EENR Calendar of Environmental Events in Houston

This list records past events in the Houston area for environmental lawyers, students, consultants and practitioners. It includes several conferences and workshops that are not sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center or the EENR Center. While we include them for your information, neither the Law Center nor the EENR Center endorse or authorize any outside speakers or events.

For current and upcoming events, please check the EENR Center homepage regularly for updates.

Past Events

April 4, 2012 - Professor Paul Stephan of University of Virginia School of Law discusssed "The Yukos Affair", the highly politicized creation and destruction of the Yukos oil empire as a counterpoint to efforts in Russia to reform its legal institutions. more...

April 3, 2012 - The Association of International Petroleum Negotitors held a lunch discussion about "Overcoming International Negotiation Challenges In the Oil and Gas Industry" featuring Harry Sullivan, Senior Counsel, Conoco Phillips.  

March 30, 2012 - the Environmental & Energy Law & Policy Journal hosted its annual Symposium on "American Energy Independence: An 'All of the Above' Strategy for Our Energy Policy."   more...

March 26, 2012 - the UH Bauer College of Business and EMAP presented Richard Oblath, the vice-president of Downstream Portfolio Americas and Global PCRO for Shell Downstream Inc.  more...

March 22, 2012 -- the IAPG Houston chapter hosted its monthly luncheon with guest speaker Curtis Cohen from Neos GeoSolutions. He discussed the "Application of New Remote Sensing Technologies to Evaluate Both Conventional Hydrocarbon Potential and the Vaca Muerta Shale Play."  more...

March 21, 2012 -- the Houston Bar Association's Environmental Section held its monthly lunch meeting to hear a presentation by Ilan Levin from the Environmental Integrity Project on "Texas Air Quality Hot Issues: An NGO's Perspective."  more...

March 15, 2012 -- Texas Association of Environmental Professional's monthly luncheon will feature Dr. Scott Dwyer of Kleinfelder. He will discuss Risk Assessment Approaches to Soil and Groundwater Contamination. more...

March 8, 2012 -- Lone Star Sierra Club's Houston chapter will hold its monthly meeting. The meeting will feature a screening of "Addicted to Plastic". more..

.March 6, 2012 -- The Houston Chapter of the Air & Waste Management Association's monthly luncheon featured a presentation by TCEQ on “2011 Emissions Inventory changes and electronic submittal." more...

March 1, 2012 -- Thomas Mitro, an energy consultant and former executive at Chevron Nigeria, lectured on "Petroleum Companies and Social Corporate Responsibility in Africa: Change in Direction Since the 1990s". more...

February 23, 2012 -- at the Houston Renewable Energy Network's breakfast meeting, Randy Lack, Chief Marketing Officer of Element Markets LLC and Bruce Wilcoxon, Director, Climate Change at ConocoPhillips, provided an update on federal and state renewable energy policy development. more...

February 16, 2012 -- The Texas Association of Environmental Professionals' monthly luncheon featured Matt Tejada from the Clean Air Alliance.  more...

February 11, 2012 -- The University of Houston Law Alumni Association and Trees for Houston partnered to plant trees at the UH campus at 9:00 a.m.   more...

Feb. 9, 2012, Lone Star Sierra Club's Houston chapter monthly meeting. The guest speaker was Bob Stokes, President of the Galveston Bay Foundation.  more...

Feb. 8, 2012-- Houston Bar Association Environmental Section's Monthly Luncheon with noted environmental attorney Jim Blackburn.   He discussed the various ethical issues associated with science and its usage in the legal process, including the responsibilities of counsel relative to science and truth.  For more information, click here...

Jan. 26, 2012 -- National Symposium on Environmental Criminal Liability. As part of its National Moot Court competition, UHLC held a symposium on Jan. 26 with a panel of top enivronmental criminal defense attorneys. The moot court competition concluded on Saturday, Jan. 28, with a finals argument before several Fifth Circuit and Texas Supreme Court justices on an enviromental criminal liability case.   more...

Jan. 19, 2012 -- Mock U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument on Climate Change Liability, noon - 2 p.m. at the University of Houston Law Center.  A noted panel of judges, including Ken Starr (former federal judge, special prosecutor and current President of Baylor University), John Cruden (President of the Environmental Law Institute and past deputy assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division) and Tom Phillips (former Texas Supreme Court justice), will arguments from leading advocates Rick Faulk and David Axelrad. Students will join in an extended analysis and discussion of the argument with the speakers after the argument.  more...

