DIALogue Tele-Seminars
Environmental Regulation Issue Jam
In a recent ACCE survey, more than 60% of respondents ranked new environmental regulation and mandates as one of their chamber’s top public policy issues. Environmental regulations are important for quality of life and community sustainability; however the changing regulatory landscape can make compliance difficult and may inhibit economic development.
Join us for this Environmental Regulation Issue Jam to discuss the latest regulations in air quality, CO2 emissions, alternative energy, recycling and other important environmental topics. Kathryn Klaber, Executive Vice President of Competitiveness at the Allegheny Partnership and facilitator for the Issue Jam, will provide an overview of the latest regulatory trends, as well as:
• Provide a broad overview of state and local environmental regulation landscape.
• Present trends in environmental regulation.
• Facilitate active discussion about environmental regulation among call participants.
Issue Jams are a forum for shared learning, so come prepared to share your perspective and local experience.
Speaker
Kathryn Klaber
Executive Director
At the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, Kathryn Zuberbuhler Klaber
has led projects to improve the region’s business climate. In this role, she works with businesses
and organizations across the Commonwealth to lower the most uncompetitive of Pennsylvania’s
business taxes, most recently by mobilizing the CompetePA Coalition. She works with
businesses, and local, state, and federal officials to address air quality and other environmental
challenges facing the region. In 2005, this effort resulted in fewer air quality nonattainment
areas in southwestern Pennsylvania and the introduction of measures to limit transport of air
pollutants into the region. She was instrumental in working with the City of Pittsburgh and
Allegheny County to merge purchasing functions, a move that will garner significant savings for
Allegheny County and City taxpayers.
Prior to coming to the Conference, Ms. Klaber worked ten years for the international
environmental, health and safety consulting firm, Environmental Resources Management, Inc.
(ERM), first at the company’s headquarters in Philadelphia, then in her native Pittsburgh. Her
project work consisted primarily of mergers and acquisitions, environmental management
systems, air quality, and other facilities engineering engagements. She supervised multinational
projects, primarily for Fortune 1000 companies, involving staff from across ERM’s 130 offices.
In Southwestern Pennsylvania, Ms. Klaber worked with regional companies on air quality
compliance, Brownfields redevelopment, accidental release preparedness, and myriad of other
environmental projects. During her last three years with the firm, Ms. Klaber managed the
Pittsburgh regional office, responsible for all aspects of the regional practice including business
development, product delivery, staffing, and financial management.
Ms. Klaber completed her Masters in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon
University. She received the Enterprise Award for Entrepreneurship at CMU for her business
plan for an innovative environmental reporting and metrics company. She was elected by her
peers as a President in the school’s archetypical Management Game. She received her
undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from Bucknell University. She serves on the
Board of Directors for the Greater Pittsburgh League of Women Voters and was appointed by
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary McGinty to Pennsylvania’s Air
Quality Technical Advisory Committee. Ms. Klaber resides in Sewickley, Pennsylvania with her
husband and two boys.