DATE:              May 8, 2008

TO:                  All Interested Individuals

FROM:             Geoff MacLaughlin, Communications Specialist

                        Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee

SUBJECT:         Reminder - May 2008 Environmental Issues Forum Featuring PA Small Business Development Center Environmental Management

                        Assistance Program is Just Days Away

         Don’t forget.  The Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee will hold its next Environmental Issues Forum this coming Monday, May 12, 2008 at 12 noon in Room 205 of the Matthew J. Ryan Building.

         The focus of the forum is the PA Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Environmental Management Assistance Program (EMAP).  EMAP Director Christopher Lynch and Associate Director Nancy Crickman will speak about the program’s services, tools and results, and examine environmental trends and issues that small businesses in Pennsylvania are facing.

         EMAP is a statewide program providing free and confidential environmental assistance to small businesses.  Such areas of assistance include compliance with environmental regulations, helping new environmental technology and alternative energy businesses with start-up issues, aiding existing businesses to “go green” and save money by reducing energy consumption and waste disposal costs, and helping find funding sources for new projects and environmental upgrades.  

         Please call the Committee office at 787-7570 if you plan to attend the May 12 Environmental Issues Forum presentation by the PA Small Business Development Center Environmental Management Assistance Program and have not already RSVP’ed.  Lunch will be provided.

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