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• AeA State Environment Overview
• AeA International Environment Overview

AeA is currently following these environment policy issues across the U.S. and overseas:

• Energy Efficiency
• Green and Clean Technologies
• Mandatory Labeling
• REACH
• Recycling Requirements
• RoHS (Restrictions on Hazardous Substances)
• WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment)

AeA International Environment Compliance Programs Provide Members with In-depth Overview of Global Environmental Regulations
On May 8, 9 and 13, AeA held its annual “International Environment Compliance Program: High Tech and Global Environmental Regulations 2008 Update” in Chicago, Boston and Silicon Valley respectively. Our main speakers included Steve Andrews from UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), and Chris Smith from UK RoHS Enforcement Authority (NWML)...more

Attendees at the Silicon Valley event at Sun Microsystems

Speakers from the Chicago event at Motorola

Chris Smith, UK RoHS Enforcement Authority, speaks at the Massachusetts event at Philips

Holly Evans to Lead AeA's Environmental Policy Efforts
Christopher Hansen, AeA’s President and CEO, announced on February 11, 2008, that Ms. Holly Evans, President, Strategic Counsel, LLC, has joined forces with AeA to provide advice and strategic direction to the Association and its member companies on environmental policy issues at the state, international, and federal levels. Ms. Evans is a renowned expert on key environmental law and policy issues facing the high-tech industry, including global and U.S. chemical restrictions, energy efficiency mandates, recycling requirements, and green procurement initiatives. This announcement follows on the heels of AeA’s expansion of its state government affairs program...more.

AeA Launches a Green and Clean Technology Initiative
AeA's newly announced initiative will focus on the issues, knowledge, adoption, and advancement of clean and green technologies in the state, federal, and international markets...more.

Deb Calevro, AeA; California Assemblymember Lloyd Levine; Denise Pearl, Symantec; Will Semmes, Department of General Services, California; and Dave Blevins, Symantec at the January 23 Green Government event in Sacramento (L-R).

Strategic Counsel, LLC is a full-service government relations and environmental policy consulting firm, located in Alexandria, Virginia, that provides members of the global electronics industry with advice, counsel, and consulting services that facilitate compliance with international, U.S. federal, and U.S. state product-related environmental requirements and fulfillment of voluntary market-based "green" design requirements.

As a result of this new partnership, AeA members will now have special members-only access to Strategic Counsel’s acclaimed monthly newsletter, Environmental Issues Update, which analyzes product-related environmental requirements of relevance to the electronics industry.

Environmental Issues Update

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