George Pataki to Co-Chair Task Force on Global Climate Change

Chadbourne Counsel Joins Governor Vilsack on Study for Council on Foreign

Relations

    NEW YORK, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Chadbourne & Parke counsel George
 Pataki, the former Governor of New York, will co-chair the Independent Task
 Force on Global Climate Change, a project of the Council on Foreign
 Relations.
     Gov. Pataki will lead a 30-person task force with Thomas Vilsack, the
 former governor of Iowa. The project team will address U.S. climate change
 policy with an emphasis on its international dimensions. It aims to report
 on its findings in the spring of 2008.
     The task force will examine the economics, science, and politics of
 climate change, and will propose a comprehensive strategy for addressing
 the challenges and seizing the possibilities that climate change creates.
     "Climate change is universally recognized as both a serious challenge
 and as a potential opportunity," noted Gov. Pataki. "Working with the
 international community, our researchers and the private sector, we can
 develop new domestic sources of clean renewable energy that will help
 reduce global warming."
     Gov. Pataki joined Chadbourne's New York office in March 2007 after
 serving three terms as Governor of New York. He has focused his practice on
 renewable energy and environmental issues, which were hallmarks of his
 administration. His initiatives as governor included the adoption of the
 Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the implementation of the nation's
 first green building tax credit and programs to enhance the production and
 use of alternative energy sources such as biodiesel, ethanol, fuel cells
 and clean coal.
     Chadbourne is one of the most visible U.S. law firms in the renewable
 energy market. It has served clients in the wind, solar, ethanol,
 hydroelectric, geothermal and biomass sectors. For example, the firm has
 worked on wind farm transactions both in the United States and abroad and
 has been tapped in some capacity by most of the major U.S. wind developers.
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