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  • Apr 14, 2008 Jason Grumet to speak at Climate Change Regulation Conference The debate rages as the Senate moves forward but will greenhouse gas emissions control legislation be enacted in the 110th Congress or only after the 2008 Presidential election? What are the prospects and possible timelines?
    Sheraton Crystal City Hotel
      
  • Mar 27, 2008 Churchill and Zionism: Not By Sufferance Michael Makovsky, BPC Foreign Policy Director and author of Churchill's Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft, will be at the Center for Jewish History March 27, 2008.
    Center for Jewish History 15W 16th Street New York
      
  • Mar 20, 2008 Dave Conover, panelist at the National Association of Environmental Law Societies Conference Dave Conover will be a panelist at the National Association of Environmental Law Societies (NAELS) annual conference. The panel is titled, Capping Carbon: The Current State of Climate Legislation
    University of Vermont
      
  • Feb 27, 2008 An Evening with the Author, Michael Makovsky An evening with Michael Makovsky, author of the award-winning book, Churchill's Promised Land
      
  • Feb 26, 2008 Joshua Schank to speak the NADO 2008 Washington Policy Conference Joshua Schank, Director of Research for the National Transportation Policy Project will be speaking at the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) 2008 Washington Policy Conference.
    Marriott Crystal Gateway Arlington
      
  • Feb 20, 2008 Joshua Schank, to speak at conference held at the American Enterprise Institute Joshua Schank to speak at a conference entitled "Old Europe, New Ideas: What America Can Learn From Its Allies".
    American Enterprise Institute 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington
      
  • Feb 1, 2008 Joe Kruger, Policy Director, speaking about U.S Climate Policy at Ursinus College

    Joe Kruger, Policy Director, will be speaking a bout U.S. climate policy at the Focus the Nation Climate Conference at Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA.

    Click here for event details.


    Ursinus College
      
  • Jan 24, 2008 Existing Coal Power Plants and Climate Change:CO2 Retrofit Possibilities and Implications Energy Technology Forum Existing Coal Power Plants and Climate Change:CO2 Retrofit Possibilities and Implications
    Washington Court Hotel on Capitol Hill
      
  • Jan 15, 2008 Joshua Schank speaking at the Transportation Research Board’s 87th Annual Meeting January 15, 2007 - Joshua Schank, BPC’s Director of Transportation Research for the National Transportation Policy Project, will be speaking at the Transportation Research Board’s 87th Annual Meeting. His presentation titled, “Freight Transportation Planning: Benchmarking and Best Practices,” will take place from 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. in the Hemisphere Room at the Washington Hilton. He will also be presenting a poster session on that same topic from 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. on Monday, January 14th in the International Center of the Washington Hilton.

    Schank served as Transportation Policy Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton. He previously worked as a consultant with Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the world’s largest transportation planning and engineering firms.
    Washington Hilton
      
  • Jan 13, 2008 to Jan 15, 2008 Emil Frankel to participate on three panels during the 87th Annual Conference of the Transportation
    January 13-15, 2007 - Emil Frankel, BPC’s Director of Transportation Policy will be participating on three panels during the 87th Annual Conference of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) to be held in Washington, DC.

    Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008, Panelist in a workshop titled, “Emerging Debate About New Systems for Transportation Finance and Funding Approaches for the Future,” 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., Washington Hilton, Lincoln East Room;

    Monday, Jan. 14, 2008, Moderator for a panel on “Reauthorization and Climate Change: Federal, State, and Local Roles,” 1:30 PM to 3:15 PM, Washington Hilton, Lincoln West Room;

    Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008, Discussant for a panel on “Goods Movement: Using Economics,” 8 AM to 9:45 AM.
    Washington Hilton

    Frankel served as the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy for the U.S. Department of Transportation from 2002 to 2005 under President George W. Bush.


    Washington Hilton
      
  • Dec 28, 2007 Dave Conover- Panelist at National Global Climate Change Legislation: How the Key Players View the I December 7, 2007 - David Conover, Counsel for the National Commission on Energy Policy and BPC's National Transportation Policy Project, will be a panelist during an ABA SEER Climate Change teleconference titled, "National Global Climate Change Legislation: How the Key Players View the Issues."

    Time: 9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. PST; 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 p.m. MST; 11:15 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. CST; and 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. EST.

    The teleconference will address the key issues under consideration in the legislation, including key design elements of cap-and-trade bills such as allowance allocations versus auctions, point of regulation, offsets, cost-containment mechanisms, and technologies, incentives and funding mechanisms.

    Moderator:
    Dr. Marty Spitzer, Esq., Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, and the Center for Clean Air Policy

    Panelists:
    David Conover, Esq., National Commission on Energy Policy - Bipartisan...
      
  • Dec 28, 2007 Joshua Schank speaking at the Transportation Research Board’s 87th Annual Meeting January 15, 2007 - Joshua Schank, BPC’s Director of Transportation Research for the National Transportation Policy Project, will be speaking at the Transportation Research Board’s 87th Annual Meeting. His presentation titled, “Freight Transportation Planning: Benchmarking and Best Practices,” will take place from 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. in the Hemisphere Room at the Washington Hilton. He will also be presenting a poster session on that same topic from 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. on Monday, January 14th in the International Center of the Washington Hilton.

    Schank served as Transportation Policy Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton. He previously worked as a consultant with Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the world’s largest transportation planning and engineering firms.

      
  • Jul 20, 2007 Brookings, South Dakota - July 20th, 2006 Agenda for the July 20th, 2006 meeting which took place in Brookings, South Dakota.
    South Dakota State University Student Union -- Volstorff Ballroom West (101A) Brookings,
      
  • May 30, 2007 Brookings, South Dakota - July 20th, 2006 (Washington, DC) – Former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Bob Dole will hold a press conference May 30 in Washington to release a new report calling for a transformation of U.S. agricultural policy to expand America farm markets and reform existing subsidies. The new study comes as Congress is set to begin work on reauthorization of Farm Bill. »Read More
    South Dakota State University Student Union -- Volstorff Ballroom West (101A) Brookings,
      
  • Feb 12, 2007 Washington D.C. - March 15th, 2006 Agenda for the March 15th, 2006 meeting which took place in Washington, D.C.
    AGENDA Testing Insert/Update March 15, 2006 Mandarin Oriental Hotel 1330 Maryland Ave, SW Oriental Ballroom C
      
  • Sep 1, 2005 Design Issues in Market-based Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategies Workshop 1: Design Issues in Market-based Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategies September 1, 2005 Washington Court Hotel Washington, DC
    Washington Court Hotel, Washington
      

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