This year Robert Bilott will be accepting the David Brewer Lifetime Achievement Award award. He will be giving an acceptance speech followed by a book signing. Robert is a partner in Taft’s Environmental, Litigation, and Product Liability and Personal Injury groups. For more than 29 years, Rob has handled a

PIELC 2019 Keynote Speakers Thursday February 28, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. in Straub Hall Eric Descheenie Eric was an inquisitive child growing up, always reflecting on himself in relation to unfamiliar others in the suburbs of Phoenix-metro, with endless questions about tradition as practiced back home in the rural “rez”

Born in Mexico City, Sergio Avila-Villegas grew up exploring in the Chihuahuan Desert of north- central Mexico, while dreaming of becoming a big-cat scientist. Sergio is a wildlife biologist graduated from the University of Baja California with a Master’s degree in Arid Lands Management (2000), and University of Aguascalientes with

David Bookbinder is Chief Counsel at the Niskanen Center, a think tank in Washington, DC, where he focuses on issues of federal carbon taxation, climate nuisance litigation, the abuse of eminent domain by oil and gas pipeline companies, and trying to curb the lawlessness of the Trump administration.   Mr. Bookbinder