known_for article_title name occupation organization
environmental health wilma subra
 wilma subra chemist subra company
wilma subra

wilma subra -lrb- born 1943 -rrb- is an american environmental scientist .
she is president of the subra company , an environmental consulting firm .
subra was born in morgan city , louisiana , and was raised there and in nearby bayou vista .
her father was a chemist , and her grandfather an oyster fisherman .
she obtained a bachelor 's degree in microbiology and chemistry in 1965 from the university of southwestern louisiana in lafayette , and her master 's a year later .
from 1967 until 1981 sabra worked for the gulf south research institute .
she founded the subra company in may 1981 to help people facing problems because of environmental health issues .
subra served for seven years as vice-chair of the environmental protection agency 's -lrb- epa -rrb- national advisory council for environmental policy and technology , for six years on the epa 's national environmental justice advisory council , and for five years on the national advisory committee of the us representative to the commission for environmental cooperation .
she appeared in the 2010 documentary gasland .
