ACEC Water and Environment Committee and the ACEC Energy Committee – Joint Summer Meeting

Your water and energy business is planned on the implausible climate model RCP 8.5. What’s next? Hear from featured speaker Roger Pielke Jr. – Climate Science Integrity and Communications  “Have you planned your engineering business around government programs or consultants that rely on the climate model RCP 8.5?  Better rethink your plans!”

Background:

Senate Budget Committee Hearing June 21, 2023:

• Written Testimony and Biography
• Video – at 51:50 to 57:00; and 1:08:25 to 1:10:14; 1:20:20 to 1:21:15; 1:44:20 to 1:46:12

PBS Austin Texas- Energy Switch – The Good News About Climate Change – aired May 7, 2023:

• Video – 27 minutes;
• Transcript

Session Topics: 

• Environmental Review and Permitting – Prospects of E-NEPA with University of Arizona, AECOM, Autodesk, WSP, FPISC, and CEQ
• PFAS- Toxicology, Industrial and Utility Perspectives
• Energy – U.S. Senate ER&P and Energy policy developments, Distributed Energy Resources developments from the National Energy Energy Technology Lab; Denver Decarbonization Building Code
• Water Scarcity – USBR, Metro Water of Southern California, Aurora Water, Colorado Water Conservation Board, The Nature Conservancy
• Advocacy Discussion – Priorities – Path Forward

Register for the Meeting

Where:  Denver Place, 999 18th Street, Denver, CO 80202 | “The Center” Conference Room Ground Floor (½ mile walk from Union Station)

When: August 24-25, 2023

PDHs: 10 (est.)