Reducing Residential Wood Smoke

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EPA Webinar: Reducing Residential Wood Smoke: Is It Worth It?
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2013
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 PM (Eastern); 2:00 – 3:00 PM (Central); 1:00 – 2:00 PM (Mountain);
12:00 – 1:00 PM (Pacific); 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Alaskan)

Reducing Residential Wood Smoke: “Is it Worth it?”
Join us September 19th at 3:00 PM EDT to find out whether or not an on-bill utility burn-ban subsidy program or modifications to a wood stove replacement grant program will significantly reduce fine particle pollution in the Puget Sound area. The findings are the result of a joint project between the US EPA, the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (EFC), and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA). The project examined the cost benefit of proposed wood smoke reduction programs for the Tacoma-Pierce County PM2.5 nonattainment area. Jen Weiss of the EFC and Kathy Strange of PSCAA will present.

To register, please email Leigh Herrington at herrington.leigh@epa.gov

Jen Weiss is a Senior Finance Analyst at the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, focused on financial models and mechanisms that can be used by universities, non-profits, and other organizations to encourage the implementation of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. Jen holds a Master of Environmental Management degree from Duke University, an MBA from the University of Michigan, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of California in San Diego. Jen has over 13 years of consumer and small business banking experience including commercial lending, product management, and online services.

Kathy Strange is the Technical Analysis Manager at the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency in Seattle, Washington. She manages the Monitoring and Planning & Analysis teams. Along with her teams and a community-based stakeholder group, she’s worked to develop strategies that improve air quality in the Agency’s PM2.5 Tacoma-Pierce County nonattainment area. Her technical background includes a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and a M.S. in Environmental Health (Public Health).

Visit www.epa.gov/burnwise to find additional tools and information on wood smoke reduction programs.


Toni Colón
Communications Specialist
U.S. EPA, Office of Air & Radiation,
Office of Air Quality Planning & Standards,
Outreach & Information Division,
Community & Tribal Programs Group
Tel: (919) 541-0069/Fax: (919) 541-0942
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