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“Shades of Green” Environmental Talk Radio on KOOP 91.7 FM (Dr. Al Armendariz on EPA Hearings for Lignite Coal Strip Mining)
November 23 @ 5:43 pm
Please join the Shades of Green crew for its weekly program on KOOP Community Radio on 91.7 FM or streaming live at www.koop.org. This Thursday, from 1-2PM, we will interview 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.
Before joining SMU, he was a chemical engineer with Radian Corporation in North Carolina. During and after college he worked as a research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Global Change Science at its Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory in Massachusetts.
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