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EBC Massachusetts Program
Update from Federal and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Environmental Leadership
Join us for this EBC Massachusetts program and learn about state and federal environmental
and energy priorities for the state of Massachusetts. Speakers include US EPA Regional
Administrator Curt Spalding, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Commissioner Ken Kimmell. Also on the program are legislative leaders Senator Marc R.
Pacheco, Senate Chair of both the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and
Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change, and
Representative Anne M. Gobi, House Chair of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural
Resources and Agriculture.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
One Financial Center
Boston
Draft AGENDA
7:30 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.
Welcome – Daniel K. Moon, President EBC
8:15 a.m.
Federal Environmental Program Update: Post Election Reflections
 Curtis Spalding, Regional Administrator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Region 1
8:45 a.m.
Massachusetts Environmental Program Update
 Kenneth Kimmell, Commissioner
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
9:15 a.m.
Massachusetts Environmental Legislative Priorities
 Marc R. Pacheco
Chair, Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and
Agriculture
Chair, Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change
 Anne M. Gobi, House Chair, Joint Committee on Environment, Natural
Resources and Agriculture
9:45 a.m.
Open Discussion
10:30 a.m.
Adjourn
Speakers
Anne M. Gobi, State Representative
Massachusetts State House, Room 473F
Boston, MA 02133
617-722-2210 [email protected]
Kenneth L. Kimmell, Commissioner
Department of Environmental Protection
Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
One Winter Street, Boston
617-292-5856
[email protected]
Mr. Kimmell joined the Patrick Administration in January 2007 as general counsel of the
Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. On an interim basis, he also served as
general counsel to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. He has focused on:
 legislation to merge energy and environmental agencies into one secretariat;
 major legislative initiatives such as the Green Communities Act, the Global Warming
Solutions Act, and the Oceans Act;
 permit streamlining initiatives;
 wind energy siting reform;
 the Massachusetts Ocean Plan;
 state and federal permitting of the Cape Wind project, the nation's first off-shore wind
project; and
 development and early implementation of policy initiatives such as the MEPA
Greenhouse Gas policy, a first-in-the-nation policy that requires developers of major
projects to identify, avoid, and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
Prior to joining the Patrick-Murray Administration, Mr. Kimmell was in private practice where he
focused on environmental and land use law and litigation, and argued numerous cases dealing
with issues such as home rule powers of municipalities, zoning, and solid waste permitting.
Mr. Kimmell graduated from Wesleyan University and UCLA School of Law. He lives in Newton,
where he has served on the Newton Community Preservation Act Committee. He is also a
former Board Member of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions.
Marc R. Pacheco, State Senator
Massachusetts State House, Room 312B
Boston, MA 02133
617-722-1551 [email protected]
Senator Marc R. Pacheco was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1988 and to
the Massachusetts Senate in 1992 by the citizens of the 1st Plymouth and Bristol District. Senator
Pacheco dedicated many years of service to the Taunton School Committee prior to his time in the
Massachusetts Legislature. He is currently the highest ranking elected official of Portuguese descent in
Massachusetts. Senator Pacheco is chairman of the powerful Senate Committee on Post Audit and
Oversight, and was recently named co-chairman of the newly formed Joint Committee on Federal
Stimulus Oversight to oversee spending of these funds in the state.
He is also chairman of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture and the
Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change. Senator Pacheco was honored to be
selected by Al Gore in 2007 to become a Climate Messenger and increase awareness of this critical
issue He also serves on the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, and is a member of the Joint
Committee on Health Care Financing and the Joint Committee on Telecommunication, Utilities and
Energy.
Senator Pacheco has prioritized the key issues of today to build a better tomorrow for the future
generations of the Commonwealth. Throughout his career, Senator Pacheco has supported initiatives to
spur economic growth, preserve and protect the environment, ensure the protection of rights for veterans
and senior citizens, increase civic engagement, create jobs in the new “green” economy, and foster the
creation of global economic partnerships.
A life-long resident of Taunton, Senator Pacheco was first elected to public office in 1979 as a member of
the Taunton School Committee. He served for ten years as a member of that body, eventually rising to
chairman of the committee. From 1982 to 1988, he worked for the mayor of Taunton as his chief
assistant and budget director.
The Senator earned his Master's Degree in Public Administration from Suffolk University. Senator
Pacheco has a Bachelor's Degree in Human Services from New Hampshire College and an Associate's
Degree from the University of Massachusetts-Stockbridge School. Senator Pacheco and his wife
Barbara (Sylvia) Pacheco currently reside in the city of Taunton, just a few blocks from where he grew
up.
H. Curtis Spalding, Regional Administrator
U.S. EPA Region 1
5 Post Office Square, Suite 100, Boston, MA 02109-3912
(617) 918-1010 // [email protected]
H. Curtis "Curt" Spalding has extensive experience in the environmental protection field as an advocate,
policy analyst and administrator. For almost 20 years, he served as Executive Director of Save The Bay
in Rhode Island, a nationally recognized, 20,000-member environmental advocacy and education
organization. He established the Narragansett BayKeeper and Habitat Restoration programs which
reconnected Save The Bay to ecologically important Bay issues and oversaw the successful completion
of the $9 million Explore The Bay Campaign and construction of the Save The Bay Center at Fields Point
in Providence, RI. Prior to joining Save The Bay, Spalding was an Environmental Protection Specialist
and Presidential Management Intern at EPA’s offices in Boston and Washington, D.C. Spalding received
his bachelor’s degree from Hobart College and an M.P.A. from SUNY at Albany in Albany, NY.
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