What: Webinar on Danskammer & Public Health
When: Wednesday, May 6
Time: 5:30 pm ET
Where: Online (Zoom link will be sent upon registration)
*If you register and do not recieve the link info please email Jmullen@scenichudson.org after checking your spam folders*

Please join Scenic Hudson & others, to learn more about the dangers of Danskammer, a new fracked gas plant proposed for the shore of the Hudson River in Newburgh.
Dr. David Carpenter, MD, Director of SUNY’s Institute for Health and the Environment will discuss the impacts of gas plants on air quality and public health, with a special focus on respiratory illness.
Newburgh City Council member Anthony Grice will speak about the risks to community health and welfare posed by the plant.
Scenic Hudson Director of Advocacy Hayley Carlock will moderate. Q&A will follow.

May 6th Webinar Speaker Bios

David O. Carpenter is a public health physician who serves as director of the Institute for Health and the Environment, a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization, as well as a professor of environmental health sciences at UAlbany's School of Public Health. He previously served as Director of the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health, and as Dean of the University at Albany School of Public Health. Carpenter, who received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, has more than 435 peer-reviewed publications, 6 books and 50 reviews and book chapters to his credit.

Anthony Grice was born and raised in the City of Newburgh. He attended the Newburgh Enlarged City School District and from there went to SUNY Orange, Virginia Union University, Mount Saint Mary College, and SUNY New Paltz. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and an active community volunteer. He is married to Hasina Grice, the owner of Perfect Sweets, a made to order bakery, and the father to three boys.