A number of environmental policy initiatives emerged from the last California legislative session, many of which became effective the first of the year and will impact MCCV member companies.

To help its member companies better prepare and respond, MCCV has invited Gary Lucks JD, CPEA , a principal environmental attorney and scientist with Beyond Compliance to provide a compliance update at the Wednesday, Jan 16, 2008 MCCV Meeting. The presentation is scheduled for 8:30 to 9:30 a.m (the meeting will continue until 11:30 a.m.) No pre-registration is required.

The legislative and regulatory update covers new state and federal environmental legislation as well as relevant regulatory developments.  It will also reveals some important compliance implications for commercial and industrial organizations as well as state and local government entities.

 Lucks serves as a regulatory compliance and sustainability specialist where he advises clients on multi-media environmental audits, environmental permitting, training, and regulatory analysis, and multimedia environmental management systems (EMS).  Mr. He serves on the California State Bar Environmental Legislation Committee and has published numerous articles and .

 Beyond Compliance LLC bridges EH&S compliance counseling with sustainability principles.  Beyond Compliance is a consulting organization designed to help industry transition from a regulatory compliance model to one of sustainability where pollution prevention and concepts of sustainability improve performance and reduce the costs of doing business while exceeding command and control environmental compliance standards.