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“In 2005, the Chinese were hardly buying any ivory. Now they account for over half of all sales,” one researcher says.
The growing number of Chinese tourists in Egypt has increased significantly in the past decade as the two countries increase commercial ties and air links. In 2001, there were only about 100 Chinese expatriates in Egypt. By current estimates, there are now over 60,000 Chinese expatriates and 100,000 tourists a year.
Illegal Ivory traders told researchers that Chinese expatriates and tourists were their principal buyers. One vendor said groups of Chinese buyers would often spend $50,000 on ivory during a single bargaining session.
Lax enforcement and the influx of heavyweight buyers is reversing gains made against Egypt’s illegal ivory trade in the early part of this century and is now fuelling the poaching of Africa’s elephants. However, Egyptian tourism was down at least a third in 2011 due to political instability associated with the uprising that led to the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak last February.
Egypt still remains a major hub in the global ivory trade. Investigators who surveyed two of the country’s main tourist centers found ivory craftsmen and vendors operating with little risk of arrest.
“Egypt is one of the largest illegal markets for elephant ivory in Africa,” the study noted. “Tusks are smuggled in, mostly through Sudan, and sold to ivory workshops in Cairo . (where they are) openly carved and displayed without any prosecution ensuing.”
Trade in ivory was banned in 1990. An Egyptian ministerial decree issued in 1999 makes it illegal to import, export, or possess ivory products, or to offer them for sale.
“The trade in ivory (in Egypt) is completely illegal without a permit, which has never been given,” endangered wildlife consultant Esmond Martin, the lead author of the report says. “Unfortunately, there is absolutely no law enforcement.”
While customs officers have occasionally seized elephant tusks at Cairo airport, there have been no documented confiscations of ivory items from retail outlets since 2003.
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Some students just don’t do well in high school â many struggle with bad grades or have discipline problems, and others choose to drop out. But there’s also an alternative that some students are taking advantage of: A few school districts are opening up specialized schools inside shopping malls.
Both Justin and Avalanna played board games, signed autographs for each other. Routh was even able to lay her hands on the trademark Bieber hairdo and style it her own way.
“That was one of the best things I have ever done,” Bieber later tweeted. “She was AWESOME. Feeling really inspired right now.” Another tweet read, “Best part of my day.”
Thanks to the Jimmy Fund, Routh got a pretend marriage to Bieber last year to earn the moniker “Mrs. Bieber.” Her family created a Facebook page dedicated to somehow arranging a meeting between Routh and Bieber, and it came to be three days after Bieber tweeted the link to the WHDH segment to his more than 17 million followers.
Routh has fought against an aggressive and rare form of cancer known as ATRT for most of her short life. The disease is diagnosed in less than 30 cases per year.
Avalanna was diagnosed at 9 months old with the rare brain cancer and has undergone many surgeries over the course of her life. Last August, she put a smile on everyone’s face, when she joined the WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon and proclaimed her love for Justin Bieber. In fact, Avalanna had the chance to “marry him” thanks to the Jimmy Fund.
The little girl has loved Bieber longer than she’s been alive, as she joked during her “date” with him. Asked how long she has been a Bieber fan, Routh replied, “Seven years. No, 80. Eighty years.”
”It’s wonderful,” Aileen Routh, Avalanna’s mother said. “It was another fun moment.”
Like the rest of the legion of Bieber fans, Routh was afflicted with a certain condition sweeping the world on Valentine’s Day.
“I got Bieber fever,” she told NBC News before smiling.
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Release Date: 01/11/2012Contact Information: David Deegan, 617-918-1017
(Boston, Mass. – Jan. 11, 2012) – Central Connecticut State University was among five schools nationwide to win the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2011 Game Day Challenge, a competition among colleges and universities nationwide with the goal of lowering waste generated at college football games and increasing participation in waste reduction programs.
As part of the challenge, seven schools in New England and more than 75 schools across the nation designed a waste reduction plan for one 2011 regular season home football game, measured their results and submitted them to EPA.
