Which Way, L.A.?
The Environment
Environmentalists from around the world say the US is failing to keep its promises to protect the environment. It's been five years since the Earth Summit in Rio. What has the US done? And what about local efforts to clean up the air and the water?
Bruce Hamilton: National conservation director of the Sierra Club; oversees national and international programs. Fred Singer, Phd: Professor of physics emeritus from University of Virginia; first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service; founding (?) member of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, a non-profit think tank of senior scientists. Craig Perkins: Director of Environmental and Public Works Management, City of Santa Monica. Lynn Scarlet: Director of public policy research at the Reason Foundation Gail Feuer: Senior attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council, James Lents, Phd.: Executive officer, South Coast Air Quality Management District. David Baron: National Public Radio science reporter, covering the Earth Summit in New York. David Brooks: Senior editor, Weekly Standard. David Corn: Washington editor, The Nation
topic: Report from the U.N. Earth Summit in New York