Published October 15. 2015 12:00AM
MUHLENBERG
COLLEGE
Muhlenberg College, 2400 Chew St., Allentown, will be hosting a Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Clean Power Plan listening session 6 p.m. Oct. 22 in Trumbower 130 at the college.
This event will be one of many statewide listening sessions about the plan in order to offer all stakeholders an opportunity to provide input into drafting a Clean Power Plan that is tailored to fit Pennsylvania’s economy.
Muhlenberg’s listening session is a product of the momentum generated by new standards of environmental protection in the U.S. government.
Heidi Kunka (Kunsch) ’81, PADEP energy program specialist, and Liz Schmitt ’07, outreach coordinator for Climate Change and Energy at The Union of Concerned Scientists, will participate in this event.
This event is being sponsored by the Sustainability Studies Program, EnAct (The Student Environmental Action Team) and the Political Science Department.
The Institute for Jewish-Christian Understanding is hosting a Wallenberg Tribute lecture and reception and dinner Oct. 18 in Seegers Union at Muhlenberg College, 2400 Chew St., Allentown.
This event is to honor Wallenberg honoree Alan Jennings, executive director of the Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley.
Reception will be 4:30 p.m. Dinner will follow at 5:30 p.m.
The speaker will be Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
For more information, call 484-664-3470 or go to ijcu.org.