Toxic Chemicals Around Us: Texans at Risk, Say Environmental Health Advocates

Texas Politicians Attack Environmental Health Protections

EPA Region 6 Administrator and environmental health advocates talk about the hidden dangers of chemical pollution in Texas

January 19, 6 p.m. CST, 7 p.m. EST,  4 p.m. PST

Live on KPFT Houston, 90.1 FM, and www.kpft.org

HOUSTON, Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Why did  a Hollywood actor give up his career and return home to take on the  biggest fight of all in Port Arthur? What drove a Gulf Coast fisherwoman to sink her fishing boat on top of a plume pouring deadly dioxin into Galveston Bay? How did a Houston man organize communities impacted by  chemical contamination and fight for policy to make healthier communities in the dirtiest city in the nation?

These heroes will tell their stories and show how chemical pollution has no boundaries, that all Texans are threatened by the chemical stew the pervades the state.

Another big question: why are Texas Politicians attacking the Environmental Protection Agency regulations to  protect our health when the people of Texas are already sick from  pollution?

Administrator Armendariz will tell the story of Texas politicians attacking EPA rules to protect environmental health. Parras, Kelley, Wilson, and Carman will be  telling their stories, and sharing information about what all Texans can do to  deal with 82,000 unregulated chemicals in the marketplace, and how to identify  and cope with the rising rates of illnesses linked to this ubiquitous chemical  exposure and about the Safe Chemicals Act, federal legislation that was  introduced last year to address the antiquated laws that govern the regulation  of industrial chemicals

Event Co-producers: Juan Parras, founder  of Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services  (TEJAS). Jeff Kaplan CEO of New Living, a Houston store that specializes in sustainable building materials and other environmentally healthy products. Anne Robertson with New Conscious Capital, a Texas LLC whose purpose is to raise capital and awareness for companies that are providing solutions to some of our most pressing social and environmental  problems.

For more information: http://www.louisvillecharter.org/TexasvsEPA1.19.2011.shtml

SOURCE Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS)