Nominations for Save The Bay Environmental Awards Now Being Accepted Through April 22

PROVIDENCE, RI – Now through April 22, Save The Bay is accepting nominations for its 2016 annual environmental awards–the Environmental Achievement Award and the Alison J. Walsh Award for Outstanding Environmental Advocacy. Winners will be awarded and presented at the organization’s annual meeting and Taste of the Bay event on June 9, 2016.

The Environmental Achievement Award is presented annually to individuals, corporations or organizations that have demonstrated outstanding leadership and commitment to the environmental protection of Narragansett Bay and its watershed.

The Alison J. Walsh Award for Outstanding Environmental Advocacy is awarded annually to an individual who has displayed an extraordinary commitment to the environmental protection of Narragansett Bay and its watershed through advocacy, community leadership, and/or direct action. The winner receives a $1,000 cash award.

“The success of our efforts depends on the active involvement and stewardship of countless others in protecting and improving the Bay, and this is our small way of honoring and recognizing some of them. We encourage community members to nominate those who exemplify dedicated stewardship of Narragansett Bay and its watershed,” said Save The Bay Executive Director Jonathan Stone.

The submission deadline for nominations is Friday, April 22, 2016. Nominations can be submitted  online atwww.savebay.org/annualawards or by contacting Maureen Fogarty at mfogarty@savebay.org or 401-272-3540.

Last year, Angelo S. Liberti III, of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) won the Environmental Achievement Award for his long-term efforts to reduce nutrient loadings to the Bay through strengthened permit limits, assistance to municipalities with wastewater facility planning and leadership in the areas of pollution-related closures and stormwater strategy. Dave McLaughlin, co-founder of Clean Ocean Access, received the Alison Walsh Award for Outstanding Environmental Advocacy for his community-wide efforts to eliminate marine debris from shorelines, improve water quality from watershed to marine ecosystem, and protect and preserve shoreline access for residents and visitors. One nominee, Dr. Candace Oviatt, director of the University of Rhode Island’s Marine Ecosystems Research Lab, rose to the level of Save The Bay’s Lifetime Achievement Award. won Save The Bay’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her decades of work providing the strong scientific foundation for RIDEM actions requiring reductions in nutrient pollutant loadings to Upper Narrragansett Bay, new statewide shellfish management strategies and water pollution control efforts.

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