The University of Utah appointed Holland & Hart attorney James Holtkamp to the Advisory Board for Institute for Secure and Clean Energy. As a member of the Advisory Board, Holtkamp will help guide the ISCE and make suggestions on how best to integrate the results of ISCE activities with efforts in industry, government, national laboratories, and other educational institutions.
Holtkamp is a lawyer at Holland & Hart’s Salt Lake City office with extensive experience in climate change issues, carbon credit trading in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe, corporate climate change policies in the energy sector, and development of governmental climate change programs. He manages Holland & Hart’s global climate change practice groups and also is a past manager of the environmental compliance group. He is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Utah, where he teaches the Law of Air Pollution Control and the Law of Climate Change
About the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy
The University of Utah’s Institute for Clean and Secure Energy's mission is to pursue interdisciplinary, cradle-to-grave research and development of energy for electric power generation and for liquid transportation fuels from the abundant domestic resources of coal, oil sands, and oil shale. The Institute emphasizes minimizing the environmental impacts associated with the development of these resources, including reducing the carbon footprint through the use of CO2 capture for subsequent storage. The program consists of chemists, engineers, and computer scientists along with attorneys and economists who study environmental law. They hope to help produce energy that is safe for the environment by expanding understandings of energy development through experimentation, analysis, and simulations.
Mr. Holtkamp is the Manager of the Environmental Compliance Group and the Global Climate Change Group at Holland & Hart and resident in the Firm’s Salt Lake City office.