Local leaders and businesses to be honored during the Partners for Clean Air Awards Luncheon

VALPARAISO  Northwest Indiana Partners for Clean Air will honor the Region’s top air quality leaders and winners of two college scholarships at the organization’s 2022 awards luncheon. 

Four awards will be presented in each of the following categories: Business, Municipal, Industrial, and the Mark Siminski Bicycle Award, which recognizes an individual or entity for extraordinary efforts to promote and/or participate in bicycling in the Northwest Indiana community. Winners are selected from nominees submitted to the Partners for Clean Air Steering Committee earlier this year.

Details of the meeting are as follows:
WHO:  IDEM and the Indiana Partners for Clean Air 
WHAT:  Indiana Partners for Clean Air Awards Luncheon
WHEN:  Friday, May 5, 2023 11 a.m. to approximately 2 p.m. CDT
WHERE: The Clipper Room at the Hammond Port Authority, 701 Casino Drive in Hammond.

Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) Commissioner, Brian Rockensuess, will provide an update on the agency during his keynote address. The event will feature speakers, networking, lunch, an electric school bus, a prize giveaway, scholarship award presentations, and the annual awards ceremony.

The Partners for Clean Air Luncheon and Award Ceremony is sponsored by Partners for Clean Air Gold Members (Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., Drive Clean Indiana, GAF, Gary SouthShore RailCats, Metro Recycling, Michigan City Sanitary District, NiSource, Northwestern Regional Planning Commission, and Telamon Energy) and Silver Members (Hammond Port Authority, Keramida, Inc. and Linde).