Collection:LPB

Genre: Newsmagazine

Place Covered: Ascension Parish, Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 1990-01-12

Duration: 00:14:30

Subjects: Environment | HAZARDOUS WASTES | Pollution | United States. Environmental Protection Agency

Contributors:

• Collins, Robert Host
• Nachman, Karen Reporter
• Favorite, Amos Interviewee
• Ethridge, Harold Interviewee
• Guste, William Interviewee
• Robert, Theresa Interviewee
• Fontenot, Willie Interviewee

This segment from the January 12, 1990, episode of the series “Louisiana: The State We’re In” features Karen Nachman’s report on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) plans to clean-up two superfund sites in Ascension Parish, the Old Inger Oil Refinery and the Dutchtown Treatment Plant. Nachman reports that citizens are skeptical that the clean-up will happen as planned due to ongoing problems with the superfund program. She interviews: Amos Favorite, concerned citizen in Dutchtown; Harold Ethridge of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ); Attorney General William Guste; and Theresa Robert of Save Our Selves. Robert Collins then conducts an in-studio interview with Willie Fontenot, an environmental specialist with the Attorney General’s Office. He discusses the status of the EPA superfund clean-up at sites throughout Louisiana.