Obama Administration Officials to Convene Public Outreach Meeting of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force in Chicago, July 15, 2010

Chicago, IL - Obama Administration officials will hold a public outreach meeting of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force in Chicago, Illinois on July 15, 2010. The meeting provides an opportunity for senior members of the Obama Administration to hear local and regional ideas, questions and concerns about climate change impacts and to describe Federal planning efforts already underway.

In 2009, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) initiated the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, which includes representatives from more than 20 Federal Agencies. When President Obama signed the Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance, on October 5, 2009, he called on the Task Force to develop, within one year, Federal recommendations for adapting to climate change impacts both domestically and internationally. An interim progress report was released in March 2010 and can be viewed online by clicking here

Speakers:

• Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality
• Ronald Sims, Deputy Secretary of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban
  Development
• Robert Verchick, Deputy Associate Administrator of the Office of Policy, Economics,
  and Innovation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency;
• Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works
• John Balbus, Senior Adviser for Public Health at the National Institutes of Health,
  National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

1:00 pm	Welcome
1:10 pm	Opening Remarks Nancy Sutley Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality
1:20 pm	Overview of Federal Efforts Task Force Members Ron Sims Deputy Secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development Robert Verchick Deputy Associate Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency John Balbus Senior Advisor on Public Health at National Institutes of Health Jo-Ellen Darcy Assistant Secretary for Civil Works at the Department of the Army
1:55 pm	Focusing on the Region George Heartwell Mayor of Grand Rapids Michigan
2:00 pm	Great Lakes Ecosystem Panel Cameron Davis Senior Advisor to the Administrator for the Great Lakes at the Environmental Protection Agency Dr. James F. Kitchell Professor of Zoology at the Center for Limnology at University of Wisconsin Nancy Schuldt Fond du Lac Band of Chippewa Indians Andy Buchsbaum Regional Executive Director of the National Wildlife Federation
2:50 pm	Public Comments
3:20 pm	Networking Break
3:30 pm	Great Lakes Urban Infrastructure Panel Scott Bernstein President of the Center for Neighborhood Technology Lynn Broaddus Director of Environment Programs at the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread Suzanne Malec-McKenna Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Environment Dr. Jonathan Patz Professor & Director of Global Environmental Health at the University of Wisconsin in Madison
4:20 pm	Public Comment
4:50 pm	Closing Remarks Nancy Sutley Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality
5:00 pm	Adjourn