Ruckelshaus Lecture and Panel Discussion

William Ruckelshaus, the first administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, presented a lecture entitled "Environmental Protection in the face of Population and Economic Growth" and participated in a panel discussion April 19, 2006. His lecture dealt with sustaining environmental protection in the face of population and economic growth, particularly in democracies around the world. The panel discussion which followed dealt with Ruckelshaus' address and related issues in environmental policy. Panel members included Ruckelshaus, Marcus Peacock, current deputy administrator at EPA; Bernard D. Goldstein, M.D., former dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, an environmental health specialist, and a former officer with the U.S. Public Health Service and assistant administrator for research and development at EPA; and Paul Portney, dean of the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona in Tucson and former president of Resources for the Future.