Track II: Ambient Air/Climate Change

Panelist

Organization

Topic Area

Elvin Lang

Alabamians United for  Environmental Justice (Montgomery, AL)

Moderator, Q&A

Richard Wayland

EPA, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (RTP, NC)

EPA’s School Air Toxics Monitoring Project

Corey Masuca

Jefferson County, Department of Health (Birmingham, AL)

School Air Toxic Sampling in Jefferson County

Connie Ruth

EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality (Ann Arbor, MI)

National Clean Diesel Campaign

Catherine Maas

Chelsea Collaborative (Chelsea, MA)

Putting Federal Dollars to Work in Chelsea, MA

Wilma Subra

Louisiana Environmental Action Network (New Iberia, LA)

Toxic Chemicals Being Released from Natural Gas Compressor Stations and Human Health Impacts Experienced by Community Members in DISH, Texas

Panelist

Organization

Topic Area

Wilma Subra

Louisiana Environmental Action Network (New Iberia, LA)

Moderator, Q&A

Jane Williams

California Communities Against Toxics (East Los Angeles, CA)

Short Lived Greenhouses Gases - Opportunities to Achieve Co-Benefits in Environmental Justice Communities from Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas

Rose Kalistook

Orutsararmuit Native Council (Bethel, AK)

Climate Change in Alaska - Orutsararmuit Native Council

Sonja Favors

Alabama Department of Environmental Management (Montgomery, AL)

A State’s Approach to Climate Change - Alabama’s Response to the growing concern of EJ communities

Larry Wasserman

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community (Laconner, WA)

Swinomish Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Panelist

Organization

Topic Area

Nara Crowley

Save Lake Peigneur, Inc. (New Iberia, LA)

Moderator, Q&A

Bill Droessler

Minnesota Environmental Initiative Minneapolis, MN)

Air Quality and Environmental Justice - Aspirations and Reality in Minnesota.

Karen Monahan

Sierra Club (Minneapolis, MN)

Charles LaPradd

Miami-Dade County (Cutler Bay, FL)

Dade County Clean Diesel Repower Program for Local Farmers - Improving Air Quality for Farmers and Farm Workers.

Bill Gallegos

Communities for a Better Environment  (Huntington Park, CA)

Dirty Crude Oil:  A Trend that Threatens Communities and Threatens the Planet.

Jim Blackburn

Rice University (Houston, TX)

Legal Actions and Social Change in Environmental Justice Communities.

Presenter

Organization

Topic Area

Sue Wotkyns

Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (Flagstaff, AZ)

Tribes &Climate Change website - Features audio files of elders offering views on climate change, profiles of tribes affected by climate change, what they are doing in response, and numerous helpful links on climate change.

Mike Steinhoff

ICLEI-Local Government for Sustainability (Boston, MA)

Climate and Air Pollution Planning Assistant (CAPPA) - Assists local governments in developing plans for reducing climate and local air pollution by screening over 115 climate protection and emissions reduction strategies.

Mark Sendzik

EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (RTP, NC)

i-Tree - Estimates the ecosystem services and economic value provided by trees and other vegetation in communities of all size.

Reggie Harris

EPA Region 3 (Philadelphia, PA)

EJ SEAT and EJ ASSIST - EPA tools used to identify areas with potentially disproportionately high and adverse environmental and public health burdens.

Alan Walts

EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (Chicago, IL)

Andrew Geller

EPA Office of Research and Development (RTP, NC)

C-FERST - Community-Focused Exposure and Risk Screening Tool.

Bill Droessler

Minnesota Environmental Initiative (Minneapolis, MN)

The Diesel Emissions Quantifier - Interactive tool to estimate emission reductions and cost effectiveness for clean diesel projects.

Connie Ruth

EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality (Ann Arbor, MI)

Erika Wilson

EPA Office of Atmospheric Programs (DC)

Google Earth Tool for Cap and Trade Programs - Provides views of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) data from power plants and large industrial sources.

Lesley Jantarasami

EPA Office of Atmospheric Programs (DC)

EPA Climate Change Website

Wilma Subra

Louisiana  Environmental Action Network (Baton Rouge, LA)

CARE Roadmap - Ten step plan to improve community environment and health.

Donna Rogers

EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (RTP, NC)

AirNow - Index for reporting daily air quality and information on how clean or polluted your outdoor air is, and what associated health effects might be of concern to you.

John Bosch

Private Environmental Consultant and Advisor (RTP, NC)

New Generation of Emission Measurement Technology - new state-of-the-art monitoring devices to collect credible scientific evidence for documenting fence-line impacts from sources of air pollution.

Andrea Denny

EPA Office of Atmospheric Programs (DC)

Greenhouse Gas Equivalency (GGE) Calculator –  a tool that translates abstract measurements into terms useful to communicate GGE, reduction targets aimed at combating climate change.

Debbie Stackhouse

EPA Office of Air Quality Plannig and Standards (RTP, NC)