Exciting Promotional Discount for Air Quality Partners on WFMZ!
You’ve been doing your share for clean air and AQP wants to help you get the attention you deserve. That’s why we’re proud to announce a special promotion through WFMZ that will give you the recognition you deserve while providing continued support for the partnership's efforts.

Sponsor Ed Hannah’s Weather Forecasts for Half the Price!
For each $1,000 sponsorship unit you get:

• 4 promo spots for the price of 2
• Great exposure with your company name and logo shown on screen at the end of Ed’s forecast
• A $340 contribution credit that supports the Air Quality Partnership

For more information please contact Chris Cocca at contact@lvbcair.org.

Study Reveals Deadly Effects of Chronic Exposure to Ozone
For the first time, a large study shows the deadly effects of chronic exposure to ozone, one of the most widespread pollutants in the world and a key component of smog.
Read the USA Today Article
Read the New England Journal of Medicine's Study

CAT Loses Lease at 60 West Broad Street, Bethlehem!
Planning Meeting Scheduled for 7 p.m., March 25!
For the past 15 years, CAT – Coalition for Appropriate Transportation has been the leading voice in the Lehigh Valley of bicycling for transportation, improving safe pedestrian access, promoting public transportation and using local trail systems.

Operating from its West Broad Street facility, called the Lehigh Valley Bike/Ped/Transit Center, CAT has accomplished a great deal to make our communities more walkable, to educate cyclists, motorists and traffic planners/engineers about safe bicycling, to ensure that public transportation is safe and pleasant, and to increase use of the trail systems in the Allentown parks, along the Lehigh Canal Towpath, the Monocacy Way, and other local public paths. Click here to read the entire article.

Visit www.car-free.org for more information on how you can help support CAT.

Do You Know an Air Quality Champion?

AQP Seeks Nominations for 2009 R. Emmet Doherty Award!
The R. Emmet Doherty Award has been presented to air quality advocates in the Lehigh Valley region since 1970. On April 1, The Air Quality Partnership will begin accepting nominations from Partner organizations for the 2009 award.

We’re looking for those people in your organization who have contributed to promoting clean air in our region in professional or volunteer capacities. Nomination submissions will be accepted at the AQP website www.lvbcair.org until the end of Ozone Season on Sept. 30. One honoree will be chosen from the nomination pool generated by you, our valued Air Quality Partners. The 2009 recipient will be announced at the Partnership's fall meeting in November.