Environmental Justice Lecture Series

["Priscilla Salant" <psalant@moscow.com>]

A colleague at the U of I asked that I forward this to the list.

----- Original Message -----
From: Julia Parker <jparker@uidaho.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:47 AM
Subject: Chip Ward's Lecture


> Breakfast Cereal for Two_headed Babies: Environmental Risk, Regulation,
and Justice in the American West"
>
> Chip Ward, author of Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West,
will give a colorful and passionate account of lessons learned as a
grassroots activist in Utah dealing with industrial, nuclear, and military
pollution. Ward will make the
> case that the Great Basin Desert is being turned into an environmental
sacrifice zone and toxic enabler for American industry and the military. The
San Francisco Chronicle has compared his book to Rachel Carson's Silent
Spring.  Terry Tempest Williams describes him as  "a local hero who has
found his greatest defense for the land he  loves is
> his pen."
>
> Wednesday, March 7, 2001
> 7:00 p.m.
> UI College of Law, Courtroom
>
> This topic is important to the area because of the similarities between
Chip's backyard (the Great Basin) and Idaho.  While Utah has been downwind
of nuclear testing, the repository of hazardous waste, and the home to
military environmental pollution, Idaho is downwind of the Hanford Lab and
houses the Idaho National Environmental Engineering
> Laboratory.  We are also on the border of a proposed chemical weapons
incinerator in Northeast Oregon.  Utah has the first chemical weapons
incinerator active on the continental U.S.

Co-sponsored by the U of Idaho's Office of Diversity and Human Rights, and
Colleges of Natural Resources and Agriculture.