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Madison, WI (October 16, 2013) – Michael Best partner, David A. Crass, will speak as a panelist at The Nelson Institute’s Community Environmental Forum on October 29, 2013. Crass will speak on The Sustainability of Irrigation in Wisconsin, “Wisconsin’s Groundwater Policies and Irrigation.”
The Nelson Institute Community Environmental Forum brings together speakers and audience members from all segments of the community such as businesses, state and local government, non-profit organizations, and academia, discuss pressing issues facing the environment in Wisconsin, Dane County, and Madison.
This Community Environmental Forum series will explore the science, geology, policy and law surrounding Wisconsin’s critical groundwater resource. Agricultural irrigation is expanding significantly in several regions of the state, even as concerns are increasing about its possible effects on water resources and the adequacy of regulatory oversight. This is heightening issues of competing demand among agricultural, commercial, recreational and property interests.
Crass serves as chair of Michael Best’s firm’s Agribusiness, Food Processing and Distribution Group, a leader in the firm’s Energy practice and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Crass has served as the Managing Partner of the firm’s Madison Office (2005-2008) and as chair of the firm’s Land and Resources Practice Group (2003-2005). He focuses his practice primarily in the areas of environmental and energy law, agricultural and food industries and energy project development.
About Michael Best & Friedrich’s Environmental Practice
Michael Best’s environmental team has well over a century of experience providing reliable, cost-effective environmental legal services. Members of the team have served in government and private industry. They maintain key relationships with regulators and legislators and work effectively with technical staff and environmental consultants to find innovative approaches and technologies. Their clients range from large national and regional to small local businesses, and include all manner of manufacturing and industrial clients, renewable energy clients, agribusiness clients, real estate developers, builders, public utilities and lenders.
About Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Over the past 165 years, Michael Best has earned its reputation as a leading law firm, providing a full range of legal services to clients on a local, regional, national and global basis. The firm has more than 220 attorneys in Milwaukee, Madison, Waukesha and Manitowoc, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois and Washington D.C. Michael Best’s main areas of practice include: corporate, intellectual property, labor and employment, land and resources (environmental and real estate), litigation, tax and wealth planning.
About The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies is confronting the challenge of meeting humanity’s needs in just and innovative ways while protecting the environment on which life depends through imaginative research that transcends disciplinary boundaries; through hands-on educational initiatives that bridge classrooms and communities; and through public programs that foster environmental conversations among people from business, government, academia and advocacy. The Nelson Institute is home to four interdisciplinary research centers that serve as laboratories and incubators for solutions to the world’s most critical environmental challenges.
