Cal/EPA Environmental Management Systems Innovation Initiative

Purpose of the Southern California Working Group

• Provide a forum for learning about and influencing Pilot Project EMSs.
• Explore the benefits of EMSs, especially in providing better environmental performance and better information to stakeholders.
• Develop a common knowledge of EMSs amongst stakeholders.
• Provide guidance on communication to communities.
• Examine public policy issues.

Each proposed pilot project has a local and/or regional advisory group to provide input from key interested parties. Members of the local and regional advisory groups are from local, regional and state government (as well as federal where appropriate), non-governmental organizations, academia, and business sectors.

Please contact Tom Lanphar, Cal/EPA EMS Pilot Project Manager, at (510) 540-3925 or by e-mail at tlanphar@dtsc.ca.gov, for more information about the Southern California Working Group.

Past Meeting Summaries

June 24, 1999

September 9, 1999

March 13, 2000

September 21, 2000