During the May 2014 meeting of the Board, two awards were granted for financial assistance to attend & present at the 2014 A&WMA Annual Conference on the Environment.  The following two individuals are presenting their respective topics, this year, at ACE.  Congratulations!

This is a solicitation for abstracts of papers to be considered for presentation at the 2014 Conference on the Environment (COE), which will be held Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at the University of Minnesota Continuing Education and Conference Center, 1890 Buford Avenue, St.

In a recent notice in the State Register [PDF], the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) announced the opening of the Environmental Assistance Grant Program Request for Proposals (RFP).

Wenck Associates, Inc. is a successful engineering, environmental, and business services firm with an excellent compensation and benefit package for our employee-owners. Founded in Minnesota in 1985, our engineering coverage spans throughout the U.S. providing a full spectrum of services related to infrastructure, water, air, land, waste, and industrial processes. Our market-leading Air Quality practice group is expanding.

The Upper Midwest Section (UMS) of Air & Waste Management (A&WMA) is offering financial support to members who will be formally participating in the 2014 A&WMA Annual Conference and Exhibition.  Those members who will be presenting a paper, displaying a technical poster, or participating in a technical planning committee are eligible to receive up to $500 in financial support.  This does include students that participate in the Student Poster Competition or in the Environmental Challenge International (ECi) Competition.

Please see attached the current Upper Midwest Section of A&WMA by-laws.  Please let either Mark Manninen or Kathryn Anderson know if you have any questions.  

Trinity Consultants, a worldwide environmental consulting firm with particular expertise in air quality, is seeking an entry level Consultant for our Lake Elmo, MN office.  Responsibilities include conducting air dispersion modeling, calculating air emissions, assembling permit applications and building client relationships.  For fur

Xcel Energy currently has four open positions for Environmental Analysts in Minnesota.  These positions are located at several of our power plants, and will support general environmental compliance efforts across all media.  There are two open positions at the Sherco Plant in Becker, one position supporting the metro area plants (officed at either Riverside in Minneapolis or High Bridge in St. Paul), and one position supporting our refuse derived fuel (RDF) plants officed at Red Wing.  We also have an open plant analyst position in Colorado, for those who are willing to re-locate.