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Windswept Environmental Group, Inc. Announces the Hiring of Stephen Hix As Senior Vice President, Special Projects and Leo Melancon, Vice President of Sales, Gulf Coast Region

Posted on: Tuesday, 27 June 2006, 12:00 CDT

BAY SHORE, N.Y., June 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Windswept Environmental Group, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: WEGI) announced today the hiring of Stephen Hix as Senior Vice President, Special Projects and the hiring of Mr. Leo Melancon as its Vice President of Sales, Gulf Coast Region. The position of Senior Vice President, Special Projects was created to increase the company's share of government projects. At the present time, over 90% of the company's work comes from private sector clients. Vice President of Sales, Gulf Coast Region is a newly created position specifically to develop clients in this section of the country.

Mr. Hix will be focusing on FEMA, OEM, DOD and DHS bid opportunities, as well as increasing awards under the Company's existing Basic Ordering Agreements with the US Coast Guard and US General Services Administration. He has over 25 years of experience securing and completing Federal and State contracts. Mr. Hix previously held the position of Senior Project Manager with a national environmental engineering firm, performing multimillion dollar Department of Defense contracts.

Mr. Melancon is a successful entrepreneur. He built from the ground up and then sold his own multi-million dollar company in Louisiana. Leo has over thirty years of construction industry expertise and a lifetime of experience in southern hospitality.

The addition of Mr. Melancon and Mr. Hix are part of the company's continuing focus on the developing emergency response service market in both the public and private sectors.

Michael O'Reilly, Chairman and CEO of Windswept, stated, "As a result of Hurricane Katrina and the 9/11 attacks, the Federal Government has been allotting increasing funds to emergency response planning and securing in-place emergency response contracts. We believe that we can substantially increase our share of these contracts. Even a small increase in our share of the government emergency contract market, such as that might be afforded to us from better utilization of our existing BOA's, has the potential to dramatically impact revenues".

Windswept Environmental Group, Inc. is a full service environmental company that provides a wide array of emergency response and disaster recovery services to a broad range of clients. The Company has expertise in areas of fire and flood clean-up, oil spill and natural resource response, wildlife rehabilitation, hazardous materials remediation, testing, toxicology, training, technical advisory and site renovation.

This press release includes certain forward looking statements about Windswept Environmental Group, Inc. ("the Company") that are based on management's current expectations. Actual results may differ materially as a result of any one or more of the risks identified in the Company's fillings under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. The risks include such factors as the Company's significant indebtedness, the amount of the Company's revenues, the Company's ability to increase its gross margins, the success of limiting or reducing its expenses, the frequency and magnitude of environmental disasters or disruptions, the effects of new laws or regulations relating to environmental remediation, the Company's ability to raise capital, the competitive environment within the Company's industry, dependence on key personnel and economic conditions.

Windswept Environmental Group, Inc.

CONTACT: Michael O'Reilly, Chief Executive Officer, WindsweptEnvironmental Group, Inc., +1-516-434-1300

Web site: http://www.tradewindsenvironmental.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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