Region 8

Serving Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and 27 Tribal Nations

Register by Friday, September 19th, for "Children's Health and the Environment"
9/17 -- This Children's Environmental Health workshop is being organized by EPA Region 8, the Rocky Mountain Region Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, the Wyoming Department of Health and the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. The workshop will be held the afternoon of September 29th to the morning of September 30, 2008, at the the Hilton Garden Inn, located at 1150 N. Poplar Street in Casper, Wyoming. More information, including electronic registration.

EPA proposes U.S. Magnesium facility for Superfund listing
9/3 -- EPA today proposed adding U.S. Magnesium in Tooele County, Utah, to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites. Press Release.

EPA's Denver office receives American Architecture award
8/21 -- EPA's Denver headquarters, designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects, has been selected as a 2008 winner of The American Architecture award by the Chicago Athenaeum at the Museum of Architecture and Design. This prestigious award recognizes excellence in new and cutting-edge building design. More information.

Fine particulate nonattainment areas for Utah and Montana
8/19-- EPA has identified several Utah counties and the community of Libby, Montana as areas that do not meet new air quality standards for fine particulate matter (PM 2.5). This is a preliminary step towards the designation of final nonattainment area boundaries and the development of specific plans to reduce PM 2.5 pollution. States now have the opportunity to comment on EPA's proposed boundaries and to provide new information and analyses to EPA. EPA will also provide a 30-day public comment opportunity. Detailed information can be found on EPA's PM 2.5 designations page.
Utah press release and Fact sheet (PDF) / Montana press release.

"Back to school" with clean school buses in Pueblo
8/6 -- A collaborative effort between EPA, the State of Colorado, Better Pueblo, the Sierra Club, Xcel Energy and others has completed clean diesel retrofits on more than 125 school buses in Pueblo, Colo. These retrofitted buses are reducing pollution, saving gasoline, and reducing in-cabin concentrations of air toxics by more than 50%. State of Colorado press release.

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September 7-11, 2008
3rd Annual National Summit of Mining Communities
Butte, Montana

September 29-30, 2008
2008 Children's Environmental Health Workshop
Casper, Wyoming

October 1-3, 2008
Sustaining Colorado Watersheds Conference
Vail, Colorado

October 2-3, 2008
EPA/ NGWA Remediation of Abandoned Mine Lands Conference
Denver, Colorado

November 11-14, 2008
North American Lake Management Society, 28th International Symposium - Lake Management in a Changing Environment.
Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada

December 1-2, 2008
Energy Star Summit 2008
Denver, Colorado

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