U.S. Environmental Protection Agency HQ: International Media Alert Update: TODAY: Advisory Group Releases Report on Addressing Environmental Challenges Along the U.S. - Mexico Border

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*CONTACTS:* 

Stacy Kika (News Media Only) 

kika.stacy@epa.gov 

202-564-0906 

202-564-4355 

              

Dolores Wesson (Public Inquiries) 

wesson.dolores@epa.gov 

202-564-9085 

 

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* 

June 17, 2010 

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*TODAY: Advisory Group Releases Report on Addressing Environmental Challenges Along the U.S. - Mexico Border* 

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*WASHINGTON** *- The Good Neighbor Environmental Board (GNEB), an independent presidential advisory committee to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is holding a press conference on the release of the report, "A Blueprint for Action on the US - Mexico Border."  The report develops recommendations to address challenges along the U.S. - Mexico border. Michelle DePass, assistant administrator for EPA's Office of International and Tribal Affairs, will join Nancy Sutley, chair of the
 Council on Environmental Quality, at the press conference to receive the recommendations and discuss maintaining a strong international relationship with Mexico as both countries move forward in addressing the human health and environmental challenges along the border. A roundtable discussion on the federal, state, and local stakeholder perspective will be held immediately following the press conference.

 

*WHO:             *Nancy Sutley, chair of the Council on Environmental Quality 

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Michelle DePass, assistant administrator for EPA's Office of International and Tribal Affairs 

 

Paul Ganster, chair of the Good Neighbor Environmental Board 

 

*WHAT:*            Press conference and roundtable discussion 

 

*WHEN:            *Today, June 17, 2010, 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. EDT 

*WHERE:          *Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Fifth-floor conference room) 

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center 

One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 

1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. 

Washington, D.C.  20004 

 

 

More information on Good Neighbor Environmental Board: http://www.epa.gov/ocem/gneb 

 

To view the webcast: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/mexico 

 

Note: You will not be able to view the webcast until 3 p.m. EDT 

 

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