Environmental Expo to Focus on Issues Impacting Bucks County

Five speakers who have numerous affiliations with international, regional and local environmental organizations will participate in the May 5th Environmental Expo organized by the League of Women Voters of Bucks County. Their presentations at the Middletown Township Building, 3 Municipal Way in Langhorne, will begin at 10:30 AM. The public is invited to learn about environmental issues of particular concern to Bucks County residents, including Superfund sites, PFOA, hazardous waste treatment facilities, threats to the air quality as well as threats to the Delaware River.

The program runs from 10:30 AM until 12:30 PM, and ample time will be allowed for the public to ask questions of the speakers. Following a brief question and answer period, attendees can visit tables staffed by the speakers and gather information about local environmental issues and advocacy work being done on issues of concern.

Russ Zerbo, Advocacy Coordinator for the Clean Air Council, will represent this organization founded over fifty years ago. Lise Baxter of Protect Our Water & Air (POWA) will share the experiences and continued work by this group of citizens who are fighting the location of a hazardous waste plant by Elcon in lower Bucks County. Tracy Carluccio, Deputy Director of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, will discuss the work now in its thirtieth year, of making the Delaware River and its tributary streams free-flowing, clean and healthy. Dave Meiser of Bucks Environmental Action (BEA) and Sierra Club will address the multiple contaminated sites across Bucks County. Water contamination by firefighting foam used at the Johnsville and Willow Grove Naval Air Stations will be the subject of Donna Elms’ presentation. Elms is a member of the Warminster Environmental Advisory Council, the BEA, and Penn Environment.

The League of Women Voters of Bucks County, along with more than 700 other League chapters, studied natural resources in order to develop the current positions of the national League of Women Voters. To learn more about this and other League positions, visit http://forum.lwv.org/member-resources/book/impact-issues-2016-2018-online-edition

The public is invited to this free Environmental Expo on Saturday, May 5th. For additional information, visit www.lwvbucks.org or call the League at 215-230-9986.