Theo Colborn, Ph.D., named in 2007 a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” will speak at the Pinecrest Event Center at 7:00 p.m., July 22nd, 2008. Laura Amos, a Colorado citizen, will also provide a personal account of her experience with local drilling. This presentation is sponsored by the Front Range Environmental Resources Coalition, an organization established to provide information and safeguard air and water resources along the Front Range.
Theo Colborn, a dynamic, internationally known environmental health analyst, is a resident of Paonia, Colorado. She is best known for her studies on the health effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals. She is President of “The Endocrine Disruption Exchange,” that provides objective, technical information about endrocine disruption(the endocrine system is instrumental in regulating metabolism, growth, development and puberty, tissue function, and mood) in wildlife and humans.
In view of the proposed local gas drilling, Theo Colborn’s research (about associated chemicals released into the environment of surrounding neighborhoods) is relevant and important to us all. All of Colorado (land, wildlife and people) is vulnerable to health consequences, due to the state’s current oil and gas boom.
More details to follow soon.
Dr. Theo Colborn, Ph.D., environmental health analyst, former advisor to the EPA and named one of Time’s 2007 “Heroes of the Environment” will speak on the health effects of the chemicals and products used in natural gas production in Colorado.