SWEP BROWN BAG PROGRAM – REGULATORY UPDATE:
NEW STATE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BY JULY 1ST AND BEYOND
Eric Brown, Associate Counsel at CBIA
DATE: Thursday, June 20th
TIME: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
PLACE: McCarter & English, City Place I, 185 Asylum Street, 36th Floor, Hartford, CT (see directions below)
Hello SWEP members! We are pleased to invite you to join us at SWEP’s June Brown Bag Program with guest speaker Eric Brown, Associate Counsel at the Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA). Fresh off the close of the Regular Legislative Session (which adjourns today), Mr. Brown will highlight newly enacted environmental laws and other developments of the Session, including Bill 1082. Mr. Brown is a key player at the negotiation table and will provide valuable insights regarding the hot issues, what laws passed, the effective dates and what the future may hold regarding the DEEP’s transformation undertaking. If you have any particular issue you would like to learn about from Mr. Brown, please e-mail such to any SWEP Board Member and we will forward them anonymously to Mr. Brown. Below is additional information on Mr. Brown’s experience and background. This will certainly be a program you do not want to miss. Please RSVP early, as seating is limited.
Please RSVP to Cindy Karlson at ckarlson@bohonnon.com.
Eric Brown is associate counsel at the Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA). His primary responsibilities involve developing policy positions on energy, environmental and land use issues for CBIA and advocating those positions before regulatory agencies and the state legislature. CBIA, Connecticut’s largest business organization, represents over 10,000 companies. The Association works to promote a healthy business climate, which encourages economic growth and job creation in the state. Brown also directs CBIA’s Environmental Policies Council – approximately 200 Connecticut companies that assist CBIA in developing and advocating public policy positions on environmental and energy issues and keeping members up-to-date with governmental activities in these areas. Before CBIA, Brown served as a senior environmental analyst with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. He also worked as an environmental specialist in private practice and worked at the state legislature as well. He holds a B.S. in geology from the University of Rhode Island, a M.S. in geophysics from Boston College and a J.D. from Western New England College School of Law.
Directions to the Hartford Office of McCarter & English:
From I-84 West:
Downtown Hartford Exit 54
At second set of lights (Old State House in front of you) stay in middle lane and bear left around the Old
State House
At next light continue straight across Main Street onto PEARL STREET – the CityPlace Garage entrance
is on RIGHT just past next light (Trumbull Street)
From I-84 East:
Asylum Street Exit 48
Right onto ASYLUM STREET
At second light (State Capitol is on right) turn LEFT onto PEARL STREET
CityPlace Garage entrance is on LEFT just before second light (Trumbull Street)
From I-91 South or I-91 North:
Capitol Area Exit 29A
Continue on exit ramp under tunnel to circle
Just after entering circle bear RIGHT (around park – Bushnell Towers will be on your right)
At second light bear RIGHT onto TRUMBULL STREET
Take LEFT at next light onto PEARL STREET
CityPlace Garage is immediately on right
