As Special Counsel to the Southern States Energy Board (SSEB), Jackson Walker partner Michael J. Nasi will moderate a panel featuring South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, and former Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant at the SSEB Annual Meeting on August 30, 2022.
The conference, themed “Clean Energy: Fueling Growth & Prosperity in the South,” takes place on August 28-30, 2022, at the Charleston Marriott. Speakers will address the clean energy transition, electric mobility and innovation, nuclear energy trends, hydrogen market development, decarbonization efforts in the region, workforce readiness and training for the energy industry, and infrastructure resiliency and cybersecurity.
Mike serves as founder and Chair of our Climate Change & Carbon Management group and is also active in the Environmental and Energy practice areas. His practice spans across numerous federal and related state environmental and utility regulatory programs with a focus on environmental and utility regulatory counseling and litigation for the power sector as well as project development incentives and power market reforms. Mike is counsel for energy interests in state, regional and national litigation and policy initiatives including matters pending before several state and federal agencies and multiple Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mike has been an expert witness and speaker at hearings, energy policy events, and classrooms across the country, including the White House and the United Nations, and is published in several trade, law, and business journals on environmental and energy law. He participates on advisory boards or as counsel for several state and regional energy research initiatives including the Wyoming Energy Agency, North Dakota’s Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) Foundation Board, the SSEB, the Energy Council, and the University of Houston Center for Carbon Management in Energy (CCME).
To explore the Firm’s representation of energy clients in developing and deploying incentives and projects for the capture, transportation, utilization, and storage of carbon dioxide, visit the Energy and Climate Change & Carbon Management practice pages.
