Steve Benson, director of the EERC's Center for Air Toxic Metals (CATM), addresses the opening session of the Conference on Air Quality held last December in McLean, VA. Seated to his right are EERC Director Gerald Groenewold; U.S. Senator Kent Conrad; U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson; Rita Bajura, director of the Department of Energy Federal Energy Technology Center (FETC); and Peter Preuss, director of the National Center for Environmental Research and Quality Assurance of the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development.