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After carefully reviewing applications from a wide range of deserving organizations, SWEP-CT awarded five grants earlier this year, for a total of $5524. For more details on the organizations, click HERE.

After carefully reviewing applications from a wide range of deserving organizations, SWEP-CT awarded five grants, for a total of $5500. For more details on the organizations, click HERE.

After some (not always exciting) work by our dedicated board, and with the support of all of our members, we have amended our by laws. To see the finished product, please click HERE.

SWEP-CT submitted comments to DEEP twice this fall, once in response to draft proposed language for the Remediation Standards Regulations and once in response to draft proposed language for the Environmental Use Restriction Regulations. To review the comments, please click here. Thank you to all who participated in this process!

SWEP-CT recently received this thank you note in response to one of the grants we made this year. We appreciate the thanks and encourage our members to check out all of our grant recipients here.

Please take our ten question multiple choice survey. Only your input will allow us to better serve you, our members.

You can find the survey at this link, or by copying and pasting the address below.

https://www.swep-ct.org/Sys/poll/1351

Thanks!

The 111th annual A&WMA conference will be held at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, June 25-28. There will be four days of presentations, courses and events on a multitude of environmental topics including air quality, regulation, sustainability, waste, transportation, health effects, and climate change. Bill Wehrum, EPA Office of Air and Radiation Assistant Administrator, will give the keynote presentation, and there will also be 40 panels with state directors and commissioners, 250 technical presentations and 75 exhibits, among other highlights. For early bird pricing, please book by May 23. Find complete details and register HERE.

The Connecticut Society for Women Environmental Professionals was proud to co-host “An Evening with Gina McCarthy” last month at the Connecticut Science Center. Gina served as the Administrator of the  Environmental Protection Agency until 2017, and prior to heading to Washington, she was the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. Gina’s animated speech served to remind the more than 200 environmental professionals in the audience that despite the continually shifting political tides, we all want to breathe clean air and drink safe water. With that common goal, she assured us, environmental protection will not be going away anytime soon!

The Rhode Island Society of Environmental Professionals is pleased to announce the availability of educational scholarships for the 2018 - 2019 academic year.  Two scholarships will be awarded to a RISEP member enrolled in a degree program at an accredited New England College or University and a course of study that is consistent with becoming an Environmental Professional. A third scholarship will be awarded to a RISEP member attending a Rhode Island high school, who has demonstrated a commitment to improving environmental quality, and will be accepted into the Fall 2018 academic year at an accredited New England College or University.

The purpose of these $1,000 scholarships is to recognize and support students engaged in environmental studies and programs in Rhode Island and the New England Region. The scholarships are intended to assist in pursuing educational requirements necessary to seek opportunity in professions within the environmental field. The scholarships will be awarded at the 2018 RISEP Annual Summer meeting.  Applications must be submitted no later than March 31, 2018. Please email mmiller@rrlawpc.com for a copy of the application.

We are pleased to announce that the SWEP ballot for Executive Committee members was unanimously approved!

Our newest members of the EC

Jordana Langford (Terracon Consultants, Inc.)

Bob Blake (Complete Environmental Testing, Inc.)

Jean Vossler (Antea Group)

Our new slate of officers

Co-Chair: Kathie Cyr (GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.)

Co-Chair: Jane Warren (McCarter & English, LLP)

Secretary: Beth Fortino (Winnick Ruben Hoffnung Peabody and Mendel, LLC)

Treasurer: Rachel Rosen (Burns & McDonnell)

For a full list of current members, please see the Executive Committee page.