“When academic institutions reduce, reuse, and recycle at their ball games, they can lead the way for the rest of the campus in showing they have the tools and resources to reduce waste across all campus activities and beyond,” said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA’s New England office.
Central Connecticut State University won in the Waste Minimization category, meaning they had the least amount of waste generated per attendee. Each attendee generated an average of .059 pounds of waste at the game. Yale University came in second with an average of 2.19 pounds of waste per attendee.
“The bottle bill in Connecticut makes a difference and I realized our food service uses tissues for everything, no trays or heavy dishes,” said Domenic Forcella, director of environmental health and safety at Central Connecticut State University. “Plus, there’s a limited menu so there’s no popcorn boxes and basically everything we serve comes wrapped in tissue.”
Other schools that participated in New England were Harvard University; the Campus Sustainability Initiative at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst; Brown University; the University of Rhode Island, and Bryant University.
Other categories and the winners were:
Diversion Rate Champion (Highest combined recycling and composting rate) – University of California, Davis
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Champion (Greatest greenhouse gas reductions from diverting waste) – University of Virginia
Recycling Champion (Highest recycling rate) – University of Virginia
Organics Reduction Champion (Highest organics reduction rate) – Marist College
Participating colleges and universities, including 2.7 million fans, diverted more than 500,000 pounds of waste from football games this fall, preventing nearly 810 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to the annual emissions from 159 passenger vehicles.
These colleges and universities and their fans took one step further to green the gridiron and help build awareness around the importance of recycling, reducing, and reusing. In 2010, Americans kept 85 million tons of waste out of landfills by recycling and composting, boosting the national recycling rate to 34 percent. Out of the 165 million tons of waste that went into landfills, food scraps made up 20 percent. Food is the single largest waste stream that ends up in landfills.
To address food waste, EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge under the Sustainable Materials Management program encourages schools to donate surplus and wholesome fresh food from sporting venues and cafeterias, instead of throwing it away. EPA is hosting a webinar on this topic on Thursday Jan. 19 for colleges and universities. Those who want to participate can go to http://www.epa.gov/osw/rcc/web-academy/.
The competition was sponsored by EPA’s WasteWise program, a voluntary program through which organizations eliminate costly municipal solid waste and select industrial wastes, benefiting their bottom line and the environment.
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Ways to catch a grouper on Key West fishing charters
The best place to fish for grouper are the Florida Keys, particularly Key West, the Bahamas and down via the Caribbean Islands. Grouper are regarded bottom fish. They like to remain closer towards the bottom and close to rocks and solid structures so they can hide or escape into them. You possibly can come across grouper in water as shallow as 10′ but they nevertheless like to remain closer towards the bottom. Ship wrecks are a good place to find grouper. Grouper are a white meat fish and they’re extremely tasty to eat.
Goliath Key West fishing grouper are protected in Florida waters. Which is, it is actually illegal to catch goliath grouper jew fish and not release them. Grouper frequently like warmer water. Gag grouper, red grouper and Nassau grouper in specific like water temperatures 65 to75 degrees.
As mentioned, grouper are frequently a bottom fish. They’ll still come close towards the surface for a tasty smaller fish. Normally, after you fish for grouper you are going to utilize quite heavy tackle and you are going to need to drop it towards the bottom. They like live bait but will strike on cut bait. Yet another technique to fish for grouper, particularly in shallow water, about ten to 15 feet is to by ‘trolling’ which signifies cruising at a very low speed although dragging your line behind the boat. Grouper, particularly smaller grouper in shallow water will come up and strike the bait.
The general rule with grouper is rather intuitive. Smaller grouper live in shallow water and take smaller bait. You possibly can fish for grouper in water as shallow as 10′. Larger grouper for example the enormous Warsaw grouper are in deeper water, as deep as a variety of hundred feet deep. Ship wrecks are wonderful for deep grouper fishing.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The producers of Broadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” and a trade association representing the show’s former director, Julie Taymor, have settled their legal disputes over her firing and withdrawn breach of contract claims, the groups said on Thursday.
Under the agreement, Taymor will receive full royalty fees for her services as a director through the show’s duration, as well as some fees toward her work as a collaborator.
