The mission of Loyola University's Center for Environmental Communications to educate students in the field of environmental communications, to stimulate communication among environmental stakeholders, to provide the public with fair discussion of environmental issues, and to be a resource to the media for environmental information. The Institute of Environmental Communications (IEC) brings together a diverse group of citizens (environmentalists, scientists, journalists, industrialists, Brown Field community people, politicians, government employees, teachers, business persons, and the like) sessions to discuss issues of vital environmental importance to the region and nation