Eventos
Please save the dates below and register for our upcoming events, and share widely with your networks! bit.ly/CleanAirEvents y linktr.ee/cleanairwny
Our Annual Dinner returns on May 22!
- Click here to purchase your tickets!
- Clean Air is bringing back our Cena Anual en 22 de mayo! This event is extra special because we will also be celebrating our 15th anniversary as an organization! Our Annual Dinner will be taking place at our office location, Trinity Episcopal Church, 371 Delaware Avenue. We will be having a happy hour (cash bar) occurring from 5:30pm-6:15pm and then come together for dinner and awards at 7pm. Please feel free to reach out to chris murawski en chris@cacwny.org o Gia Spicola en gia@cacwny.org with any questions!
Clean Air Events
Spring 2024 Tonawanda Community Meeting – Mayo 6, 6:30pm
- Brounshidle American Legion Post 205/VFW Post 2472• 3354 Delaware Ave., Tonawanda, Nueva York 14217
- Doors 6:30pm, Juntos superamos nuestra meta de campaña de fin de año 7-7:30pm, Workshop stations 7:30-8:30pm
- Join Clean Air’s members and staff to learn about our current work in the Tonawanda-area, what’s coming up in the next few months, how to get engaged, and share with us any other environmental justice concerns that you may have. Pizza and pop will be provided; childcare, interpretation services, or other accessibility needs will be provided if requested by May 1. Children also invited to participate!
Cryptocurrency Petition Delivery Event – Mayo 14, 2024, 6-8pm
- Join Clean Air members and residents of North Tonawanda at 6pm on Tuesday May 14 to deliver a petition to the North Tonawanda Common Council during their workshop session at 6:30 en 216 Payne Ave to encourage them to pass stronger city regulations of cryptocurrency mining. Click here to sign the petition, y here for the Facebook event.
Aire limpio 2024 Mutual Aid and Emergency Prep Series
- Clean Air and Erie County Department of Health will again be offering a series of emergency preparedness trainings with a mutual aid framework in 2024. All classes will be held at Trinity Church, 371 Delaware Avenue in downtown Buffalo.
- Due to the hands-on nature of the training, these classes are only available in-person. The space is large and masks are provided and encouraged. Breakfast snacks and/or lunch is always provided. Childcare, interpretation services, or other accessibility services provided with pre-registration.
- 2024 dates –
- Junio 8 – Narcan Administration and Harm Reduction Drop-in Training, 1-2:30pm. Drop in training during the Allentown Art Festival, co-hosted by Creative Restorations. No registration required, just pop in!
Junio 11 – Full Stop the Bleed Training, 6pm-8pm, pulse aquí para registrarse
August 3 – Full First Aid Training, 9:30soy-2:30pm
September 21 – Preparing a Go Bag, 11soy-2:30pm. Class also includes a practice Stop the Bleed session from 1pm-2:30pm; you do not need to attend the morning session to participate in the practice time.
Octubre 26 – Preparing for Shelter in Place Emergencies, 11-2:30pm. Class also includes a practice Hands-only CPR session from 1pm-2:30pm; you do not need to attend the morning session to participate in the practice time.
- Junio 8 – Narcan Administration and Harm Reduction Drop-in Training, 1-2:30pm. Drop in training during the Allentown Art Festival, co-hosted by Creative Restorations. No registration required, just pop in!
Clean Air’s July General Meeting – Wednesday July 24, 2024, 5:30-7pm
- Join Clean Air on Wednesday July 24 and every fourth Wednesday every other month in 2024 for our Bi-monthly General Meeting on Zoom and in person at Trinity Church, 371 Avenida Delaware en el centro de Buffalo! This space is for our current members and supporters, as well as any and all interested in learning more about our work and getting involved with our campaigns! Interpretation services and other accessibility services provided with pre-registration. Registration link will be posted closer to the event.
- Can’t make it this time? Save the dates for the remainder of 2024 – Julio 24, September 25, and November 20.
Partner and Public Events
Wednesday May 8, 5:30-7pm – East Side Environmental Forum, hosted by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. This is a space hosted by NYS DEC where residents can raise and discuss environmental concerns in their neighborhood and work towards solutions with our environmental regulators.
