(INDIANAPOLIS) -- At an awards dinner tonight, Vince Griffin, the Indiana Chamber's vice president of energy and environmental policy, will be honored by his alma matter.

Griffin will receive the 2009 Natural Resources and Environmental Management Alumni Society Award of Distinction from Ball State University, where he earned his master's degree in 1975.

A Ball State release notes the award is presented to "one who is in a position of distinction, and who has demonstrated outstanding successes in his field, related to natural resources."

A member of the Chamber's lobbying team for 12 years, Griffin is a registered environmental health specialist and former president of the Indiana Environmental Health Association.  He currently serves on the board of the Center for Coal Technology and Research at Purdue and the Center for Earth and Environmental Sciences at Indiana University.

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