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Hosts
Shannon Vickery
North Carolina Now
Tom Linden
Medical Journalism Program
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Panelists
John Tallmadge
Chair, Solutions to Sprawl Campaign
North Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club
John Tallmadge is among the gubernatorial appointees to the North Carolina Legislative Smart Growth Commission. He is also the volunteer chair of the Solutions to Sprawl Campaign for the North Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club. Professionally, John has been a Transportation Planner with the Triangle Transit Authority in the Raleigh-Durham region of North Carolina since 1997. He has primary responsibility for the planning of the TTA bus services, including coordinating feeder bus system planning for the regional rail project with other service providers in the region. John has a Masters of City and Regional Planning from UNC - Chapel Hill and a B.A. in Political Science, French, and International Relations from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Sheila Holman
Chief of the Attainment Branch, Division of Air Quality
NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Sheila Holman has been Chief of the Attainment Planning Branch in the North Carolina Department of Environment, and Natural Resources, Division of Air Quality since January 1993. While in this position, Sheila has directed the development of the State implementation plans for the nonattainment areas in North Carolina. Sheila coordinated the efforts of one of the four modeling centers in the Ozone Transport Assessment Group (OTAG) to better understand the transport of ozone precursors. Sheila has also coordinated the development and implementation of the North Carolina Air Awareness Program. Sheila graduated from North Carolina State University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering.
Steven Wing
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven Wing received his PhD in epidemiology from UNC-CH where he has been on the faculty since 1985. He teaches and conducts research in the area of occupational and environmental health and is a member of the American Public Health Association. Current projects include health effects of exposures to ionizing radiation in the nuclear industry; environmental justice in North Carolina; health impacts of industrial animal agriculture; health of women slaughterhouse workers; and environmental health research ethics.
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Bill Jackson
Air Resource Specialist
U.S. Forest Service
Bill Jackson has worked as an Air Resource Specialist for the USDA Forest Service for the past 10 years. Though he examines all aspects of how air pollution impacts the forest environment his area of expertise is how ground-level ozone impacts forest trees. Mr. Jackson worked as a Plant Pathologist for the Forest Service for 7 years prior to moving to western North Carolina. He conducted his college studies at Albion College, The University of Michigan, The University of Minnesota, and West Virginia University.
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Bundy Lane
Hog Farmer from Gates County
Bundy Lane has owned his family farm in Gates, NC for five years. As an 8th generation farmer, Bundy comes from a family of farmers who have owned the land since the 1960s. Before that, part of his family was involved in sharecropping and the other part in farming. Bundy farms hogs, cattle, cotton, peanuts, corn, soybeans and occasionally grains. Living on the farm with his wife, Marinda, and child, Tucker, Bundy has a keen interest in protecting the environment and has a 1991 BS from NC State University in Animal Science. Since he graduated, he has been interested in the environmental issues facing hog farmers.
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Philip Bromberg
Director, Center for Environmental Medicine and Lung Biology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Philip A. Bromberg is the director for the Center for Environmental Medicine and Lung Biology at UNC-Chapel Hill. In addition, he is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine for the Department of Medicine at UNC-CH. He has done extensive research on the effects of ozone and carbon monoxide on human airways, including several recent publications on complications arising from ozone exposure to people with asthma, allergies and lung injuries. Dr. Bromberg graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from Harvard Medical School in 1952. Other honors include a 1990 US EPA Scientific and Technology Achievement Award.
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