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U.S. EPA TO HOST WORKSHOPS FOR WHITE HOUSE CLIMATE CHANGE EVENT

Release Date: 10/1/1997
Contact Information: Dave Schmidt, U.S. EPA, (415) 744-1578

EVENTS:   The U.S.Environmental Protect  ion Agency (U.S. EPA) will host simultaneous public workshops in Los Angeles   and San Francisco, Calif., Tucson, Ariz., and Reno, Nev. as part of the October 6 White House Conference on Climate Change:  The Challenge of Global Warming.  Workshops at each location will include viewing portions of the event in Washington, D.C. via satellite downlink, followed by panel discussions involving local climate change experts and audience members.

WHO:      LOS ANGELES:
          Host: Felicia Marcus, Regional Administrator,
                  U.S. EPA Region 9      
          Panel chair: Mary Nichols, Environment Now

          SAN FRANCISCO:
          Host: John Wise, Deputy Region Administrator,
                  U.S. EPA Region 9
          Panel Chair: Nancy Skinner, Director, U.S. Office,
                          International Center For
                          Local Environmental Initiatives
         
   TUCSON:  
          Host: Colleen McKaughan, Air Division Associate Director,
                  U.S. EPA Region 9
          Panel Chair: Dr. David Esposito, Pima County Dept.
                          of Environmental Quality

          RENO:
          Host: David Howekamp, Air Division Director,
                  U.S. EPA Region 9
          Panel Chair: Dr. Jim Seiber, Ctr. For Enviro. Sci. & Engr.,
                          U. Of Nevada, Reno

WHEN:     1:00-4:00 p.m., October 6, 1997

WHERE:    LOS ANGELES: UCLA, Charles Young Grand Salon in
          Kerckhoff Hall, next to Ackerman Student Union Building,
          308 Westwood Plaza.
         
   SAN FRANCISCO: Golden Gate University, 536 Mission St.
          (between First and Second Streets), Room C.

          TUCSON: Pima Community College, Community Campus,
          401 N. Bonita Ave., Room A-109, Tucson, Arizona.

          RENO: Truckee Meadows Community College,
          Applied Technologies Center - Room 108,
          7000 Dandini Blvd., Reno, Nevada.

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