Babst Calland joins the Pittsburgh Technology Council for its 2nd Annual PA Data Center & Energy Innovation Summit on Friday, March 27, 2026. This Summit will bring together key stakeholders to explore the intersection of innovation, energy, and critical infrastructure, highlighting Pennsylvania’s unique strengths in each of these sectors.
Attorney Justine Kasznica will serve as the moderator for the panel, “Empire of Lights: We Build It Here.” From George Westinghouse’s pioneering electrical grid to today’s manufacturing renaissance, western Pennsylvania continues to build the backbone of America’s energy system. This session showcases the regional manufacturers racing to meet unprecedented demand for grid-scale electrical components, transformers, switchgear, and power distribution equipment.
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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” during the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources’ (SEER) 54th Spring Conference, March 26-29, 2025.
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.
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