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ENVIRONMENTAL, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES LAW PROGRAM
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(above) (1) Janet McCabe, the top air official
at the EPA, gave the keynote address. (2)
Mark Maassel, president of the Indiana Energy
Association, is a longtime leader in the energy
industry and provided that perspective to the
discussion. (3) Professor Eric Dannenmaier
closed the event with a plenary session titled
“Prospects for Air’s Future: How Can and
Should the Law Adapt?”
(left) Professor Frank Sullivan, Jr., talks with
John R. Whitaker, ‘82, a senior policy advisor
for Bose Public Affairs Group who also served
as general counsel of Citizens Energy and as
counsel to Governor Robert Orr; and David
Pippen, ‘94, a partner at Bose McKinney &
Evans, who also had served as counsel to
Governor Mitch Daniels.
Environmental Justice Lecture
Held at IU McKinney
Jerome Ringo, (left) a past chairperson of the National Wildlife
Federation, was the speaker September 25, 2014, at the invitation
of Professor Carlton Waterhouse for a special environmental justice
lecture. Ringo is from Lake Charles, Louisiana, and worked for 22
years in the petrochemical industry before beginning his work in the
environmental justice realm. Ringo said he became a whistleblower
on his former company when he realized that much of the pollution it
generated was harming low-income African-American communities,
and causing health problems for residents. ❖
IU ROBERT H. McKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW / Summer 2015 Alumni Magazine 35