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Frontline: Poisoned Waters
April 8, 2009
David Fanning executive producer, Frontline
Lisa Jackson EPA administrator, Obama administration
Bill Ruckelshaus founding EPA administrator, Nixon administration
Hedrick Smith reporter, Poisoned Waters

Frontline's executive producer David Fanning welcomes more than 200 national and regional environmental leaders at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, for a sneak preview of Frontline's special report Poisoned Waters. A panel discussion follows, with special guests Lisa Jackson, new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator for the Obama Administration; and Bill Ruckelshaus, founding EPA Administrator under Nixon. Poisoned Waters correspondent Hedrick Smith leads the panel discussion about why, three decades after the Clean Water Act, two of the nation's great coastal estuaries, Puget Sound and Chesapeake Bay, are in perilous condition.

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