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Los Angeles, California Listening Session

Environmental Protection Agency
Aging Initiative Public Listening Session
Los Angeles, California
April 29, 2003

Comments from the Los Angeles, California Listening Session

Los Angelos, California Listeners
Listening Panel:

John Coyle, Acting Director, Los Angeles County Area Agency on Aging

Wayne Nastri, Regional Administrator EPA, Region 9

Romel Pascual, Assistant Secretary, California Environmental Protection Agency

Mike Schulz, EPA Region 9 Southern California Office (Mr. Schulz did not speak formally at the session)

Laura Trejo, General Manager, City of Los Angeles Department of Aging

Steven P. Wallace, PhD, Professor, UCLA School of Public Health; Associate Director, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Co-PI, Resource Center for Minority Aging Research Coordinating Center

Public Speakers:

Natalie Ambrose

Dr. Robert W. Amler, Chief Medical Officer, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control

Chandra Bales, University of New Mexico, Earth Data Analyses

James E. Birren [PDF, 90 KB], Ph.D., Associate Director of the Center on Aging, UCLA

Joann Damon-Rodriguez [PDF, 681 KB], LCSW, PhD., California Council on Gerontology and Geriatrics

Gail Ruderman Feuer, Natural Resources Defense Council

Ellen Stern Harris speaking about water shortage issues in Southern California. April 29 Los Angeles Listening Session.
Ellen Stern Harris speaking about water shortage issues in Southern California. April 29 Los Angeles Listening Session.

Ellen Stern Harris, Founder and Editor, Fund for the Environment/BeverlyHillsCitizen.org

Don Holtz, Sierra Club

Saran Kirschbaum [PDF, 107 KB], Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life of Southern CA

Melodye Kleinman, WISE Senior Services,Inc.

Heather Mann, National Indian Council on the Aging

Dr. Genevieve Marcus, Experimental Cities Org.

Evan Thomas Paul, Environment CA

Paul Petersen [PDF, 185 KB], President and Founder, A Minor Consideration

Victor Regnier [PDF, 113 KB], Professor, USC School of Architecture and Gerontology

Tracy Schroth, Civic Ventures

Robert Smith

Alek Sripipatana, MPH, Research Associate, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Lee H. Wallach, Interfaith Council

Dr. F. Eugene Yates [PDF, 590 KB], Professor of Medicine Emeritus, UCLA

Martin H. Zisner [PDF, 163 KB], CIH, CSP, REHS, Safety Administrator, City of Los Angeles

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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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