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Mapistry's Environmental Compliance Summit

Name: Mapistry's Environmental Compliance Summit
Start: 2024-09-26T09:00:00+0000
Location: N/A

When: September 26, 2024 at 9:00am – 9:45am

Speakers: Donald E. Sobelman

Location:

David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA

Don Sobelman is speaking at Mapistry's Environmental Compliance Summit for the panel "Environmental Enforcement Has Changed: What the Recent Supreme Court Decisions Mean for Industry" and the roundtable discussion "Best Practices for Addressing Agency NOVs/Enforcement Actions: The Attorneys’ Perspective."

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