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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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3185.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
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| William A. Fontenot has served as the Community Liaison Officer for the Louisiana Attorney General's Office for the last 27 years. He also served on the boards of Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) and the Labor Neighbor Project, and he currently serves on the board of directors of Clean Water Action and the Mississippi River Basin Alliance. In addition, he worked as the Executive Director of the Louisiana Wildlife Federation and as chairman of the New Orleans Group and the Delta Chapter of the Sierra Club. He has assisted thousands of individuals and helped hundreds of groups with a wide variety of problems and issues throughout Louisiana and in more than thirty other states. Mr. Fontenot has focused his career on assisting poor and minority communities and workers who are impacted by industrial pollution and poorly legislated environmental mandates. Ms. Harden is the co-founder and co-director of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, a nonprofit, public interest law firm in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ms. Harden provides legal counsel and advocacy support to organized communities, and she has contributed to important environmental justice victories that have protected people from the damaging health and environmental burdens of industrial pollution. One noteworthy victory includes the successful relocation of the Diamond Community away from the pollutants of a major petrochemical facility. In addition, Ms. Harden and her legal staff filed the first ever human rights petition that seeks reform of the United States environmental regulatory system on behalf of African American residents in Mossville, Louisiana. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Expand knowledge of Louisiana environmental justice and health issues; 2. Increase awareness of the future of environmental justice work from an enviromental health and legal perspective; 3. Improve understanding of politics associated with environmental justice and health issues in Louisiana. | |||
| Nsedu Witherspoon, MPH | |||
| Leon F. Vinci, MPH | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA