Learn How To Participate In The Air Permit Process
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is holding a Public Engagement Webinar to teach the public how to participate in the air permit approval process. The two-part webinar will be held via Zoom on the afternoons of Sept. 14 and 15, 2021, from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Webinar participants will learn about opportunities to engage in environmental issues in their neighborhood or city. Specifically, participants will learn about permit applications or renewals, the stages of environmental rule development and how to play an active role in air permits issued in their area. The information provided during the webinar will assist the public with making effective comments at the various public input stages. It will also highlight other opportunities for public input for DNR rules and permits.
A long-running project to widen the 710 Freeway hit a new hurdle after the EPA has required planners to conduct a detailed pollution study that is likely to show added truck traffic will increase pollution in an area already burdened by bad air.
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The Environmental Protection Agency issued a letter in March requiring that officials behind the 710 Freeway widening project which would add two lanes of truck traffic on either side of the freeway perform a particulate matter “hot-spot” analysis. Not completing the analysis would put the project in non-compliance with the Clean Air Act, federal officials said.
6 May 2021 - Wits University
Professor Bruce Mellado has been elected Chairperson of the Institutional Board of the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
Professor Bruce Mellado of the School of Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand has been elected Chairperson of the Institutional Board (IB) of the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment at European laboratory CERN.
The vote was casted by the representatives of 25 research institutes from all over the world, predominantly from Europe and the USA. The IB Chairperson is also a member of the management body that runs the detector.
The detector is managed, maintained and operated by several hundred scientists, engineers, technicians and graduate students.