136th Year... and
still on the job!
Tuesday September 19,
2004
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136th Year... and
still on the job!
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Tuesday September 19,
2004
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Sierra Club volunteer leader Ross Vincent has received a national award from the Sierra Club for work related to destruction of chemical weapons at the Pueblo Chemical Depot.
The awards were presented by Sierra Club President Larry Fahn at the club's annual awards banquet in San Francisco recently.
Vincent received the club's environmental alliance award, presented to Sierra Club leaders who have helped further environmental goals through collaboration or coalitions with other constituencies.
Vincent was recognized for putting his training as a chemical engineer to work forging partnerships to address the chemical weapons disposal problem.
He brought together local leaders from labor unions, community and church groups and the agriculture community to form Better Pueblo. Those efforts contributed substantially to the development of a local consensus about the method preferred by the Pueblo community for destroying the 2,600 tons of mustard agent in munitions stored at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, and helped to persuade the Army to use a safer neutralization-biotreatment method, rather than incineration.
Also honored Sept. 11 was Mike Parker, the Defense Department's program manager for Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives. Parker received the Sierra Club's distinguished achievement award which honors public servants for an act of particular environmental importance.