[StBernard] EPA Administrator Continues New Orleans Visit Commemorating Hurricane Katrina Anniversary

[Westley Annis]

EPA Administrator Continues New Orleans Visit Commemorating Hurricane
Katrina Anniversary 

  

Four-day visit includes visits with students, residents and community
organizations 

   

Dallas - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson
continues her visit to New Orleans today with a series of events
commemorating the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the continued
rebuilding of neighborhoods and areas devastated by the hurricane. She will
remain in the region until Sunday. 

  

Administrator Jackson, a native of New Orleans, who grew up in Pontchartrain
Park, is speaking to students on her New Orleans upbringing, Hurricane
Katrina's impact and EPA's role in helping to revive and restore the region.
Jackson is also giving remarks to several environmental and community
organizations and speaking with residents and local volunteers. Tomorrow,
she will speak to students and answer questions at the Wilson School, a
green charter school that was rebuilt after being destroyed by Hurricane
Katrina. She will later attend Tulane University's Wave of Green Volunteer
event, where volunteers will work to beautify the area by planting trees,
gardening and other tasks. Jackson will also give remarks at the TEDxNOLA
conference, a conference focused on New Orleans' redevelopment. 

  

Saturday, Jackson will tour a home being constructed by volunteers of 50 for
5, an organization building homes for families displaced by Hurricane
Katrina.  

  

Additional information about Administrator Jackson's schedule will be
released when it becomes available. 

  

To request an interview with Administrator Jackson, please email
johnson.alisha at epa.gov <mailto:johnson.alisha at epa.gov> . 

  

Friday, August 27, 2010 

9:30 AM CDT                      Remarks and Q&A at Student Summit 

Andrew H. Wilson Charter School 

3617 General Pershing Street 

New Orleans, LA 

OPEN PRESS 

  

11 AM CDT                          Tulane University Wave of Green Volunteer
Event 

1 Collin Diboll Circle 

New Orleans, LA 

                                                OPEN PRESS 

  

2:30 PM CDT                       Remarks at TEDxNOLA Conference


Le Petit Theatre, 616 St Peter Street 

New Orleans, LA 

OPEN PRESS 

                                                

Saturday, August 28, 2010 - Additional information will be released when it
becomes available. 

  

Sunday, August 29, 2010 - Additional information will be released when it
becomes available. 


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