Public Lectures

Danz Lecturer: Hedrick Smith

Executive Producer Hedrick Smith Productions
Correspondent

November 3, 2009   |   6:30 p.m.   |   Kane Hall, Room 130

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Who are the NEW Polluters?

When the Clean Water Act was passed in the 1970s, the focus of the Environmental Protection Agency and the public was on big industrial polluters - chemical plants, steel mills, copper smelters, wastewater treatment plants. The enemy was Them, with a capital T - Big Industry. Today, the problem and the villains have changed, thanks largely to economic development and the sprawl that surrounds American cities, large, medium and small. Scientists now point to the ecologically damaging runoff from highways, parking lots, malls, suburban developments, any and all of the hard surfaces used in development as the largest single source of toxic waste flowing into Puget Sound and other iconic American waterways. In short, we're all the New Polluters. This poses a new and daunting challenge for policy-makers and ordinary citizens.

Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and editor and Emmy Award-winning producer/correspondent, is one of America's most distinguished journalists. He has covered Washington and world capitals for The New York Times, authored several best-selling books and created 20 award-winning PBS prime time specials and miniseries on Washington's power game, Soviet perestroika, the global economy, education reform, health care, teen violence, terrorism and Wall Street.

 

Sponsoring Departments:
The Graduate School, www.grad.washington.edu
Friday Harbor Laboratories, http://depts.washington.edu/fhl/
Department of Communication, http://www.com.washington.edu/
Department of Biology, http://www.biology.washington.edu/
UW Alumni Association, http://www.washington.edu/alumni/

To Learn More:
http://www.hedricksmith.com/about/hedrickSmithBio.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedrick_Smith
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poisonedwaters/
http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/cwa/

 

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