Dec. 14, 2011 -- Houston Bar Association Environmental Section's Monthly Lunch, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Petroleum Club, 800 Bell Street, 43rd Floor, Houston, Texas.   Texas Railroad Commissioner David J. Porter will speak on "Emerging Environmental Issues in the Texas Oil and Gas Arena". For more information, click here.

Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 -- Texas Nature Conservancy presentation at Rice University.  Laura Huffman, State Director of the Nature Conservancy in Texas, will speak at Rice University on Nov. 30 about "Water is Not an Option: Texas' Broken Promise to Future Generations."  more...

Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 -- EENR Center Lecture with Acting Assistant Secretary Marcilynn Burke.
Please join us for a special lunch presentation with Secretary Burke, who oversees the federal bureaus responsible for some of our nation's most important energy and environmental stewardship projects. Secretary Burke will speak at noon until 1 pm at the Law Center.  For more information, click here

Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 - EENR Center Fall Lecture – Professor Richard Lazarus.  Prof. Richard Lazarus, Environmental Law Professor at Harvard Law School and former Executive Director of Deepwater Horizon Task Force,gave the EENR Center Fall 2011 lecture on Nov. 16.  For more information, click here.

Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 -Air, Waste & Management Association monthly lunch meeting. For more information, click here

Monday, Oct. 31, 2011 - Daniel Yergin speaks at Cemo Hall. Pulitzer Prize-winning energy specialist Daniel Yergin will discuss his new book, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, at 5:30 pm on Monday, October 31, 2011, in the Stubblefield Auditorium at Cemo Hall.

Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011 - HGAC Regional Air Quality Planning Committee's monthly meeting.The Houston-Galveston Area Council's Regional Air Quality Planning Committee brings together representatives from industry, academia, government and enviromental advocacy groups to review upcoming air quality events and possible strategies for the Houston-Galveston region.  Click here for more information.

Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 - IAPG, the international oil and gas trade association for Argentina, will hold its October luncheon on Promise of Shale Follows Offshore Boom on Brazil's unconventional gas resources, at the Renaissance Houston Hotel - Plaza Ballroom at 6 Greenway Plaza. For more information, click here.

Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 - Texas Association of Environmental Professionals Luncheon, Fresh Water Inflow Along Texas Coast, including Update on San Jacinto Superfund Site with Scott Jones, Galveston Bay Foundation, at 11:30-1:00. For more information, click here.  Location: Brady's Landing, 8505 Cypress Street, Houston, Texas 77012.  Call 713.928.9921

Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 - Sierra Club Houston's monthly meeting.  This month's meeting has an environmental law topic: Jim Blackburn and Mary Carter will discuss the Houston Sierra Club's lawsuit on the Grand Parkway. Click here for more information.

Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011 - Houston Bar Association Environmental Section's Monthly Lunch, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Petroleum Club, 800 Bell Street, 43rd Floor, Houston, Texas. Topic: "OSHA Enforcement Trends that Every Environmental Lawyer Needs to Know" by Matthew Deffebach (Haynes & Boone) and Jim Shelton, Compliance Assistance Specialist, Occupational Safety & Health Administration. For more information, click here.

Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 -Houston Bar Association's Oil & Gas Section Annual Fall Reception with Exxon Mobil's General Counsel. For more information, click here.

Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 4-5, 2011 - *Gulf Coast Power Association 26th Annual Fall Conference & Exhibition in Austin, Texas, To view the brochure with full conference agenda & complete conference information click here.

Location & Room Reservations:
AT&T Conference Center
University of Texas Campus in Austin
SPECIAL RATE OF $169 PER NIGHT AVAILABLE
Conference Pricing Information:
·         State & Government Full-Time Employees - $80
·         Full-Time Students - $60

Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 - Lunch presentaiton on Flare Issues and EPA & TCEQ Regulatory Plans as of September, 2011 by Bruce Davis, Air Quality Technology Consultant, DuPont Engineering Technology (DuET). Sponsored by the Air & Waste Management Association's Gulf Coast Chapter, at Brady's Landing Restaurant. 11:00 a.m. --  Sign-In and Networking
11:30 a.m.  -- Lunch with presentation immediately following. For more information, click here.

Friday, Sep. 30, 2011. EENR Environmental Law Class Field Trip to Valero Refinery

Open to environmental law class students only. Students are asked to RSVP if they will not be able to attend.
WHEN: Friday, Sep. 30, 2011. 9:00-11:30am.
WHERE: Valero Refinery.
Click here for a summary of the Valero tour.