《Shades Of Green Dec 5 2013 - Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign》 - 免费有声读物

Our guest for December 5th, 2013 was Dr. Al Armendariz with the Texas Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign on upcoming EPA hearings dealing with the carbon rules to be set around Lignite Coal Strip Mining.

Dr. Armendariz was appointed by President Obama on November 5, 2009, as the Regional Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6, in Dallas. Prior to his appointment, for eight years he was a professor in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he received several outstanding faculty awards. For the past 15 years, Dr. Armendariz has worked in a variety of research and academic positions including, for a short time in 2002, in the Region 6 EPA offices.