and emissions trading transactional work. Ron has provided policy advice to government, negotiated both domestic and international emissions trading transactions involving both emission reductions and carbon sinks. Ron is legal counsel to GEMCo, a consortium of Canadian energy companies and utilities, and one of the biggest private sector greenhouse gas offset buyers in the world.
Ron graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto in 1994.
ROBERT MURRAY
Mr. Murray holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Rice University, and has pursued two plus years of advanced graduate study in environmental and system science.
Early-on, he pursued a career in the aerospace industry, specializing in developing computer-aided analysis and design tools for the missile intelligence, aerospace, and defense electronics industries.
Later, he coordinated the Oregon Energy Study for Gov. McCall, summarizing the state’s energy sources and uses, and developing a 50-year transition scenario to an all-renewable energy system for Oregon.
He was the architect of the first regional study (for BPA) that treated electrical energy efficiency programs as quantifiable resources, superior in cost and speed, and comparable in energy delivered, to traditional generation options. He expanded the scope under NRDC sponsorship, to include all fuels. Mr. Murray then provided electricity demand and supply scenarios for the US GAO Policy Audits of the BPA and the WAPA, respectively.
His technical background, and participation in numerous energy technical and policy studies lead to his selection as Superintendent of Seattle City Light in 1979-80.
Subsequently, for small and medium scale business clients he provided energy systems analyses, financial analysis and planning, and information system design. For The Boeing Company he provided training in AI and information system development, plus business process modeling and re-engineering.
Now he is returning from retirement to join other “catalysts” for the transition to a sustainable world, emphasizing innovative, aggressive, integrated, practical renewable energy commercialization initiatives.
DWAYNE BREGER
Dwayne Breger is the Manager of the Renewable Energy and Climate Change
Group at the Massachusetts Division of Energy Resources. DOER implements energy policies that ensure an adequate supply of reliable, affordable and clean energy for the businesses and residents of Massachusetts. His group is responsible for the implementation of the state's Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard and the division's contributions to the newly released Massachusetts Climate Protection Plan.
Dwayne is a member of the Staff Working Group of the Northeast Regional
Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and is leading the subgroup concerned with
modeling the economic impacts of the cap-and-trade program.
Prior to his position at DOER, Dwayne served as a member of the faculty of Lafayette College, as a research associate at UMass Amherst, and as a U.S. participant in the International Energy Agency. He also held a fellowship with the Climate Policy and Programs Division of the U.S. EPA to model renewable energy technological change and market penetration within the context of climate policy.
He holds a BS in Engineering from Swarthmore College, an MS in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Resource Economics from UMass Amherst.
MICHAEL LAZARUS
Michael Lazarus telecommutes from Seattle to the Tellus Institute office in Boston [a GHG project for which he is willing to sell offsets at $3 a ton CO2]. He works on a wide range of energy and climate policy issues, currently including:
* technical analysis and coordination for the Puget Sound Clean Air
Agency's Climate Protection Advisory committee
* support for the Energy Foundation and West Coast Governor's Global
Warming Initiative
* member of the Methodology Panel for the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol
After 15 years of working on energy and development issues in two dozen countries, he's come to the conclusion that the hardest (and most important) work is done at home.
MARC SCHULDT
Marc Schuldt is a principal at SBW Consulting, Inc. in Bellevue, Washington. He has been in this position since the firm began in 1990. He is a mechanical engineer who has specialized in energy efficiency and water efficiency for more than 25 years, since receiving his Master’s degreefrom the University of Washington. He directs a staff of 13 to complete engineering oriented projects that serve SBW’s clients, which include numerous utilities, government agencies and research organizations along the West Coast. The firm is currently very active with the administration, implementation and evaluation of several utility programs in Washington and California.
LAURA MORK
I went to the University of Washington with a desire to do my part to
improve the environment. Obtained a degree in Chemical Engineering, and went to work in the Steel industry. With some relatively minor investments was able to save $1.2M dollars of natural gas consumption by the 3rd year I worked there. This set me on the energy conservation path, that I'm still following. I've worked in a variety of industries from Steel to pharmacueticals and biotech, and now in Aviation. I've never worked in a place where there is not energy that can be saved, it is just a matter of knowing how to look for it.
DAVE NEWMAN
Dave Newman is the Global manager of Sustainable Logistics for Nike, Inc.
Dave has managed Nike’s sustainable logistics program since 1999 and led the efforts to develop the company’s first emissions footprint from global logistics.
Dave is currently serving on the Advisory Board for Oregon Environmental Council and also is serving on the sustainable choices committee for the Oregon Transportation Plan.
MARGARET BRUCE
Margaret Bruce is the Envionmental Programs Director for the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group, a business association founded 25 years ago by David Packard of Hewlett-Packard to address quality of life and business vitality policy issues in Silicon Valley. SVMG represents ~190 member companies in a wide variety of business sectors. As SVMG Environmental Programs Director, Margaret represents SVMG companies to local and state environmental agencies, policy-makers and stakeholder groups. In addition to her policy experience, Margaret has a background in environmental program management in high tech manufacturing and government research facilities. When not engaged in her work, Margaret can be found out-of-doors, raising kids, vegetables and a ruckus in the small town of Boulder Creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
VIRINDER SINGH
Virinder Singh is Environmental Policy Analyst at PacifiCorp, a power utility that serves over 2 million customers in 6 states, including Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Virinder works on a variety of issues, including legislative and regulatory issues related to renewable energy and climate change, internal resource planning, retail products focusing on renewable energy, grantmaking to local environmental efforts, and corporate environmental governance. Before joining PacifiCorp, he was a Research Director at the Renewable Energy Policy Project, a Washington DC-based non-profit. He holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University.
Lisa Nelowet Grice is CH2M HILL's Director of GHG Management Services, and a nationally recognized expert in GHG management. She has advised the U.S. EPA, the California Climate Action Registry, and numerous private sector clients such as Starbucks, 3M, Suncor, and SC Johnson on methods for accurately accounting for and managing GHG emissions. She is actively involved in monitoring climate change issues and implementing GHG management programs for clients worldwide.
ROEL HAMMERSCHLAG
Roel Hammerschlag is the executive director of ILEA, the Institute for Lifecycle Environmental Assessment. ILEA specializes in interpreting academic life-cycle assessment research for the general public, assisting consumers with well-informed, everyday decisionmaking. Mr. Hammerschlag is a co-recipient, together with Patrick Mazza, of a MacArthur Foundation Global Security and Sustainability Research and Writing Grant, to critically assess the impacts of the proposed hydrogen economy. He also provides technical assistance on greenhouse gas policy and emissions accounting to clients like the Natural Resources Defense Council, Tellus Institute, the Washington State Attorney General's office, Seattle City Light, and many others. Mr. Hammerschlag holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
TIM NEWCOMB
Tim has filled a variety of roles in electricity conservation and greenhouse gas analysis over the past 25 years, all in the Seattle vicinity.
He spent ten years doing conservation evaluation work for Seattle City Light and Puget Sound Energy. Then about ten years doing industrial electricity conservation for Seattle City Light. The last eight years have been a combination of electricity conservation, greenhouse gas inventories, and articles about greenhouse gas emissions calculation approaches.
MIKE RUBY
Mike Ruby is the President and Director of Engineering of Envirometrics, Inc., a Seattle consulting engineering firm specializing in air pollution control.
Dr. Ruby received his engineering degrees from the University of Oklahoma and the University of Washington. He is a Professional Engineer and is currently serving as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Visitors of the University of Oklahoma College of Engineering. Dr. Ruby’s professional training and experience also includes natural resource economics. He is a co-author of the text Benefit-Cost Analysis of Air-Pollution Control.
Prior to joining Envirometrics in 1984, Mike was a professor in the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Earlier he worked as the first environmental specialist for the City of Seattle. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency and has been a consultant to the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program.
JUSTIN WETTSTEIN
Justin Wettstein received his B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering and Science from Stanford University. He's currently working on a PhD in long-term climate dynamics at the University of Washington, focusing on how natural and human forcings are imprinted on structural modes of climate variability. He's also concurrently pursuing a policy analysis masters in the Evans School of Public Affairs at the UW.
Justin has worked for several engineering firms, the US Global Change Research Program in Washington, DC and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. Today, he'll be talking about the greenhouse gas inventory he helped complete while working for King County.
KIM DRURY
Kim is a senior staff person in the City's Office of Sustainability and Environment. Her prior experience was as Water Conservation Manager for the City and several years in energy conservation policy and program work - at the State, at the City and as a consultant.