The agenda and minutes from the A&WMA UMS Section Board Meeting for March 2015 are included; please see below.

The agenda and minutes from the A&WMA UMS Section Board Meeting for February 2015 are included; please see below.

Environmental Initiative is now accepting nominations for the 2015 Environmental Initiative Awards. Each year, this program honors projects that have achieved extraordinary environmental results by harnessing the power of partnership.

The agenda and minutes from the A&WMA UMS Section Board Meeting for January 2015 are included; please see below.

We of the Upper Midwest Section (UMS) of the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) have been selected by the A&WMA International organization to receive recognition as one of the Best Performing Sections and Chapters in Membership Development for 2014!  Congratulations to the board and chairs of the UMS, and especially to Alissa Lawler, Membership Chair!

(Note: this article is republished with permission from the Winter 2015 "BioBriEf" newsletter, from the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering [BBE], University of Minnesota.  The original article title is "BBE Undergrad Students Win Regional Competition".

Available presentations from the A&WMA UMS & CSWEA joint 2014 Conference on the Environment can be found, attached, below.  Please note: all presentations have been compressed to meet file size constraints; additionally, ten pages of photographs were removed from presentation "Session 09-02 Woodbury'sTrifecta-BOsborn.pdf" due to file size constraints.

Questions?  Contact Andrew Willing.

Changes to health-based air quality standards will impact all Minnesotans.  Join Environmental Initiative for a conversation about what all of us need to do to keep our air clean, and what we can do to help.

Undergraduate Students!

We would like to invite you to participate in the sixth annual Environmental Challenge, which is being held in conjunction with the Conference on the Environment (COE).  The COE---to be held on November 19, 2014 at the University of Minnesota Continuing Education and Conference Center (CECC) in St. Paul, Minnesota---is an annual conference jointly sponsored by two of the leading regional organizations of environmental professionals:

Great River Energy (GRE) is hiring an Environmental Administrator focused on water quality.