Scientists, Citizens Speak Out for Rules to Reduce Oil & Gas Air Pollution
Channel: Earthworks
Date: 2015-09-23

Press conference at Dallas City Hall where scientists, impacted citizens and a faith leader will speak to the importance of EPA's proposed rules to limit methane and associated air pollution from oil and gas development.

Speakers will be:

Reverend Mel Caraway is a member of the board of directors of Texas Impact/Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy, a statewide religious grassroots network that works to advance state public policies that are consistent with universally held social principles of the Abrahamic traditions. He recently retired as pastor of Button Memorial United Methodist Church in Little Elm.

Gunnar Schade, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University at College Station. He has over 20 years of experience in air quality measurements and currently oversees air quality research in the Eagle Ford shale area.

Krystal Henagan represents over 32,000 Moms Clean Air Force members in Texas. A Texas native, her six-year-old-son developed asthma when the family moved to San Antonio, downwind of the Eagle Ford Shale. Today she is fighting on behalf of all Texas families who are suffering due to pollution from the oil & gas industry.  

Mahdi Ahmadi, Ph.D. candidate, is a PhD candidate (in Philosophy) and Master student (in Mechanical and Energy Engineering) at the University of North Texas. For his doctoral dissertation, he is investigating the interaction between science and democracy in the case of fracking under Dr. Adam Briggle. In engineering, he is analyzing the ozone problem of the DFW area using photochemical modeling and statistical tools under Professor Kuruvilla John. They have recently published on the relationship between ozone trends and shale gas activities in the DFW area.

Cathy McMullen, is a nurse and the founder/former president of Denton Drilling Awareness Group. After fruitlessly working for years with state and local officials to better protect Denton citizens from fracking-related health impacts, she led the first successful ballot initiative to ban fracking in a major Texas city.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.epa.gov/airquality/oilandgas/actions.html
http://www.methanefacts.org/