WilmerHale Partner Peggy Otum will speak on a panel titled “State-Level Climate Initiatives on the West Coast: Expansion of the Cap-And-Trade Approach to Pricing Carbon.”
Speakers: John Walsh, Peggy Otum, Daniel Farber and
Marsden Hanna
Walsh: As President Biden s first
executive orders demonstrate, climate change is now at the heart of
federal environmental policy agenda. But regardless of who sits in
the White House, the private sector has focused on this very
important topic for years. For example, major companies
implementing climate pledges such as Google s announcement that
it will run on carbon-free energy by 2030. Today I m joined by
my fellow WilmerHale Partner Peggy Otum, Co-Chair of our Energy,
Environment and Natural Resources Practice. For over 16 years Peggy
has focused on complex environmental litigation and regulatory