BREATHE LA Pollution & Solutions Salon Series Introduces "Greening the Ports: Clean Air Within Our Lifetime?"

BREATHE LA presents the Pollution & Solutions Salon Series June 19, 2008

• WHO: BREATHE LA, residents, consumers, businesses, the public policy community, and other stakeholders

• WHAT: The Pollution & Solutions Salon Series is a new and engaging discussion of clean air, the environment and healthy living. There will be a total of six salons in 2008 with a report of findings to be released in December.

• The first BREATHE LA Pollution & Solutions Salon,
  Greening the Ports: Clean Air Within Our Lifetime? will include a welcome by Los Angeles City Council Member Janice Hahn and a moderated panel discussion on "Greening the Ports" among members of the ports, media, elected staff, community and other stakeholders.

• WHEN: Thursday, June 19, 2008
  9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

• WHERE: Port of Los Angeles Board Room
  425 S. Palos Verdes Street in San Pedro, CA

• WHY: Six salons will be held in total, with each one exploring a different issue or aspect of the environment and how it affects residents, consumers, businesses and other stakeholders.

• FYI: There is no cost to attend and salons are open to the public. Light refreshments will be served at each salon. For more information, including a list of the other schedule salons, contact Edward Headington or call (818) 720-7181.

Breathe California of Los Angeles County (BREATHE LA) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that promotes clean air and healthy lungs through education, research and technology, and has been protecting the "Breath of Life" since 1903.