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Volume XXI, Number 4

Winter 1996

Artwork by fifth-grader Julie Himmes

Education Program Has Opened Students' Eyes to Their Environment for a Decade
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Employees of the Month
Director Gade Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration
"Blue fish", Blue Thumb, and Billboards on Agenda as Delegates from 16 States Consider Nonpoint Pollution
Bureau of Land Digs in on LUST Sites, Implements Streamlined Cleanup Approach in 1996
Reauthorized Safe Drinking Water Act, Simplified Appraches to Regulations High Points for Bureau of Water
Agency Has New Great Lakes Coordinator
"...And We'd Like to Thank All Those People Who..." Illinois EPA Holds Fifth Recognition Ceremony
37,000 Illinois Fifth Graders Gearing Up for 10th Version of Annual Environmental Education Program

Brownfields Conference for Local Officials on Redeveloping Former Industrial Sites Attracts Fifty Communities
Illinois "Great Printers" Ink Agreements to Practice Pollution Prevention
Illinois, Five Other States Honored For Efforts at Regulatory Reform
Concerns with Ever-Larger Swine Production Operations Prompt Legislative Action to Provide Environmental Oversight
Legal Counsel Side-Bars
Seventh Annual Pollution Prevention Conference Focuses on Latest Techniques and Technologies
Illinois EPA Shares its Diverse Activities with Viewers of Local Access Television Systems
Illinois EPA's Bureau of Air Continues to Work on Ozone and Other Emissions Problems