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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Listening Session

Environmental Protection Agency
Aging Initiative Public Listening Session
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
April 23, 2003

Comments from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Listening Session

Listening Panel:

Dr. Helen Burns, Deputy Secretary for Health Planning and Assessment, Department of Health, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Holly Cairns, Southwest Region Environmental Advocate for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

Dr. Bruce Dixon, Administrator, Allegheny County Health Department

Dr. Bernard Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh, Dean, School of Public Health

William Johnston-Walsh, Deputy Secretary of Aging, Pennsylvania Department of Aging

Mildred E. Morrison [PDF, 97 KB], Administrator, Allegheny County Area Agency on Aging

James Roddey, Allegheny County Executive

Donald Welsh, Regional Administrator, EPA Region III

Public Speakers:

Beverly Braverman

Phil Coleman, Chair, Pennsylvania Chapter of the Sierra Club

Wyona Coleman [PDF, 91 KB], Sierra Club/Tri-State Citizens Mining Network

Jo Ann Evansgardner, Ph.D.

Richard Fitzgerald, Allegheny County Counsel

Joan Flood [PDF, 132 KB], East End Neighborhood Forum

Gerald Gardner

Edward Gerjuoy [PDF, 131 KB]

Victor R. Graves

Frances E. Harkins

Meryl Karol [PDF, 176 KB], Ph.D., Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh

Marilyn Kraitchman, Vintage Senior Center & Project Director, EASI (Allegheny/Butler County)

William Thompkins, Executive
Assistant to the Allegheny County Chief Executive.
William Thompkins, Executive Assistant to the Allegheny County Chief Executive.

Lewis Kuller [PDF, 201 KB], MD, DrPH, Director for Health Aging, University of Pittsburgh

Mary Larcinese [PDF, 120 KB], Mayor, Borough of Jefferson Hills

Hon. David K. Levdansky, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 39th District

Lester Ludwig [PDF, 230 KB]

Lisa Graves Marcucci

James M. McCrea, Executive Director, Generations Together, University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh

John Mendeloff, University of Pittsburgh

Janet Mostowy [PDF, 192 KB], American Chemistry Council

Debra Payerchin [PDF, 185 KB], Regional Vice President, American Lung Association of PA

Karen Peterson [PDF, 166 KB], RN, MPH, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Rev. Regina Ragan

Fred H. Rubin, M.D., FACP, FRCP (C), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Heather Sage, Outreach Coordinator, Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future

Suzanne Seppi, Director, Group Against Smog and Pollution

Marilyn Skolnick [PDF, 127 KB], Sierra Club, Allegheny Group

Stephen B. Thomas, Graduate School of Public Health

William D. Thompkins, Executive Assistant, County Executive

Farley Toothman, Greene County Commissioner, Waynesburg, PA

Phyllis Wetherby, President of First Pittsburgh Chapter of the National Organization for Women

Dennis Winters, Deputy Director, Clean Air Council

Ileana Wyerman

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US Environmental Protection Agency
Office of the Administrator
Aging Initiative
1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Mail Code 1107A
Room 2512 Ariel Rios North
Washington, DC 20460

Email: aging.info@epa.gov
Phone: 202-564-2188

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