When: Thursday, March 22 nd, 9 am – 12:15 pm

 Where: House of the Association, 42 West 44th Street.

 Come and participate in a debate between advocates on both sides of this emerging issue for New York City. Thermal treatment, an alternative to landfills, conserves space and can convert waste into electricity, but is it worth the air pollution it produces? This debate, co-sponsored by the Earth Engineering Center of Columbia University andthe Mid-Atlantic States Section of Air & Waste Management Association, will offer insight and analysis on the issue.

 Speakers :

CHRISTINE FAZIO, Chair, Committee on Environmental Law, New York City Bar

DOUG BLAZEY, Chair, Mid-Atlantic States Section of AWMA

Moderated by Antonia Levine Bryson, Esq.

The Pro Side:

NICKOLAS THEMELIS, Director, Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University

JACK LAUBER, c onsultant for Columbia University ’s Earth Engineering Center

ROBIN DAVIDOV, Executive Director, Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority

JAMES WARNER, Executive Director, Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Auth.

The Con Side:

BARBARA WARREN, Director, New York Toxics Project for Consumers Union

NEIL SELDMAN , President of the Institute for Local Self Reliance

SUZANNE MATTEI , New York City Executive, Sierra Club

ELLEN CONNETT , Director, Fluoride Action Network Pesticide Project

The program is free of charge and open to the public. RSVP to fazio@clm.com

About the Association
The New York City Bar Association (www.nycbar.org) was founded in 1870, and since then has been dedicated to maintaining the high ethical standards of the profession, promoting reform of the law, and providing service to the profession and the public. The Association continues to work for political, legal and social reform, while implementing innovative means to help the disadvantaged. Protecting the public’s welfare remains one of the Association’s highest priorities.

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