EPA Region II Workshop: Innovative Energy Management for Water and Wastewater Utilities

September 20, 2011, St. Croix, VI
September 21, 2011, St. Thomas, VI

This energy management workshop will demonstrate how to reduce energy use and increase savings for water and wastewater treatment plants. It will provide: interactive instruction on reducing energy use by using energy management approaches; opportunities to learn from experienced utility representatives on energy performance improvements and associated cost savings; and help to identify follow-up opportunities for EPA to further assist utilities.

Link to Site > Posted on: August 30, 2011

2011 Environmental Justice Conference :One Community - One Environment

August 24-26 20, Detroit, MI

This conference is for community-based organizations, indigenous organizations, community members, advocates, city/county/state governments, colleges/universities, faith-based organizations, businesses and other stakeholders interested in learning about opportunities to work towards environmental justice in their communities.

Link to Site > Posted on: August 30, 2011

 

EPA Regional/State/Local Dispersion Modelers Workshop

June 6-9, 2011, Atlanta, GA

The 2011 Regional/State/Local Modelers Workshop is being held in Atlanta, GA, on June 6-9, 2011. This Workshop is designed to provide the federal, state, and local levels of the modeling community the opportunity to present, interact, and communicate various technical issues and solutions related to local-scale air quality modeling. A large segment of the Workshop will address issues related to permit modeling, as well as selected topics provided by Regional, State, and Local modelers.  On Thursday, June 9, a Technical Session with industrial and private sector modelers will be held to present and discuss current NO2, SO2, and PM2.5 permit modeling issues.

Please note, Monday through Wednesday of the Workshop is open only to EPA Personnel and State/local/tribal agency modelers.

Link to Site > Posted on: March 28th, 2011

Workshop on Satellite and Above-Boundary Layer Observations for Air Quality Management

May 9-10, 2011, Boulder, CO

The first workshop is being held May 9-10, 2011 in Boulder, Colorado. The focus of the first workshop is to engage in a dialogue between members of the Air Quality management community and scientists from the NASA and NOAA satellite community in areas of mutual interest within Air Quality Management (AQM) process. This first workshop will focus the discussion on areas of AQM such as; development and implementation of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), designation process for the NAAQS, development of the National Emission Inventories (NEI), State Implementation Plan (SIP) process, and interaction between Climate and Air Quality, Air Quality and Ecosystem Interactions.

Link to Site > Posted on: April 1, 2011