The Southwest Pennsylvania Air Quality Partnership will meet on December 6 to recap the group’s yearly activities, review the past summer season and what’s ahead on the weather front for next year.

The partnership’s weatherman, DEP meteorologist Sean Nolan, will provide the overview. Other speakers will include DEP Southwest Region’s Maggie Hall who will discuss energy efficiency opportunities for business. The City of Pittsburgh’s Jim Sloss will brief everyone on Pittsburgh’s Solar Initiative. Jill Merrill from Air Compliance Consultants Inc will present information about CAIR (the Clean Air Interstate Rule).

The meeting will also include an update on the Woodstove Changeout Program. The partnership received one of only two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grants in the nation for the Woodstove Changeout Program along with an $80,000 grant from Allegheny County Health Department.

The meeting will be held on at 500 Waterfront at the Department of Environmental Protection’s office on Washington’s Landing in Pittsburgh. Breakfast begins at 8:30 a.m., with the annual meeting program to start at 9 a.m.

To attend, please sign up by December 3 with Michelle Rupert at Conservation Consultants Inc. at 412-431-4449, ext 202 or send e-mail to: micheller@ccicenter.org .

11/30/2007