Producers at 8 Legged Productions LLC and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, which represents Broadway directors and other professionals, also agreed that Taymor’s services as a collaborator on the project were completed and she has no further involvement in the show.
“The litigation between us is over, and we are hopeful that any remaining issues between the producer and Ms. Taymor regarding her role as author can also be resolved to the satisfaction of all,” said Karen Azenberg, president of the SDC, in a statement on Thursday.
Tony-winning “The Lion King” director Taymor worked on the original book for the “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” musical, before being fired from the production in March 2011.
She filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the “Spider-Man” producers last year, saying they made “unauthorized and unlawful use” of her written works.
Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris, producers of the show, filed a counter-suit against Taymor last month, accusing her of jeopardizing the production of the show by “developing a dark, disjointed and hallucinogenic musical.”
“Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” had a rocky start with cast injuries and opening night delays, but since then has been steadily packing in audiences on Broadway, making a record-setting $2.9 million from Christmas to New Year’s Day, according to figures from industry website The Broadway League.
Based on one of Marvel Comic’s most famous heroes, the Broadway production cost more than $70 million to bring to the stage with music by Bono and The Edge, and was reworked after Taymor was fired.
(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
Katherine Rosman explains why elevators are getting much more sophisticated and can now choose who they carry and what floors they stop at based on an employee’s rank. Photo from Getty Images.
The “elevator pitch” is a staple of office lore: a go-getter’s well-prepared catchy idea that is ready for any chance meeting with the top boss. Well played, it impresses fast and sends an employee’s career rocketing. Fumbled, the elevator ride is an excruciating 90 seconds.
New elevator systems and technology are making the pitch harder than ever—and upending the delicate rules of elevator etiquette.
Elevators now route employees, sometimes according to rank. They can help corporations keep track of who is in the office and who isn’t. They can be programmed so that a germophobe can simply wave an ID card in front of a reader and be shuttled to the proper floor without actually touching a button. They can redirect an unsuspecting employee to a different floor at the request of the boss.
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Behind the changes is an increasingly common dispatch system that the two companies that dominate the industry, Otis Elevator Co. and smaller rival Schindler Elevator Corp. have installed in about 200 mid-to-high-rise buildings around the country. Employees select their floor on a keypad in the lobby and are sent to board a specific elevator. The dispatch systems result in fewer people per car and fewer stops, and can be configured to suit a company’s particular needs.
A dispatch system leaves Rudy Loo, a New York financial industry employee, riding mostly with the people who sit near him, and with no reason to dream up elevator pitches. He can talk to fellow riders any time. “And most people are on their BlackBerry in the elevator anyway,” he says.
In downtown Denver at 1999 Broadway, a 43-story building, a law firm requested that the elevator have the capability to keep its attorneys away from employees of an office of the Internal Revenue Service with which it shares an elevator bank, says Jeff Blain, a Schindler sales manager who worked on the project.
At the 55-story Bank of America Building, at One Bryant Park in New York City, elevators can let bank VIPs ride separately from rank-and-file staff, says Michael Landis, Schindler vice president of marketing. Many of the bank’s senior executives work on the 50th floor and are typically directed to their own elevator anyway, making the technology unnecessary. “But it’s one of the features that they particularly liked and its one of the key features that won us the contract,” Mr. Landis says.
A Bank of America spokesman says the bank isn’t utilizing the feature. “There is an executive floor but there is no executive elevator. The ride up or down can be shared by company leaders and people making deliveries,” says T.J. Crawford, the spokesman.
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Elevator etiquette is it rude to fix your gaze on your BlackBerry? Will your colleagues smirk if you pitch the boss? Should you ride up extra floors to maximize face time?
—Otis research
The elevators at the 13-story Curtis Center in downtown Philadelphia, are built so the most senior executives can punch into the computer that they would like to see certain employees upon arrival. When employees swipe their ID cards to call the elevator in the lobby, they can be rerouted to the boss’s floor.
“We are able to group passenger so it’s more like a limousine,” Mr. Landis says.
That doesn’t help social anxiety: In the elevator, is it rude to fix your gaze on your BlackBerry? Will your colleagues smirk if you pitch the boss? Should you ride up extra floors to maximize face time?
Andy Dunn, chief executive of New York-based clothing company Bonobos.com, recently was chatting with a colleague on his office elevator. When he noticed other people were buried in their iPhones, he quieted down. “I felt like ‘Gosh, we’re distracting all these people who are looking at their phones,’ ” he says.
The centralized dispatch systems—which Schindler calls Destination Dispatch and Otis calls Compass Destination Management System—represent the most fundamental upgrade in commercial elevator travel since the late 1950s when automation began to replace manual elevators operated by men in brass-button uniforms. Building managers have been seeking more efficient ways of moving employees to help combat what are known as “underelevatored” buildings or buildings that have seen a sharp increase in the number of occupants. New buildings benefit from the efficiency of a dispatch system because in some cases it lets less space to be dedicated to elevators.
When new systems aren’t available, buildings can also try diversionary tactics to distract people waiting for the elevator. They put mirrors inside elevator cabs and around lobby elevator banks in the hope that people would be distracted by analyzing their appearance. In the past, they also mounted televisions on lobby walls.
In many elevators, the Door Close button works only when switched to a special mode used by firefighters during a rescue. “It’s only there to keep you occupied,” explained Schindler’s Mr. Blain, while walking through its elevator operations at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in midtown Manhattan earlier this week.
For anyone who works in a building with dispatch systems but lives in a building with a conventional set-up, there is potential for embarrassment. “At home, oftentimes I get into the elevator and don’t push a button,” says Jordan Barowitz, a spokesman for the Durst Organization Inc., which co-owns and manages the Bank of America building.
The tech industry—built on the idea that anyone with a good idea can rise—is shy of elevator moments. Many venture capital firms are in low-rise areas such as Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif., and in Manhattan’s Union Square/Flatiron District—neighborhoods short on skyscrapers. Tim Chang, a partner at Norwest Venture Partners in Palo Alto, Calif., says he has never been pitched in an elevator. But he has been pitched in his dentist’s office. And in the restroom. “Awkward,” he says.
Harvard Business School has an “Elevator Pitch Builder” for alumni on its website. Christine Sullivan, the school’s director of alumni, career and professional development, says that in a “new 140-character world where everything is reduced to a sound bite it’s more important than ever to be able to deliver a clear and concise message.”
Next week, at a conference in Atlanta, Black Enterprise, a media company, will present the winner of its Elevator Pitch Competition. Finalists (including the maker of a martini-glass cover that prevents spillage while dancing and a creator of African-American-themed stationery) produced videos of less than two minutes explaining their business vision and why they deserve the $10,000 investment prize.
Not that an elevator is necessarily the best place to give your elevator pitch. Charlie O’Donnell, a principal with a seed stage venture capital fund, First Round Capital, says you never know who you’re riding with and have little time to waste.
So, he advises, “Stay in the lobby in front of the elevator door. That’s your optimal pitch place.”
Write to Katherine Rosman at katherine.rosman@wsj.com
A 2,900-square-foot house with four bedrooms, two full baths and two partial baths on 0.1 acre in the Washington Park neighborhood
DETAILS: This Tudor home has a second story addition with two master suites and a laundry room. The private patio has a built-in gas grill.
SCHOOL: Steele Elementary School, which received a rating of eight out of 10 on GreatSchools.org, is the closest public school in this district.
FOR THE KIDS: There’s a tree house in an apple tree in the backyard, with a sandbox below. Washington Park is less than a mile away
FRIDAY’S FORECAST: Partly cloudy, high of 59 degrees.
SOURCE: Ronald Buss, Coldwell Banker Previews International, (303) 808-5390, ron@b2brokers.com
A 3,100-square-foot house with five bedrooms and four baths on 4.6 acres 30 miles northeast of Sacramento
DETAILS: This Tuscan-style home has a gourmet kitchen with custom cabinetry, granite counters, Travertine tiles, and two dishwashers.
SCHOOL: The closest public elementary school is Placer Elementary, which received a rating of nine out of 10 on Greatschools.org.
FOR THE KIDS: The tree house is nestled in an oak tree and has a window and a hammock inside. The property also includes a play structure, a pond, and a bonus room, and there’s a lake two miles away.
FRIDAY’S FORECAST: Chance of rain, high 60 degrees.
SOURCE: Leslie Griffith, Connect Realty, 916-899-0422, leslie_griffith@msn.com
A 3400-square-foot home with five bedrooms and 2½ baths on about 0.4 acre.
DETAILS: This 1929 colonial has a 30-foot kitchen/family room, as well as a sunny music room and perennial gardens.
SCHOOL: The closest public elementary school is Toll Gate Grammar, which received a rating of seven out of 10 on GeatSchools.org and is accessible from a gate on the property.
FOR THE KIDS: A tree house was built by the homeowner, an architect. It has two levels and a canvas roof.
FRIDAY’S FORECAST: Sunny, high 52 degrees.
SOURCE: Catherine Nemeth with Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty, 609-462-1237, rine43@aol.com
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For catching wahoo You’ll desire a quite sturdy rod and reel. You would like to use 30 to 50 lb. test line and about a 4′ 80 to 100 lb. steel leader. Don’t attempt to use a leader created of mono, those sharp teeth will rip it to bits. Use a brief shank 10/0 or 12/0 hook. Some swear by a significantly smaller hook, as modest as 4/0. A wahoo’s teeth are razor sharp and its mouth is difficult. Be certain your hooks are sharp so they can penetrate his mouth. When you depend on the captains running the Key West fishing charters for offshore fishing, they’ll care for all that, such as the fishing licenses for you. Anglers complain about losing wahoo all of the time.
Lures are extremely well known with anglers who fish for wahoo. They appear to prefer black and dark red blends. Don’t use light colors like blue, white or pink, and so on.
You may attract wahoo by casting out teaser lines with baits on them. You would like to troll quite speedy, 10 to 15 knots if the sea is not too choppy, be sure your speed is constant though. The issue with true fish teasers is that trolling that speedy will tear them apart. Many people swear by Coke cans on lines about 8 apart. Run 2 to 4 lines out about 60 feet out. When the wahoo start off hitting the cans get your baits or lures around. The Coke cans will not last extended.
When that fish hits your line he’s gonna hit it difficult, like at as high as 60 mph. He’ll run appropriate up behind it and hit it true swift. When you get a hit but do not hook it, he may have ripped your bait in half. Stop the boat and open the no cost drag to let the bait fall. Regularly he’ll know he ripped it in half and go back for the second half. When he realizes he’s hooked he’s gonna put up over a sporting fight. He will not dive like a marlin or perhaps a tuna but he will run. Maintain the boat in gear and moving to ensure he can’t get slack in the line. You do not want him to shake the hook out of his mouth.
Whenever you get him to the boat be cautious. Those teeth are true sharp and he’s true speedy and robust. Pull him by way of a door or gaff him but keep his mouth under manage.
You’ll have extra enjoyable and will not must acquire all that gear in case you book a private charter on on the list of greatest Key West fishing charters for deep sea fishing. Make sure you ask how several occasions they’ve caught wahoo. If they say 2 or three or less, look for yet another fishing charter.
Release Date: 01/13/2012Contact Information: Kris Lancaster, (913) 551-7557, lancaster.kris@epa.gov
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(Kansas City, Kan., Jan. 13, 2012) – The University of Kansas Hospital of Kansas City, Kan., will be honored next week by EPA for reducing its volume of solid waste through innovative recycling programs. EPA will present a 2011 WasteWise Gold Achievement Award for waste reduction in the workplace.
The hospital has made significant strides in protecting the environment through recycling, waste reduction, environmentally preferable purchasing, education and community involvement. Since 2010, the hospital has diverted more than 540,000 pounds of solid waste from local landfills.
WasteWise is a free, voluntary EPA program that helps businesses reduce their environmental impact and find cost savings through innovative waste reduction and recycling activities. The program provides an online reporting system called Re-TRAC, which allows members to track waste generation and reduction activities, generate customized reports, and calculate their greenhouse gas emission reductions and environmental impacts.
A tour of the University of Kansas Hospital, at 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, in Kansas City, Kan., will be held for news media and public from 12:15 to 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 17. A news conference will follow at 1:00 p.m. at the same location.
WHAT: Recognition of the University of Kansas Hospital
WHEN: 1:00 p.m., January 17, 2012 (Tour of the hospital will begin in the main lobby at 12:15 p.m.)
WHERE: Rieke Auditorium, 39th Street and Cambridge Avenue, Kansas City, Kan. 66160 (Parking is available at 39th Street parking garage.)
WHO: EPA Region 7 Deputy Regional Administrator Mark Hague, University of Kansas Hospital President and Chief Executive Officer Bob Page, University of Kansas Hospital Vice President of Operations Dwight Kasperbauer, and Kansas Department of Health and Environment Public Service Liaison Rodney Ferguson
The University of Kansas Hospital is affiliated with the University of Kansas Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions, and its various research projects. The facility contains 576 staffed beds (plus 24 bassinets) and serves nearly 27,000 inpatients annually.
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Grouper are bottom feeders. The rig you use for grouper fishing really should be rather heavy. You would like a very good powerful rod with a reel which could take a very good tough drag and 60 to 80 lb. test line. You would like a massive hook, 5/0 to 10/0. You’ll prefer to put a 6 to 8 ounce egg weight on the bottom with about 2′ to 3′ of powerful steel leader 50 to 100 lb. test. For bait a very good sized pinfish or perhaps a grunt should really do fine. Bear in mind, bigger Key West fishing bait & deeper water for bigger fish, smaller bait and shallow water for smaller fish. Of course the smaller fish are easier to catch. If you are on one of the Key West fishing charters just tell them you are after grouper and they’ll set you up with the right tackle for the job.
You would like to find out which way the tide or current is running. You would like to find a location where it’s running toward the structure. If you possibly can uncover a smaller rock pile away from a larger structure that’s preferable, so the grouper can’t run for the larger structure. Drop your line in and let it drift up real close towards the structure, right in front of the fish.
When a grouper hits the bait he’ll usually hit it pretty tough and fast. He’ll try to swallow the bait almost instantly which works in your favor. Immediately after he hits the bait he’ll duck under a rock or some structure like part of a sunken ship if he can. You really should be positioned so that you possibly can immediately pull him away from his refuge. Once you’ve got him out in the open you really should be able to get him into the boat. This is not a case where you desire to let him run if you possibly can help it. He’ll run right into the rocks and chances are, you’ll never get him out.
If you’ve never been grouper fishing then do yourself a favor. Get yourself onto one of the Key West fishing charters that go out grouper fishing every day. They’re able to help you set up your rig and catch that massive grouper. They’ll even take care of your fishing license and make sure you are legal limits are OK for you.
Release Date: 01/23/2012Contact Information: David Deegan, 617-918-1017
(Boston—January 23, 2012) – Richard Emberley, Plant Operator of the Franklin Pierce University, N.H. Wastewater Treatment Plant is being honored with a "2011 Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator Excellence Award" by EPA. Mr. Emberley has been the Chief Plant Operator of the Franklin Pierce University Wastewater Treatment Plant since 2000. He has done an outstanding job over the years.
The EPA Regional Wastewater Awards Program recognizes personnel in the wastewater field who have provided invaluable public service managing and operating wastewater treatment facilities throughout New England. The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services was instrumental in Mr. Emberley’s nomination.
“The professionals operating these wastewater treatment plants, as well as the municipalities and the state environmental agencies that support them, are essential to keeping our environment healthy by protecting water quality. I am proud to acknowledge Mr. Emberley’s outstanding contributions to help protect public health and water quality for so many years and to give him the credit he deserves,” said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA’s New England Office.
EPA’s New England office will formally acknowledge Mr. Emberley for his fine work during the annual New England Water Environment Association Conference at the Boston Copley Marriott Hotel on January 25th.
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