[CPEO-BIF] Katrina and the natural environment

[Lenny Siegel]

GOOD, BAD, UGLY
Katrina's effects on environment sometimes surprising

By MIKE KELLER
Biloxi Sun Herald (MS)
September 8, 2006

A year ago, Katrina wreaked havoc on many aspects of life in South 
Mississippi. Often concern for the environment and our natural resources 
took a back seat to the immediacy of rescue, relief and recovery. But, 
as so often happens even when there is not calamity swirling around a 
place, the direct relationship is forgotten between environment and 
public health, resources and economic health.

FEMA trailers and illness-inducing formaldehyde. Storm debris and 
untreated sewage decaying in the waterways. Debate about 
Katrina-deposited toxic sludge. Ten billion board feet of commercial 
timber blown down and not a local oyster to be seen. Asbestos taking 
wind when structures are crushed to the ground.

But with the year-mark passed, the natural world - like people - heals 
with time.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/business/15467162.htm

-- 
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org