Transportation and Climate Change: Promoting Sustainable Growth and Prosperity

This panel, moderated by NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez, considers the nexus between transportation, environmental impacts, and energy needs. Because of the rise in oil prices and concern over global climate change, transportation is now a part of the national political discourse in a more central way than ever before and has been taken up by both parties at their national conventions. For further highlights on this panel, read the live blog.

Panelists

George W. Bilicic, Jr., Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Chris Coleman, Mayor, City of Saint Paul

Tom Darden, CEO, Cherokee Investment Partners

Senator Slade Gorton, Former Senator, State of Washington

Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution

U.S. Representative John L. Mica (R- FL), Ranking Republican Leader on the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

Moderator: Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

When

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
2:30-3:45 p.m.

Where

Cowles Auditorium
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
301 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

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More Information

For more information and disability accommodations, please call (612) 625-5340 or
e-mail cspg@umn.edu.

Co-sponsored with The Rockefeller Foundation and Brookings Institution.

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