The High Cost of Non-Compliance:
Risk Management and Environmental Protection Duties from the Industry Perspective
The Stegner Center will host a seminar on “The High Cost of Non-Compliance: Risk Management and Environmental Protection Duties from the Industry Perspective.” Topics to be discussed include responding to catastrophic industrial accidents, appropriate regulatory responses to industrial non-compliance, environmental health and safety management systems, and the interaction of regulators, the regulated community and community leaders.
6 hours of CLE Credit (1 hour ethics/professionalism & civility)
Sponsored by:
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
The Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment
Agenda
8:30 a.m. – Registration
9:00 a.m. – Welcome
9:10 a.m. – Keynote Lecture: What Can Happen to a Company When Things Go Wrong:
Balancing Duties to Shareholders, Customers and Public
Carol Dinkins, Partner, Vinson & Elkins
10:10 a.m. – Break
10:25 a.m. – Panel: Responding to a Catastrophic Industrial Accident
Moderator: Robin Kundis Craig, William H. Leary Professor of Law, University of Utah S. J. Quinney College of Law (Moderator)
Rich Haddock, Vice President Strategic Business and US Legal Affairs, Barrick Gold
Steven G. Jones, Of Counsel, Holland & Hart
Charles (David) Nutt, Director of Legal Services, EHS, Huntsman International, LLC
Amanda Smith, Executive Director, Utah Department of Environmental Quality
11:40 a.m. – Lunch
12:15 p.m. – Panel: Appropriate Regulatory Response to Industrial Non-Compliance
Moderator: Lincoln Davies, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, University of Utah S. J. Quinney College of Law
Craig Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Utah Attorney General’s Office
Walt Baker, Director, Division of Water Quality, Utah Department of Environmental Quality
Suzanne Bohan, Acting Assistant Regional Administrator for the Reg 8 Office of Enforcement, Compliance and Environmental Justice
Carol Dinkins, Partner, Vinson & Elkins
Stephen Smithson, Counsel, Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (formerly Senior Corporate Counsel, Rio Tinto)
1:30 p.m. – Panel: Environmental Health and Safety Management Systems
Moderator: Jim Moore, formerly General Counsel, Huntsman Chemical Corporation (retired)
Jim Alto, Director Environmental, Barrick Gold Corporation
Steven Christiansen, Shareholder, Parr Brown Gee & Loveless
Paul Harding, Business Assistance, Utah Department of Environmental Quality
Christopher Thomas, Executive Director, HEAL UT
2:45 p.m. – Break
3:00 p.m. – Panel: Interaction of Regulators, the Regulated Community and Community Leaders:
Importance of Ethics and Civility in These Relationships
Moderator: Michele Straube, Director, Stegner Center Environmental Dispute Resolution Program
Sandra K. Allen, Assistant Attorney General, Utah Attorney General’s Office, Environmental Division
Rob Dubuc, Staff Attorney, Utah Office, Western Resource Advocates
Joe Havasi, Director of Natural Resources, Compass Minerals Ogden, Inc.
Dan Johnson, Independent Consultant; Oil and Gas Industry (retired)
Lisa A. Kirschner, Shareholder, Parsons Behle & Latimer
Department of Environmental Quality Boardroom,
195 North 1950 West, Salt Lake City, Utah