- Topic this month – Brownfields and the American Axle site; contact Cindy if you want to ask for a certain topic to be covered or if you want to chat prior to the forum!
- Wednesday May 8, 5:30-7 PM, and every other month on the second Wednesday
- Buffalo Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library, 1324 Jefferson Ave
- To join virtually, or for more information, please contact Kayla Baker (kayla.baker@dec.ny.gov) o llame al 716-541-9631.
- The meeting is hosted by the NY State Dept of Environmental Conservation and will bring in different experts from other agencies depending on concerns. Clean Air will be attending as an advocate and helping to turn out the community
Grand Island – Town Board Meeting Vote on Local Law 6
- Click here to join CRED4GI’s Facebook group, o here to sign the petition they are circulating prior to the vote.
Statewide Environmental Rule Changes – Permitting Procedures and Remediation Programs
- NYS DEC has posted notice of hearings and comment periods for proposed changes to the rules for Permitting Procedures and Remediation Programs. Para más información, please see the links below. We will share more information on our blog as we review the proposals. If you would like to connect with Clean Air about any of the proposed changes, por favor reach out to Bridge.
- Permitting rule changes – https://dec.ny.gov/
regulatory/regulations/ proposed-emergency-recently- adopted-regulations/hearings- mediation-services-revisions - Hearing – virtual, Mayo 2
- Comment deadline – Mayo 10
- Remediation rule changes – https://dec.ny.gov/regulatory/regulations/proposed-emergency-recently-adopted-regulations/environmental-remediation-revisions
- Hearings – virtual, Mayo 15
- Comment deadline – Mayo 21
Other Partner and Public Events of Note
- Fecha límite móvil – Modernizaciones de resiliencia 50/50 Programa de préstamos/subvenciones
- Fecha límite móvil – Programa de formación de formadores en organización cultural del Highlander Center. Fechas en que se llevarán a cabo las capacitaciones – Mayo 7-11, Junio 26 – Julio 3, y del 31 de julio al agosto. 7, 2024. Highlander está aceptando solicitudes hasta que se cubran todos los espacios. Esta formación es gratuita e incluye alojamiento y comida., pero los costos de transporte podrían correr a cargo de los solicitantes.. Si es miembro de Clean Air y está interesado en postularse, por favor habla con uno de nuestros organizadores!
- Conferencia de Justicia y Paz de la Universidad de Niágara – Octubre 24-27, fecha límite anticipada para propuestas mayo 1
- Abril 30 – Annual Worker’s Memorial Day
- Mayo 4 – electronics recycling event in the City of Tonawanda
- Mayo 4 – US Fish and Wildlife Service speaker at Buffalo Central Library
- Mayo 8-10 – Reunión del 50 aniversario de CLUW en las Cataratas del Niágara
- Mayo 10 – webinar, The Role of the Labor Movement in the Solidarity Economy
- Mayo 15 – US Army Corps of Engineers speaker at Buffalo Central Library
- Mayo 16 – Little Sis Training for Organizers – The Corporation. Additional training dates (different topic in each) Junio 20, Julio 18, September 19, Octubre 17, De noviembre 21
- Mayo 13 – Charla sobre el libro La vida oculta de los árboles.
- Mayo 23 – WNYALF Annual Dinner
- Junio 20-22 – Partnership for the Public Good’s Uniting on the High Road conference
Comment Periods and Hearings
- Submit your comments on the proposed consolidation of Buffalo’s USPS Mail Processing Center through this survey
- Abril 30 – DEADLINE EXTENDED – submit comments on proposed Amended Remedy for Tonawanda Coke Site 109
- Mayo 2 – public hearing on proposed changes to statewide rules on industrial permits
- Mayo 6 – last day to sign CRED4GI’s petition in support of Local Law 6
- Mayo 8 – public comments due on proposed warehouse development in Grand Island
- Mayo 10 – deadline to submit comments on proposed changes to statewide rules on industrial permits
- Mayo 10 – public comments due on Brownfield Clean-up application of 235 River Road in North Tonawanda
- Mayo 15 – public hearing on proposed changes to statewide rules on contaminated site remediations
- Mayo 17 – public comments due on Draft Investigation Workplan for 23 Huron and surrounding properties in Buffalo
- Mayo 21- deadline to submit comments on proposed changes to statewide rules on contaminated site remediations