BCEQ's April ENewsletter, Happy Earth Day!

Bronx Council for Environmental Quality April 2015 Enewsletter

In honor of Earth Day, Bronx Council of Environmental Quality is launching a brand new monthly enewsletter to keep you up to  date on important environmental issues affecting the Bronx.   Whether you are planting a tree, going for a hike, cleaning up  your favorite green space this Earth Day please save some  time to read about BCEQ has been up to and other important  topics you should know about. BCEQ Water Conference 2015 The Bronx Council for Environmental Quality held its annual  membership meeting and water conference — Going  from Step 2 to Designating a Brownfield Opportunity Area:  Should BCEQ Harlem River BOA Step 2 project apply?” – on  Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at Manhattan College.  If you  missed this successful conference you can still check out the  various presentations here.   NYC’s Direct Discharge Pollution Plan Sometimes noted as MS4, the Direct Discharge Pollution  Plan is the way the city handles direct stormwater discharges  into our waterbodies. The Bronx Council for Environmental Quality  comments on the 2015 amended plan, which is still not good enough.  Read all about it. BCEQ is Hiring a Summer Associate BCEQ is currently looking to hire a Summer Associate through  the Conservation Legacy VISTA Program.  There are two projects  that the summer associate will be involved in: the annual  "Canoeing the Harlem" event, and the new local high school based  research project "Characterizing the Harlem" research project. There  is also a very large historic event – the opening of the High Bridge –  which the summer associate will have an opportunity to work on.   The dates of service are June 1st to August 3rd.  For more information  please email Phoebe Mankiewicz at psmankiewicz@gmail.com. This Summer the High Bridge is Reopening NYC Parks is currently planning to reopen the High Bridge on  July 25th, 2015!  They are looking for the community to get involved by planning events to Celebrate the High Bridge throughout the  year.  Please submit your event proposals by this Friday April 24th.  Emptying the Skies, Opens Earth Day Based on a widely republished New Yorker essay by best-selling  novelist Jonathan Franzen, Emptying the Skies exposes the rampant  poaching of migratory songbirds in southern Europe.

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