democrat, rockfalls, for paul harrison. caller: i agree with pretty much everything that's paul harrison there is saying. the collar that was just on has some very good -- caller that was just one has some very good points. i would like to see paul harrison take these views to washington and present them to obama. and present them to congress. host: what exactly was the point you wanted him to respond to? caller: the rich get richer and the poor get poorer every day. it is about american creed, american policies, and i just feel that more of this should have been all placed years ago when the oil industry started, you know, they have been knowing about this for so long. host: final thoughts from our guest. guest: this is a big moment for changes in washington, and this is one of them. we need to of a national conversation about our relationship with the production of fossil fuels, oil and gas, and how that is invested in the development of our communities, and transition to a place where we are not dependent on foreign oil,

paul harrison joins us from the environmental defense fund, examining long term proposals for restoring the gulf coast reason. and peter decoursey

host: at the table, paul harrison, here to talk to us about the gulf coast restoration. for now, assessment of oil spill damage is a joint effort. the government and bp working together but it's to the concern of some. first off, what's your own assessment of what's happening down there? guest: well, first the important thing to remember is that this is the largest single event environmental disaster we've had in our lifetime and it is still very much going on. the oil is still coming out. some of it is being collected, a lot is not being collected. it is still hitting the fragile louisiana marshes, gulf coast beaches. and we still have at least a month, probably two months even if the relief wells are effective, to have oil out in the area hitting the marshes, hitting the beaches. so as all of this is happening, as the ongoing effort to shut this off is happening, we are having to figure out what the impacts are on the environment. so having -- and it's important to remember that the -- this is not something we've planned for, this is not something we've experienced bbf

host: let's get the phone numbers up for paul harrison, with the environmental defense fund.'re talking here about gulf coast restoration. our guest has been educated at the college of william and mary, also has a law degree from fordham university in the bronx new york, was a trial lawyer at the u.s. justice department from 2000-2006. currently senior director for mississippi river and east coast center for rivers and deltas, part of the environmental defense fund, senior direct there are. and as we look at restoration, mr. harrison, what's the prescription from your area? if you don't quite know how bad it is yet, how are you going to get your head around how to restore things? what's your process going to be? guest: well, one of the things that people need to remember about the louisiana wetlands in particular and the gulf of mexico is that these are places where environmental damage has been happening for the past 80, 100 years. you can take the louisiana wetlands, for example, because we made some decisions on how we manage the mississippi river, the wetlands are actuall

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