POISONED WATERS pbs.org/frontline/poisoned
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- Environmental Documentary
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- PBS FRONTTLINE co-production with Hedrick Smith Productions, Inc.
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Town Hall
Tuesday, April 14 at 6:00pm - National Press Club Symposium ...
Online Webcast
Wednesday, April 8 at 1:00pm
Kristen The White House has nominated Mr. Siddiqui for the position of chief agricultural negotiator in the office of the United States trade representative. He is presently a vice president at CropLife America, a coalition of the major industrial players in the pesticide industry, including Syngenta, Monsanto, Dow Chemical an...d DuPont. That job doesn’t seem to square with the Obama administration’s professed interest in more sustainable, less chemically dependent approaches to agriculture
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President Obama’s nominee for the nation’s chief agricultural negotiator should represent a broad view of American agriculture.
Carol Ann Wald I watched "Poisoned Waters" and thought it was excellent--I am starting to switch to more environmentally friendly household and personal care products.
Poisoned Waters
Check out this video: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on the Poisoned Waters panel discussion. The Administrator discussed her plans for the agency and announced a hard-line approach to curbing agricultural runoff. The National Wildlife Federation has put the video on it’s website: http://online.nwf.org/site/PageNavigator
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poisonedwaters - excerpt from Lisa Jackson address at the National Press Club provided by PBS Frontline - "Poisioned Waters"
Chris Wohlers The Center for a Livable Future v-blogged about the show a little while back. Here's the link.
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Dr. Robert Lawrence discusses the nation's water pollution and his involvement in the production of "Poisoned Waters," a PBS FRONTLINE documentary that examines the increased hazards to human health and the ecosystem caused by decades of polluted runoff from agriculture, development and industries.
Poisoned Waters Industrial-style agriculture farms are coming under mounting scrutiny from the government and citizen watchdog groups for their masses of manure that often end up untreated into our waterways. Robert Kennedy Jr. leads a band of “riverkeepers” at the Waterkeeper Alliance that is investigating industrial agriculture and ...its costs to taxpayers, beaches and drinking water intakes. From coast to coast, industrial agriculture produces 1 trillion pounds of manure, more than three times the raw waste of humans. PBS FRONTLINE's Poisoned Waters discusses who is paying to clean up that waste and what activists like Kennedy say needs to happen.
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Leopoldo Miranda
Some more info on this and other Chesapeake Bay issues: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Annapolis-
Government:101 fans
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President Obama took a dramatic step to revive faltering efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay yesterday, issuing an executive order that could empower the federal Environmental Protection Agency to set a more demanding timetable and penalize states that fail to meet it.
Poisoned Waters Read Hedrick Smith On Huffington Post
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Chemicals in consumer products are finding their way into sewers, storm drains, and eventually into our drinking water. Millions of people are drinking endocrine disruptors in their tap water.
Chad Findlay
I worked on the show and have a bunch of behind the scene pictures from the shoot in the Puget Sound at http://web.me.com/chadfindlay/Chad_Findl
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I spent about 20 days off and on working for a documentary that will air on PBS’s show, “Frontline,” on April 21st of 2009. It will be two hours about water quality and it’s effects, comparing the clean up in the Chesapeake Bay and the Puget Sound. The show will be called, “Poisoned Waters.”
Poisoned Waters Scientists like USGS fish pathologist Vicki Blazer are finding weird mutations in fish and frogs around the country. They worry this spells trouble for humans. Blazer’s team was called out to find the mysterious cause of massive fish kills on the Potomac River. What they found were all kinds of weird problems – includ...ing fish with “Intersex.” The culprit? Their research points to chemicals called endocrine disrupters, found in a whole host of consumer products. These chemicals play havoc with normal biology – marine biology, but also potentially, human biology.
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Orca whales are a prime indicator of how poisoned our coastal waters are. So NOAA scientists get samples of whale blubber with dart guns. Others protest this hurts, maybe even kills whales. NOAA scientists Brad Hanson, who takes Frontline correspondent Hedrick Smith on this Puget Sound whale hunt, denies that. He says ...NOAA follows the whales to make sure they don’t get sick. NOAA’s figures, says Hanson, show that the sampled whales have a better survival rate than the Puget Sound whale population in general.
Want to know more? Visit Poisoned Waters on facebook or at http://www.pbs.org/frontline/poisonedwat
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Poisoned Waters
WATCH POISONED WATERS:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
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Poisoned Waters
Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator for President Obama, and Bill Ruckelshaus, the first EPA Administrator, under President Nixon, will lead a discussion of effective policies for protecting America’s waterways at the initial unveiling of brief segments of “Poisoned Waters” for the media and for major national
and regional... environmental groups.
If you miss the live webcast, it will be posted on the web at www.pbs.org/frontline/poisonedwaters and also at www.hedricksmith.com Please tune in and let others know as well.
For more information and to see a preview video clip please visit: www.pbs.org/frontline/poisonedwaters
Time:1:00PM Wednesday, April 8th
Location:Online Webcast
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