2025 OOGA Annual Meeting
2025-03-05 10:00 - 2025-03-07 13:00 (America/New_York) | Hilton Columbus at Easton, 3900 Chagrin Dr. , Columbus, OH, 43219, United States
Babst Calland joins the Ohio Oil & Gas Association (OOGA) for its Annual Meeting, March 5-7, 2025. Environmental Attorneys Robert Stonestreet and Mackenzie Moyer will present an “Overview of NEPA and PFAS, Two Federal Environmental Issues Impacting the Oil and Gas Industry.” For more information, click here.
Robert Stonestreet
Mackenzie Moyer

2025 DTCWV For Women by Women Conference
2025-03-06 16:30 | Stonewall Resort, 940 Resort Drive, Roanoke, WV, 26447, United States
Babst Calland joins the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia’s (DTCWV) Women in the Law Committee for its For Women By Women Conference, March 6-7, 2025. This Conference is a unique experience designed to help women lawyers re-energize with tools designed to expand participants’ professional and business development networks.
Attorney Jenni Hicks serves on the Women in the Law Committee.
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ABA SEER’s 54th Spring Conference
2025-03-26 11:30 - 2025-03-29 21:30 | Loews Philadelphia Hotel, 1200 Market Street, Philadelphia, 19107, United States
Babst Calland joins the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER) for its 54th Spring Conference, March 26-29, 2025. The Spring Conference brings top practitioners, experts, and thought leaders together for a deep dive into some of the most compelling and timely topics in the field of environment, energy, and resources law.
Environmental Attorney Christina Puhnaty will serve as the moderator for “All the Latest HAPpenings: The Transformation of the Clean Air Act’s Air Toxics Program.” Nearly 35 years after it was strengthened as part of the 1990 Clean Air Act (CAA) amendments, the CAA’s air toxics program is being reshaped and expanded significantly to add unregulated air toxics, remove affirmative defenses, and address environmental justice. In the last four years, the EPA has revised numerous National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for the chemical, power, steel and iron-making, commercial sterilization, and other industrial sectors. The EPA is advancing policy-based rulemakings to add unregulated Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) to the air toxics rules, making it more difficult for sources to reclassify as area (i.e., lower-emitting) sources, and strengthen emissions limitations and work practice standards. Fenceline monitoring and community risk models are being touted to promote environmental justice. Join this panel of “airheads” who are on the front lines of these changes (and several related
lawsuits) to learn how these broad shifts are affecting this critically important CAA program and how businesses and the lawyers they rely on can stay ahead of the curve.
Environmental Attorney Gary Steinbauer also served on the Conference Planning Committee.
For more information, click here.
Christina Puhnaty
Gary Steinbauer

EPSA's Competitive Power Summit
2025-04-02 | The Grand Hyatt, 1000 H Street NW, Washington, DC, 20001, United States
Babst Calland joins the Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA) for its Competitive Power Summit on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. This event will feature expert panels and keynote speakers who will address key challenges impacting competitive power and the U.S. electric grid. For more information, click here.

2025 Women in Business Conference
2025-04-03 08:00 - 16:00 | Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square, 25 S. Queen Street, Lancaster, PA, 17603, United States
Babst Calland joins the PA Chamber of Business and Industry for its Women in Business Conference on Thursday, April 3, 2025. Business professionals from across Pennsylvania will gather for a full day of networking, sharing ideas, and learning from industry leaders. This Conference will offer engaging panel discussions, expert-led workshops, and opportunities to collaborate on innovative solutions to today’s business challenges. For more information, click here.

2025 ABA Litigation Section Annual Conference
2025-04-30 14:45 - 2025-05-02 11:30 | Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Avenue, IL, 60606, United States
Babst Calland joins the American Bar Association (ABA) for its 2025 Litigation Section Annual Conference, April 30-May 2, 2025. This Conference brings together top litigation professionals from across the U.S. to discuss timely legal issues and the latest in trial advocacy, litigation strategy, and case management.
Litigation Attorney Joseph Schaeffer will serve as the moderator for the session “Using Artificial Intelligence in Discovery & Motion Practice.” This panel of e-Discovery litigators, experts, and a retired judge will discuss the potential opportunities and pitfalls of using artificial intelligence for research, drafting, and discovery, including ethical considerations.
For more information, click here.

2025 MCPA Annual Conference
2025-05-18 - 2025-05-20 | Stonewall Resort, 940 Resort Drive, Roanoke, WV, 26447, United States
Babst Calland joins the Metallurgical Coal Producers Association (MCPA) for is Annual Conference, May 18-20, 2025. This conference brings together key industry leaders representing Metallurgical Coal producers, elected officials (Federal and State), as well as key leaders from transportation. For more information, click here.

2025 APMM Annual Conference
2025-05-19 11:00 - 2025-05-21 12:00 | Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square, 25 S. Queen Street, Lancaster, PA, 17603, United States
Babst Calland joins The Association for Pennsylvania Municipal Management (APMM) for its Annual Conference, May 19-21, 2025. With over 150 professional municipal managers from across the state in attendance, this conference offers a dynamic blend of keynote speakers, engaging learning experiences, and exceptional networking opportunities for municipal government officials. For more information, click here.

Siting Renewable Energy Projects and Transmission Infrastructure
2025-05-29 07:00 - 2025-05-30 17:00 | Denver Marriott Westminster
Babst Calland joins The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law for its Special Institute on Siting Renewable Energy Projects and Transmission Infrastructure, May 29-30, 2025. Attorney Blaine Lucas will serve as a panelist for “Trends and Challenges in Local Government Permitting and State Responses.” This panel will provide a broad survey of the current local government regulatory landscape for renewable energy projects, including local government efforts to discourage or prevent renewable energy development, state-level efforts to preempt or counterbalance local opposition, strategies for working around roadblocks with siting entities, and notable litigation involving local and state permitting. The panel also will address the impacts of environmental justice efforts and other federal actions on local and state project approval processes. For more information, click here.

EMLF’s 46th Annual Institute
2025-06-08 13:30 - 2025-06-10 12:30 | Westin Nashville, 807 Clark Place, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Babst Calland joins the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation (EMLF) for its 46th Annual Institute, June 8-10, 2025.
Litigation Attorney Kathy Condo will serve as a panelist for “A Deep Dive in to Class Action and Multidistrict Litigation.” This panel will look at how the rise of class action and multidistrict litigation has impacted not only the energy industry, but other industries that have similarly been influenced by this litigation strategy. They will examine the way the industries have changed in response, and the practical realities of management of a class action matter including payouts, class settlement, attorneys’ fees and more.
Corporate and Commercial Attorney Moore Capito will present “Powering Data Centers.” Data center is fast becoming a household term. Nearly everyone in the modern world benefits from data centers. As the “backbone” of digital infrastructure, data centers are becoming more and more critical in meeting the demands of the modern digital world. With advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and the increased reliance on computing by people all over the world, demand for data centers is outpacing supply. We are in a global modern-day gold rush to build data centers. And just as the 49ers faced infrastructure challenges of the day, data center developers are facing a critical infrastructure obstacle: energy.
For more information, click here.
Kathy Condo
Moore Capito

AWMA's 118th Annual Conference and Exhibition
2025-06-10 07:00 - 2025-06-12 16:00 | Raleigh Convention Center
Babst Calland joins the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) for its 118th Annual Conference and Exhibition, June 10-12. 2025. As the premier global event for environmental management, technology, and regulation, ACE 2025 will address critical topics such as new regulations and policy, air monitoring and measurements, clean technology, sustainable energy futures, PFAS, green transportation solutions, and ESG approaches and reporting. Hot topics include the environmental impact of electric vehicles and battery energy storage, impacts of AI and data centers, the use of satellite data for air quality and emissions assessments, and the future of hydrogen as a fuel.
Environmental Attorney Gary Steinbauer will serve as a panel co-chair and panelist for “Air Permitting Programs – Federal and State Implementation Perspectives.” The air permitting programs are implemented under the cooperative federalism paradigm per the Clean Air Act. With the change in administration, significant changes are expected at EPA OAQPS pertaining to staffing and policy objectives. EPA is also likely to push more obligations to states and local agencies for air programs. A panel of experts will discuss key developments in cooperative federalism, and detail experiences and future changes that may affect the permitting agencies and the regulated community.
For more information, click here.

71st Annual Natural Resources and Energy Law Institute
2025-07-17 08:30 - 2025-07-19 12:00 | Fairmont Chateau Whistler
Babst Calland joins The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (FRNEL) for its 71st Annual Natural Resources and Energy Law Institute, July 17-19, 2025. The Institute will bring together 76 speakers from private practice, companies, academia, government, and nonprofits for 39 presentations in 10 separate sessions, including the plenary general session, two sessions on oil and gas and landman’s legal issues, sessions on mining, renewable energy and electricity, environmental law, and public lands, a session just for in-house counsel, and for the first time, two sessions on international issues. For more information, click here.

2025 West Virginia Aviation Conference
2025-07-27 10:00 - 2025-07-29 13:30 | Snowshoe Mountain Resort, 10 Snowshoe Drive, Snowshoe, WV, 26209, United States
Babst Calland joins the West Virginia Airport Managers Association for its annual West Virginia Aviation Conference, July 27-July 29, 2025. For more information, click here.

4th Annual Marcellus Shale Water Business Update
2025-08-04 18:00 - 2025-08-05 18:00 | Omni William Penn Hotel, 530 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219, United States
Babst Calland joins the Oilfield Water Connection for its 4th Annual Marcellus Shale Water Business Update on Tuesday, August 5, 2025. During this conference, more than 100 E&P, midstream, and water service business leaders will gather in Pittsburgh to dive deep into the latest trends shaping the Appalachian produced water sector. Attorneys Lisa Bruderly and Gary Steinbauer will present “Trump Energy & Water Policy Update.” For more information, click here.
Lisa Bruderly
Gary Steinbauer

2025 WVCA Annual Membership Meeting
2025-08-07 - 2025-08-09 | The Greenbrier, 300 W Main St. , White Sulphur Springs , WV, 24986, United States
Babst Calland joins the West Virginia Coal Association for its Annual Membership Meeting, August 7-9, 2025. For more information, click here.

16th Appalachia Energy Law Conference
2025-09-02 17:30 - 2025-09-03 17:10 | Fairmont Pittsburgh, 510 Market Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222, United States
Babst Calland joins the Institute for Energy Law and the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation (EMLF) at the 16th Appalachia Energy Law Conference (f/k/a Law of Shale Plays Conference), September 2-3, 2025. Focused on legal issues related to onshore energy production, primarily oil and gas production in Appalachia, this conference brings together clients, attorneys, professional landmen, and other professionals to learn and discuss important cases, concepts, and trends. In addition, the conference features multiple networking opportunities with other attendees.
Attorney Dan Richey will present “The Changing Midstream Legal Landscape in 2025.” This presentation looks at emerging trends and new challenges and opportunities in the midstream oil and gas industry, which is expected to see increased consolidation and potential for substantial growth, but also headwinds of uncertainty in a changing regulatory environment. It will touch on how economic and policy vectors are steering those trends, such as changes in federal regulatory posture and their relationship to the state regulatory apparatus, as well as economic trends, such as the potential for a surge in demand for natural gas amid potential growth driven by exports and the explosion in data center-related capital expenditures. Finally, it will review practical implications for pipeline projects and deals in the western Pennsylvania PJM footprint.
Attorney Jenni Hicks will serve as a conference co-chair. For more information, click here.
Dan Richey
Jenni Hicks

Shale Insight 2025
2025-09-16 17:00 - 2025-09-18 13:45 | Bayfront Conference Center, 1 Sassafras Pier, Erie, PA, 16507
Babst Calland joins the Marcellus Shale Coalition for Shale Insight 2025, September 16-18, 2025. Shale Insight offers participants an insider’s view from the nation’s foremost energy leaders and experts on shale development, environmental protection, pipeline investment, energy driven manufacturing and jobs in demand.
Attorneys Gina Buchman and Gary Steinbauer will serve as panelists for “Just Venting: Navigating the EPA’s Evolving Air Quality Standards for the Oil and Gas Industry.” In March of 2025, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a sweeping deregulatory effort to advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders. Among the “31 actions” announced are regulations that affect the oil and natural gas industry, including the reconsideration of NSPS Part 60 Subparts OOOOb and OOOOc, the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rules, and many others. This panel will discuss the current status of the deregulatory efforts that affect the oil and gas industry, anticipated effects of these actions, operator strategies and perspectives, and ways for industry to participate in the process.
Attorneys Moore Capito, Ben Clapp, Justine Kasznica, Blaine Lucas and Dave White will serve as panelists for “A Comprehensive Approach to Data Center Development and the Pivotal Role of Natural Gas.” Development of new data centers hinges on access to reliable power. Natural gas, in abundant supply from the Marcellus and Utica shales, positions this region well for these new projects, along with site redevelopment opportunities, experienced construction companies, R&D capabilities, and an available workforce. This panel will address the most pressing issues related to data center development – including development financing, project siting, land use, zoning, and construction considerations – and provide pathways forward for successful projects.
For more information, click here.
Gina Buchman
Gary Steinbauer
Moore Capito
Ben Clapp
Justine Kasznica
Blaine Lucas
Dave White

2025 Energy and Mineral Law Moot Court Competition
2025-10-07 - 2025-10-08 | Central Bank Center, 430 W. Vine Street, Lexington, KY, 40507, United States
Babst Calland joins the Energy Mineral Law Foundation (EMLF), in collaboration with the Appalachian School of Law (ASL), for their 2025 Energy and Mineral Law Moot Court Competition, October 7-8, 2025. The purpose of this Competition is to foster and develop expertise in appellate advocacy on issues related to energy, environmental, and natural resources law. The Competition is coordinated by the Energy and Mineral Law Moot Court Board, which is composed of ASL faculty, staff, and students from the ASL Moot Court Board and the Natural Resource Law Center, and the Executive Director of EMLF and her appointees. For more information, click here.

2025 EMLF Fall Symposium
2025-10-07 08:00 - 2025-10-09 12:15 | Central Bank Center, 430 W. Vine Street, Lexington, KY, 40507, United States
Babst Calland joins the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation (EMLF) for its Annual Fall Symposium, October 7-9, 2025.
Employment and Labor Attorney John McCreary will present “The End of Prohibition: Marijuana Comes to the Workplace.” At least 33 states have authorized the use of medical cannabis. At least 18 states have “legalized” the recreational use of cannabis. To date, federal law continues to classify cannabis as a Schedule 1 substance defined as “drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” The conflicting legal regimes create uncertainty for employers. This presentation will review state and federal laws relating to cannabis and discuss some noteworthy court decisions.
Litigation Attorneys Steve Silverman and Katerina Vassil will co-present “Legal and Practical Hurdles Surrounding Lithium: The Next Extraction Revolution.” As E&P companies explore participating in lithium extraction from produced water, they face many legal and business hurdles but recognize that the benefits may be tremendous. This program explores those hurdles, including overcoming title issues, lease language limitations, and other challenges by answering such fundamental questions as who owns the extracted lithium and the produced water where it resides. Just as importantly, it will address the state of extraction technologies and their current scalability and sustainability limitations.
For more information, click here.
John McCreary
Steve Silverman
Katerina Vassil

ABA SEER's Fall Conference
2025-10-22 11:30 - 2025-10-24 18:15 | Crystal Gateway Marriott, 1700 Richmond Highway, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
Babst Calland joins the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER) for its 33rd Fall Conference, October 22-25, 2025. SEER’s Fall Conference brings together leading professionals from the public and private sectors for dynamic programming that addresses hot topics in environmental, energy, and resources law, while also forging new connections and strengthening professional networks. For more information, click here.

2025 PA Chamber’s Annual Environmental Conference
2025-10-28 08:00 - 15:30 | Sheraton Harrisburg Hershey
Environmental Attorney Gary Steinbauer will co-present “Federal and State Policy Changes in Environment and Energy” at the PA Chamber of Business and Industry’s Annual Environmental Conference on Tuesday, October 28, 2025. This Conference brings together industry leaders, policymakers, and stakeholders to provide critical updates on environmental policy in the Commonwealth. It also explores insights and aspirations for the future of energy and infrastructure investment in Pennsylvania, as well as what that future holds for the state’s emerging policy landscape. For more information, click here.

ACBA Labor and Employment Symposium
2025-11-13 07:30 - 17:00 | The Westin Pittsburgh, 1000 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15222, United States
Babst Calland joins the Allegheny County Bar Association (ACBA) for its Labor and Law Symposium on Thursday, November 13, 2025. For more information, click here.

2026 Environmental Compliance Navigator Conference
2026-03-17 12:00 - 2026-03-19 16:00 | NOPSI Hotel, 317 Baronne Street, New Orleans, LA, 70112
Environmental Attorney Gary Steinbauer will present “Navigating the Federal–State Dynamic in Air Permitting and Enforcement: Practical Strategies and Tips for EHS Professionals” at the Environmental Compliance Navigator conference on Thursday, March 19, 2026.
Air emissions permitting and enforcement actions often require facilities to navigate complex and sometimes disjointed relationships between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and delegated state or local air permitting and enforcement authorities. Differences in regulatory interpretation, permitting timelines, public participation requirements, and enforcement priorities can create uncertainty and operational risk for regulated entities—particularly when permits are modified, renewed, or challenged and when agencies’ policy priorities conflict.
In this session, Gary will explore how EPA and state air agencies interact under the Clean Air Act, where points of friction commonly arise, and how those challenges can impact facility operations and compliance obligations. Drawing on real-world permitting and enforcement experience, the presentation will highlight common pitfalls EHS managers encounter in air permitting and enforcement, including coordination issues with regulatory authorities, evolving regulatory requirements, and compliance vulnerabilities.
The session will conclude with practical strategies EHS professionals can use to better manage air permits, communicate effectively with federal, state, and local regulators, and proactively reduce air-related compliance risk.
For more information, click here.
