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ST. LOUIS
REGIONAL CLEAN AIR PARTNERSHIP CLEAN UP—
WINNING TWO ENVIRONMENTAL AWARDS
Governor Holden
announced the winners of the 2002 Environmental Excellence and Pollution
Prevention Awards in August. The St. Louis Regional Clean Air Partnership
was doubly honored in that announcement. Not only did the seven-year-old
regional collaboration garner top honors in the category of “Education
and Outreach,” it also received the Governor’s top nod as “Statewide
Winner.”
The mission of the Clean Air Partnership is to increase awareness
in the St. Louis bi-state community about the negative impacts of
ground level ozone, in both health and economic terms, as well as
the steps that local citizens, individual and corporate alike, can
take to minimize the formation of ground level ozone in the St.
Louis region. The Partnership, formed in 1995 by a host of local
interests—led by the RCGA and the American Lung Association—has
become a national model, for the successful collaboration of diverse
community interests with the purpose of improving regional air quality.
Many of the partners, including the Bi-State Development Agency
and Schnucks Markets, highlighted the relationship between transit/commuter
choices and air pollution.
The Partnership is comprised of a variety of members who provide
services and technical expertise to the community at large. Led
by Partnership Chairman Chris Byrne, St. Louis County Air Pollution
Control Director, the Partnership provides daily air quality forecasts
to more than 450 participating businesses and organizations. Additionally,
daily forecasts are formulated with technical and meteorological
expertise provided by KMOV-TV, and disseminated via a variety of
media sources, as well as being posted on Illinois and Missouri
Departments of Transportation roadside signs and the Science Center’s
Highway 40 overpass. In each of the past two years, the Partnership’s
“Green Day Giveaway,” in conjunction with KMOV-TV, again culminated
in the giveaway of a low-emission vehicle to qualifying program
participants.
For more information about how your company can participate in this
very significant regional effort, please contact RCGA Environmental
Director, Mike Alesandrini, at drini@stlrcga.org
or visit the Partnership Website at www.cleanair-stlouis.com.
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