Collection:LPB

Genre: Documentary

Place Covered: Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 1986-04-3

Duration: 01:28:03

Subjects: Environment | HAZARDOUS WASTES | United States. Environmental Protection Agency | Louisiana. Department of Environmental Quality | Pollution | Cancer

Contributors:

• Johnson, Ken Host
• Fernandez, Manny Interviewee
• Abshire, Gaulman Interviewee
• Houck, Oliver Interviewee
• Guste, William Interviewee
• Conzelmann, Paul Interviewee
• Anderson, John Speaker
• Fontenot, William Interviewee
• Arnow, Pete Interviewee
• Giboney, J.T. Interviewee
• Malek-Wiley, Daryl Interviewee
• Caughman, W.L., Sr. Interviewee
• Deville, William Interviewee
• Norton, Pat Interviewee
• Caruso, Sam Interviewee
• Vincent, Ross Interviewee
• Tauzin, Billy Interviewee
• Vincent, Jerome Interviewee
• Vincent, Mable Interviewee
• Jirouard, Ernest Interviewee
• Hanks, Gay Interviewee
• Loy, Fred Interviewee
• Boudreaux, John Interviewee
• Knochenmus, Darwin Interviewee
• Nyman, Dale Interviewee
• Seidelman, Ray Interviewee
• Thompson, Herb Interviewee
• Correa, Pelayo Interviewee
• Moore, Charles Interviewee
• Campbell, Velma Interviewee
• Daigre, Gerard Interviewee
• Cole, Stan Interviewee
• Portier, Ralph Interviewee
• Templet, Paul Interviewee

This program from April 3, 1986, features Ken Johnson’s special report on the impact Louisiana’s 340 abandoned hazardous waste sites on the state’s environment. It touches on: illegal hazardous waste dumping; the Louisiana Attorney General’s possible lawsuit against the Shell Oil Company for the clean-up of Bayou Trepagnier in St. Charles Parish; the problems facing the Environmental Protection Agency’s superfund program; the lack of state funding to clean-up abandoned hazardous waste sites; groundwater contamination; the possible linkage between hazardous waste and cancer; and the proper disposal of hazardous waste. Johnson interviews: State Representative Manny Fernandez; Dr. Gaulman Abshire of Kaplan; Oliver Houck, a law professor at Tulane University; Louisiana Attorney General William Guste; Paul Conzelmann of Lafayette; William Fontenot, environmental specialist with the Attorney General’s Office; Pete Arnow, Assistant Attorney General; J.T. Giboney of the Shell Oil Company; Daryl Malek-Wiley of the Sierra Club; W.L. Caughman, Sr. of the Shell Oil Company; William Deville of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality’s abandoned hazardous waste section; Secretary Pat Norton of the Department of Environmental Quality; Slidell Mayor Sam Caruso; Ross Vincent of the Ecology Center; Congressman Billy Tauzin; Jerome Vincent of Kaplan; Mable Vincent of Kaplan; Ernest Jirouard, farmer; Gay Hanks of Kaplan; Fred Loy of the Louisiana Chemical Association; John Boudreaux, farmer; Darwin Knochenmus of the USGS; Dale Nyman of the USGS; Ray Seidelman, assistant waterworks superintendent at the Chicot Aquifer; Herb Thompson, conservation commissioner; Dr. Pelayo Correa, cancer specialist; Charles Moore, attorney; Dr. Velma Campbell, Ochsner Hospital; Gerard Daigre of the Dow Chemical Company; Stan Cole of the Dow Chemical Company; Dr. Ralph Portier, environmental sciences professor at LSU; and Dr. Paul Templet, LSU professor. This program was preserved through the American Archive of Public Broadcasting’s Transcribe to Digitize Challenge, a partnership with George Blood LP.