Carnegie Mellon University To Host 14th Annual

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Anne Watzman <aw16 () andrew cmu edu>
Date: October 18, 2004 12:31:22 PM EDT
To: sthayer () ri cmu edu, cfrieze () cs cmu edu
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Subject: sej meeting

Scott, FYI:  Anne



Contact: Chriss Swaney                                          For immediate release:
412-268-5776 Oct. 18, 2004

Carnegie Mellon University To Host 14th Annual
Society of Environmental Journalists Conference

PITTSBURGH--More than 600 journalists, scientists, educators, government
officials, business leaders, environmental advocates and others will
participate in the Society of Environmental Journalists 14th annual
conference October 20-24 at Carnegie Mellon University. The conference,
designed to improve and increase news coverage of environmental issues,
will feature discussions by key policy decision makers, Hollywood
celebrities and world-class environmental researchers.

The five-day conference kicks off Oct. 20 with a celebrity panel 
discussing how Hollywood influences environmental policy and 
policymakers from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the historic Pittsburgh Athletic 
Association in the city's Oakland
section.

Actors Ted Danson and Mimi Rogers, and Myron Ebell, director of
the Competitive Enterprise Institute, will participate in a discussion
moderated by New York Times reporter Andy Revkin.

A series of mini-tours through environmentally historic western 
Pennsylvania will begin at 7 a.m. Oct. 21. Journalists will see and 
experience a cache of "Rustbelt" success stories, including the world's 
biggest and cleanest steel coking plant in Clairton, Pa., to treks to 
Johnstown to discuss dam removal issues and Frank Lloyd Wright's 
Fallingwater house to discuss green building design.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson
Riverkeeper and president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, will speak at 
7:30
p.m. Oct. 21 at the Carnegie Museum Lecture Hall about the Bush
Administration's environmental record.

The conference moves back to Carnegie Mellon at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 22 in 
the University Center with a welcome by University President Jared L. 
Cohon and a keynote speech by Gov. Michael Leavitt, administrator of 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The Saturday, Oct. 23, University Center program features a news-making
plenary on "Science and Politics" at 11 a.m. The panel, moderated by
National Public Radio's Ira Flatow, will discuss issues ranging from
whether science is really apolitical to what the possible new scientific
research standards will be from the powerful Office of Management and
Budget. Other panel members for this plenary include Cornelia Dean, 
senior
science writer of The New York Times; Paul Gilman, assistant 
administrator
for research and development and agency science advisor for the U.S. 
EPA;
Neal Lane, former director of the National Science Foundation and a
professor at Rice University; Raymond Orbach, director of the science
office at the U.S. Department of Energy; and Russell Train, chairman
emeritus of World Wildlife.

In addition to these keynotes and plenary events, journalists will 
participate in more than 20 consecutive panels designed to debate 
everything from wastewater to climate change.

The  conference taps the expertise of researchers from all over North 
America, including world-renowned Carnegie Mellon researchers such as 
Granger Morgan, head of a newly formed $6.9 million center designed to 
study the uncertainties inherent in climate change, and Chris 
Hendrickson and Lester Lave, co-directors of the university's Green 
Design Initiative.

Other conference panel experts include David Garman, assistant 
secretary at the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy;
Christian Turner, first secretary, energy and environment for the 
British
Embassy in Washington, D.C., and John Bachman, associate director of
science for the U.S. Environmental Agency's Office of Air Quality 
Planning
and Standards.

An exhibit hall featuring more than 30 environmental booths
and products will be open for traffic Oct. 22-23 in the University 
Center
gym. Deadline press are invited to cover single events, but full
participation requires conference registration. For complete details on 
the
Carnegie Mellon/SEJ conference events, locations and registration, 
please
see the Web site of the Society of Environmental Journalists at 
www.sej.org.
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Anne Watzman, director
Public Relations
School of Computer Science
412-268-3830


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Anne Watzman, director
Public Relations
School of Computer Science
412-268-3830

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