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Richard Beatty Mellon Environmental Stewardship Award

Honors & Awards Committee Chair

Dan Schmid
3M Environmental Operations
EH&S Operations
Bldg. 42-2E-27
PO Box 33331
St. Paul MN 55133-3331USA
doschmid@mmm.com

This award-established by resolution of the Board of Directors on February 12, 1954-is awarded to an individual whose contributions of a civic nature-whether administrative, legislative, or judicial-have aided substantially in pollution abatement in some field related to the mission and objectives of the Association. To be eligible for the award, individuals must have made a sincere, constant, and unselfish effort over a period of time and in a manner best suited to his/her own resources, to develop or increase interest in, or acceptance of, the cause of air pollution control and waste management for the betterment of the environment. The award is not limited to any specific area of endeavor.

Richard Beatty Mellon established the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in 1913. He showed great interest in the abatement of urban smoke and air pollution and was a leader in incepting and sustaining the first modern investigations of the control of air pollution. The Richard Beatty Mellon Award may be awarded to members and nonmembers of the Association.

Past Recipients


2007         Ross C. ‘Rocky’ Anderson
2006         Robert D. Brenner
2005         Joseph T. Ling *
2004         —
2003         David E. Hess
2002         David G. Hawkins
2001         John S. Seitz
2000         Gladys A. Meade
1999         Mary D. Nichols
1998         —
1997         Jacques Gerin
1996         William K. Reilly
1995         John S. Lagarias       
1994         Eileen L. Johnston*
1993         Joanne Sharpless      
1992         —
1991         Gro Harlem Brundtland               
1990         Douglas M. Costle
1989         Robert T. Stafford
1988         John Quarles
1987         Bruce Walker
1986         —
1985         William D. Ruckelshaus
1984         —
1983         John A. Fraser
1982         G. Arthur Webb *
1981         —


1980         Harold J. Paulus *
1979         —
1978         —
1977         Bernard J. Steigerwald *
1976         —
1975         Maurice F. Strong
1974         W. Brad Drowley *
1973         —
1972         John T. Middleton
1971         Allen D. Brandt *
1970         Arthur C. Stern *
1969         Vernon G. Mackenzie *
1968         —
1967         Arnold Marsh *
1966         Lewlie Silverman *
1965         Edmund S. Muskie
1964         —
1963         R. L. Ireland
1962         Richard K. Mellon *
1961         —
1960         Robert A. Kehoe
1959         John F. Barkley *
1958         —
1957         Raymond R. Tucker *
1956         Edward R. Weidlein, Sr. *

*  Deceased