New Houses (Katrina) & Toxic Drywall - Fri 6:05pm

Adding insult to injury, residents all along the Gulf Coast are gutting their houses because they were rebuilt after Hurricanes Rita and Katrina with toxic drywall. Jim Vallette of the Healthy Building Network [1] explains how the drywall came to include toxic ash and other wastes from coal-fired power plants in China. And, the World Bank has approved a loan that will create one of the world's largest coal-fired power plants. The plant emits 23 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. Desmond D'Sa of the Environmental Alliance of South Africa talks about the project.