Ross Pillari , President of BP America, delivers the keynote address Thursday morning.

Opening session of NCSE's 6th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment: Energy for a Sustainable and Secure Future.  More than 800 scientists, educators, policymakers, businesspeople, and civil society representatives participated in the conference.

Hank Habicht, CEO of Global Environment and Technology Foundation;  Katie McGinty, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection;  Hazel O'Leary, President, Fisk University and Secretary of Energy 1993-1997;  Mark Levine, Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division;  Robert Greco, Director of Policy Analysis, American Petroleum Institute, discuss opportunities for decision making that will shape the energy future of communities, regions, nations, and the world.  

Volker Hartkopf, Director, Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics, Carnegie Mellon University; Charles Groat, Director, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy; Lee Lynd, Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College; Daniel Kammen,  Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory; James Lake, Associate Director for Nuclear Programs, Idaho National Laboratory, identify opportunities provided by science and technology to shape the energy future.      

Participants listen during the first Plenary Roundtable where leaders from energy-attentive communities identify opportunities for decision making that will shape the energy future on a global scale. 

Dian Ogilvie, Senior VP, Toyota Motor Sales, addresses conference participants concerning the growing global demand of energy and how it can be met with sustainable resources.

Russell Train, the first chair of the Council for Environmental Quality and EPA's second administrator, receives NCSE's Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by Ambassador Richard Benedick (right), President of NCSE. 

Ralph Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences, delivers the John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture,   Finding Climate Change and Being Useful.

Phil Sharp, President, Resources for the Future; Reid Detchon, Executive Director, Energy Future Coalition; Sally Bingham, Director, The Regeneration Project; Phil Harter, Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law, University of Missouri; Wayne Shirley, Director, The Regulatory Assistance Project; Robert Donkers, EU Counselor for Environmental Affairs, discuss specific opportunities and strategies for conference participants to engage in the advancement of energy decision-making. 

Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Environment & Energy Correspondent, The Economist; Jay Inslee, Congressman, Washington - 1st District; Marilyn Brown, Director, Engineering Science and Technology Division; David Conover, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, U.S. DOE; Joe Romm, Executive Director, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, examine the issue of incorporating climate change into energy decision-making taking into consideration economic, social and environmental factors.