e.e.r.c.: Highlights and Initiatives: May, 1996

	Energy, Environment and Resources Center The University of Tennessee Highlights and Initiatives
May 1996 Energy, Environment and Resources Center Jack Barkenbus, Executive Director Center For Clean Products and Clean Technologies Gary A. Davis, Director Office of Communications and Publications David Brill, Director Center for Geography and Environmental Education Rosalyn McKeown-Ice, Director Oak Ridge Technology Research and Development Program Sheila Webster, Director Pellissippi Research Institute Donald Alvic, Director Pro-Dialogue Mary R. English and David L. Feldman, Directors Water Resources Research Center Tim Gangaware, Associate Director For more information call Gail Farris at 865-974-4251 or write to EERC, 311 Conference Center Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-4134. Visit our Web site at: http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/	Exchange Program. Next month, EERC Senior Research Associate Rosalyn McKeown-Ice, who directs the Center for Geography and Environmental Education (CGEE), will accompany 16 middle- and high-school teachers from the Tennessee Valley to Rostov Oblast, a city situated in southwestern Russia. The trip is part of a region-to-region exchange program McKeown-Ice helped initiate in 1991. The Rostov region of Russia and the Tennessee Valley both form watersheds for national river systems and boast leading educational institutions. Russian educators visited the Tennessee Valley in 1995 as part of the program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency. McKeown-Ice recently moved CGEE from the College of Education to the EERC to capitalize on greater opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration. Citations. In a February economic report submitted to Congress, President Clinton cited a 1995 Superfund study produced by Milton Russell, director of the Joint Institute for Energy and Environment (JIEE), and EERC Senior Research Associate Kim Davis, who serves as assistant director of the Waste Management Research and Education Institute (WMREI). JIEE and WMREI are affiliate organizations of EERC. The study, titled "Resource Requirements for National Priority List (NPL) Sites: Phase II Interim Report," is an update of a WMREI study released in 1991. It contains new information on the cost savings associated with alteration of the criteria used to select remediation strategies for Superfund sites. The EERC's Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies (CCPCT) was cited in "Mideast Oil Forever," an article featured in the April issue of The Atlantic Monthly. The article, which examines the effects of congressional budget cuts on America's development of new energy technologies, refers to a 1993 CCPCT report prepared for the Saturn Corporation on European and Japanese leadership in designing and producing environmentally superior cars. Research. Senior Research Associate David Feldman, Research Associate Ralph Perhac, and Graduate Research Assistant Ruth Anne Hanahan have undertaken a project that explores state and local efforts to establish environmental priorities. In particular, the researchers have assessed how state and local priority-setting initiatives help identify, rank, and reduce risks. They also have sought to identify ways such initiatives can be improved. The project, which is funded by WMREI and began one year ago, relies in part on a survey of individuals involved in environmental risk-assessment projects in 16 states, five localities, and one U.S. territory. The EERC research team is preparing a report on its findings titled "Environmental Priority-Setting in U.S. States and Communities: A Comparative Analysis," which will be available at the end of June. Recognition. Sheila Webster, director of EERC's Technology Research and Development Program, was selected to participate in the Tennessee Leadership Class of 1996. Tennessee Leadership is a statewide organization of women leaders from both volunteer and professional backgrounds, and it boasts members from nearly every major corporation in the state. About 40 women are selected each year to participate in the program, which was developed to help women leaders affect positive change in the fields of business and politics.

Energy, Environment and Resources Center

The University of Tennessee

Highlights and Initiatives

May 1996

Energy, Environment and Resources Center

Jack Barkenbus, Executive Director

Center For Clean Products and Clean Technologies

Gary A. Davis, Director

Office of Communications and Publications

David Brill, Director

Center for Geography and Environmental Education

Rosalyn McKeown-Ice, Director

Oak Ridge Technology Research and Development Program

Sheila Webster, Director

Pellissippi Research Institute

Donald Alvic, Director

Pro-Dialogue

Mary R. English and David L. Feldman, Directors

Water Resources Research Center

Tim Gangaware, Associate Director

For more information call Gail Farris at 865-974-4251 or write to EERC, 311 Conference Center Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-4134.

Visit our Web site at: http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/

Exchange Program. Next month, EERC Senior Research Associate Rosalyn McKeown-Ice, who directs the Center for Geography and Environmental Education (CGEE), will accompany 16 middle- and high-school teachers from the Tennessee Valley to Rostov Oblast, a city situated in southwestern Russia. The trip is part of a region-to-region exchange program McKeown-Ice helped initiate in 1991. The Rostov region of Russia and the Tennessee Valley both form watersheds for national river systems and boast leading educational institutions. Russian educators visited the Tennessee Valley in 1995 as part of the program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency. McKeown-Ice recently moved CGEE from the College of Education to the EERC to capitalize on greater opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration.

Citations. In a February economic report submitted to Congress, President Clinton cited a 1995 Superfund study produced by Milton Russell, director of the Joint Institute for Energy and Environment (JIEE), and EERC Senior Research Associate Kim Davis, who serves as assistant director of the Waste Management Research and Education Institute (WMREI). JIEE and WMREI are affiliate organizations of EERC. The study, titled "Resource Requirements for National Priority List (NPL) Sites: Phase II Interim Report," is an update of a WMREI study released in 1991. It contains new information on the cost savings associated with alteration of the criteria used to select remediation strategies for Superfund sites.

The EERC's Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies (CCPCT) was cited in "Mideast Oil Forever," an article featured in the April issue of The Atlantic Monthly. The article, which examines the effects of congressional budget cuts on America's development of new energy technologies, refers to a 1993 CCPCT report prepared for the Saturn Corporation on European and Japanese leadership in designing and producing environmentally superior cars.

Research. Senior Research Associate David Feldman, Research Associate Ralph Perhac, and Graduate Research Assistant Ruth Anne Hanahan have undertaken a project that explores state and local efforts to establish environmental priorities. In particular, the researchers have assessed how state and local priority-setting initiatives help identify, rank, and reduce risks. They also have sought to identify ways such initiatives can be improved. The project, which is funded by WMREI and began one year ago, relies in part on a survey of individuals involved in environmental risk-assessment projects in 16 states, five localities, and one U.S. territory. The EERC research team is preparing a report on its findings titled "Environmental Priority-Setting in U.S. States and Communities: A Comparative Analysis," which will be available at the end of June.

Recognition. Sheila Webster, director of EERC's Technology Research and Development Program, was selected to participate in the Tennessee Leadership Class of 1996. Tennessee Leadership is a statewide organization of women leaders from both volunteer and professional backgrounds, and it boasts members from nearly every major corporation in the state. About 40 women are selected each year to participate in the program, which was developed to help women leaders affect positive change in the fields of business and politics.

The EERC conducts analytical, unbiased, and multidisciplinary research designed to promote real-world solutions to problems in the fields of energy, environment, technology, and economic development.

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