U.S. EPA Teaches Students About Environment

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking a grassroots approach to saving the environment by teaching local students about water pollution, childhood asthma and lead.

Eighth grader Zoe Haynes performs a skit she and three other girls…who call themselves Glamorously Fabulous…created about endangered species.


HAYNES:DO YOU KNOW THAT I COULD GET 1-HUNDRED THOUSAND FOR ONE TIGER PELT.

GIRL: THAT MAY BE TRUE MS HAYNES BUT THERE ARE ONLY 7, 500 TIGERS LEFT IN THE WORLD. DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ENDANGERED SPECIES?

As a matter of fact Zoe knows a lot about endangered species…especially now...after she and 14 other area students spent seven weeks this summer in EPA’s Student Environmental Development Program.

HAYNES: I THINK I’M PROBABLY GONG TO TAKE NOT ONLY ENDANGERED SPECIES FACTS BUT THE MOST LEADERSHIP SKILLS BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU LEARN A LOT ABOUT BEING A LEADER AND HOW HAVING TO LEAD PEOPLE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND REALIZING THAT WHEN YOU ARE A LEADER YOU ARE WRONG AND NOT GOING OH NO I WASN’T WRONG.

Larry Brown is the Program Director.

BROWN: THESE ARE THE FUTURE DOCTORS, LAWYERS AND EVEN POSSIBLY PRESIDENTS AND THEY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT. THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO SPREAD THAT ON TO THEIR COMMUNITIES.

He says the DC program is in its seventh year.

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