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 Municipal News Headlines:

Cans 4 Cash Recycling Challenge 2008

Bottled Water: The Impact on Municipal Waste Streams

Download the Report Download Materials and Read Press Coverage

• Cans for Cash Winners Announced at U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting  (1/24)
• Energy & Environment Resolutions Adopted at the 75th Annual Meeting of The U.S. Conference of Mayors
• Visit the new MWMA Blog
• Municipal News Headlines Issue Archive

* MWMA Municipal News Headlines will be available for download the 4^th week of June due to the US Conference of Mayors Annual Meeting in Providence, RI; we apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

• Your Municipal News Headlines for the Week of 2.20.09

The Public Place Newsletter: 
- Download the winter 2007 issue. 

The MWMA Membership Directory:

• The Municipal Waste Management Association 2009 Directory of Members (Updated 2/11/09)
• MWMA Member consulting and verification form

Continuing Education / Conference Call Schedule:

New Session Announced Soon!*

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Previous Calls

International Perspectives and Best Practices on Solid Waste and Recycling

• We heard from some of Germany’s leading environmental experts on Green House Gases, the economic impact of “going green” and explore some of their challenged and best practices

EPA Clean Diesel News:

A Q&A Conference Call on the SmartWay Clean Diesel Finance Program Request for Applications was held on, Thursday, February 26, 2009.  As part of the stimulus bill, the U.S. EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality is issuing a Request for Applications (RFA) for the development of a low-cost loan or lease program to finance the purchase of clean diesel trucks and diesel equipment.  Funding for the program would be approximately $10 to $40 million, but may change. Our goal is to create national, state, or local level low-cost loan or lease programs that would encourage the purchase of vehicles and equipment retrofitted with verified emission control retrofit devices and idle reduction devices for highway, non-road, marine and locomotive fleets.  

In a previous RFA issued September 2008, EPA awarded $3.4 million in grants to three recipients to provide low cost loans and leases for diesel trucks, which have been retrofitted to reduce diesel emissions. These innovative loans will help small trucking firms lower their fuel costs and their emissions footprint by purchasing newer used trucks and idling and emissions reduction technologies. Click to see additional information about the requirements of the existing loan program. Eligible entities can partner with financial companies that have experience managing loans and leases for diesel trucks and equipment.

Digital Downloads:

- Energy Booklets Download Booklet 1 | Booklet 2 
- Cans for Cash: City Recycling Challenge More Information | Press Release (7/13)
- Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund Conference Call Presentation
- eCycling Conference Call Presentation
- Alternative Fuels and Systems for Refuse Trucks (Parish)
- Clean Cities: Cleaning-up the Garbage, One Truck at a Time (Launey)
- Greening Garbage Trucks: New Technologies for Cleaner and Healthier Cities (Underwood)

*A New MWMA Green will be available for download the 4^th week of June due to the US Conference of Mayors Annual Meeting in Providence, RI; we apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

MWMA GREEN- Vol. 1 Issue 6; August 2008

MWMA GREEN- Vol. 1 Issue 8; October 2008

MWMA GREEN- Vol. 2 Issue 9; February 2009

MWMA GREEN- Vol. 2 Issue 10; March 2009

MainStreet Economic Recovery Center

A Call To Action: The United States Conference Of Mayor's MainStreet Economic Recovery Plan;

The United States Conference Of Mayors- MainStreet Economic Recovery Center