ANN ARBOR—Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will kick off a Michigan Law conference on the next president’s environmental program Thursday by discussing Michigan’s role in that program—especially in light of the state’s recently passed renewable energy legislation.

The governor’s Sept. 25 address, slated for 4 p.m. in Honigman Auditorium, will formally open “An Environmental Agenda for the Next Administration,” the Law School’s inaugural environmental law conference. During her talk, Granholm also will give tributes to several University of Michigan participants in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—a group which collectively won the Nobel Prize.

On Friday, panel discussions will tackle climate change, alternative energy and sustainability. Also scheduled for Friday is a luncheon address from Georgetown law professor Lisa Heinzerling, who represented Massachusetts and several other states in Massachusetts v. EPA, the landmark case where the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush Administration and held that greenhouse gas emissions can be regulated under the federal Clean Air Act.

The conference, hosted by the Law School’s Environmental Law and Policy Program and co-sponsored by the Environmental Law Society, features top experts on environmental issues facing the nation and the world, as well as an opportunity to hear from some of the key policy makers, law professors, and public interest attorneys in the environmental field.

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