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Ep. 283: After the Smitty’s Provide explosion, issues for Lake Pontchartrain


This week on Behind The Lens, within the wake of the current explosion at Smitty’s Provide in Roseland, a circulate of unidentified contaminants has made its means down the Tangipahoa River and is seen at the very least as far downriver as Ponchatoula.

Observers fear in regards to the results on the river, the chance contamination may attain Lake Pontchartrain and much more worrying, that the pollution may make their means into the meals chain.

Our friends this week are Lens environmental reporter Delaney Nolan, and editor of the Lens, Katy Reckdahl.

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Carolyne Heldman has been in media for 35 years, most just lately as Govt Director at an NPR member station in Colorado the place she was chargeable for new multi-platform content material initiatives, strategic…
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