Tuesday September 13, 2005
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Diane and her guests talk about how Hurricane Katrina's environmental impact is being assessed, the potential hazard to humans and to the region's ecosystems posed by industrial pollutants, bacteria, and previously existing toxic waste sites, and how to clean up the mess.
Marianne Horinko, former Environmental Protection Agency Acting Administrator (2003) and Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER); currently executive director of the Global Environment and Technology Foundation
Dr. Lynn Goldman, pediatrician, epidemiologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; former assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances
Darryl Malek-Wiley, environmental justice organizer for the Sierra Club in Louisiana
Karen Gautreaux, deputy secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
Hugh Kaufman, senior policy analyst for the EPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
The author presents his latest novel. It deals with the roots of terrorism as seen in the aftermath of the Kashmir conflict, when the fates of a World War II resistance hero and a Kashmiri dancing girl converge.
Salman Rushdie, Booker Prize winning author of nine novels, including "The Satanic Verses" and "Midnight's Children."