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EPA, SEMARNAT IMPROVING BORDER ENVIRONMENT, CHILDREN’S HEALTH;WHITMAN AND LICHTINGER HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE IN JUAREZ

Release Date: 10/03/2001
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Note to Correspondents

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Mexico’s SEMARNAT (Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales), at a press conference on Thursday, will discuss future plans to address environmental and public health issues facing communities along the U.S.-Mexico border and will announce plans to open a new health center funded by the USEPA that will help Mexican pediatricians more effectively treat children’s health problems caused or aggravated by environmental factors.

WHO: Christie Whitman, U.S. EPA Administrator
Victor Lichtinger, Secretary of Mexico’s Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT)

WHERE: North Wastewater Plant
1155 Ortez Rubio
Colnia Satalite
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

WHEN: Thursday, October 4
3:00 p.m.

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