Breathing Easier: Air Pollution Challenges and Solutions
DATE: Thursday, March 20 2025 - Friday, March 21 2025
TIME: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm MST
LOCATION: College of Law and Virtual Event
COST: Registration will open in January.
CLE (details forthcoming)
The Wallace Stegner Center 30th Annual Symposium
Breathing Easier: Air Pollution Challenges and Solutions
ABOUT THE EVENT:
The Stegner Center’s 30th annual symposium, Breathing Easier: Air Pollution Challenges and Solutions, will focus on one of Utah’s greatest challenges: air pollution.
The symposium will consider air pollution’s environmental and human health tolls—including the unequal burdens air pollution places on disadvantaged communities. Despite gains in many places, air pollution remains a vexing problem across the nation. In Utah, winters bring inversions and particulate matter pollution, and summers deliver increased ground-level ozone pollution. The Wasatch Front regularly exceeds national ambient air quality standards, exacerbated by the region’s unique geography and meteorology.
Finding solutions to these thorny problems becomes only more vital with each passing year. Emerging threats like dust from the shrinking Great Salt Lake and intensifying wildfire smoke further compound longstanding air pollution problems. Experts will share potential solutions, including those that have found success in other parts of the country.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Ben Abbott, Brigham Young University Plant & Wildlife Sciences
- Bryce Bird, Utah Department of Environmental Quality Division of Air Quality
- Rebecca Bratspies, CUNY School of Law
- Ann Carlson, UCLA Law (Stegner Lecture)
- Lingxi Chenyang, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
- Brigham Daniels, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
- Lincoln Davies, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
- Sara Grineski, University of Utah College of Social and Behavioral Science
- Lisa Grow, Brigham Young University Law School
- Kerry Kelly, University of Utah Department of Chemical Engineering
- Bob Keiter, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
- John C. Lin, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences
- Derek Malia, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences
- Daniel Mendoza, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences
- Brian Moench, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment
- Ruhan Nagra, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
- Raymond Oldman, Navajo Nation
- Robert Paine III, University of Utah Hospital Division of Respiratory, Critical Care and Occupational Pulmonary Medicine
- Beth Parker, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
- Kevin D. Perry, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences
- Susana Ramírez, University of California, Merced School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Art
- Terra Rentz, The Nature Conservancy
- John Ruple, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
- Deborah Sivas, Stanford Law School
- Brian Steed, State of Utah Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner
- Deena Tumeh, EarthJustice
- Carmen Valdez, HEAL Utah
- Elizabeth Kronk Warner, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
We are excited to welcome you to our 30th Annual Symposium! Registration will open January 2025. Please check this website for regular updates.
For questions about this event email events@law.utah.edu.
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