TO TILL and TO TEND: ENERGY NEEDS AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ON WESTCHESTER’S COMMUNITIES

Public awareness of the health and environmental impacts of hydro-fracking is growing  across the country. As the expansion of natural gas infrastructure sweeps across the tri-state area, we are quickly learning that these new methods of shale gas production may bring health and environmental threats to Westchester.

SPEAKERS:
Albert F. Appleton
Adjunct Associate Professor at CooperUnion, Senior Fellow for Sustainability Entrepreneurship at Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design; former Commissioner of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection

Sheila Bushkin-Bedient, MD, MPH
Member, Concerned Health Professionals of NY; Member, Institute of Health and the Environment at SUNY Albany

Jannette M. Barth, PhD
Economist with Pepacton Institute LLC; former Chief Economist of the NY MTA

Elisabeth N. Radow
Managing Attorney at Radow Law PLLC; Chairwoman of the League of Women Voters of New York State’s Committee on Energy, Agriculture
and the Environment

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