More on Katrina and toxics

Paul Fagiolo said in comments to this post below:

My experience with industry (Federal industry) predominates near the DC beltway so I am at a loss for professional connections to NO, LA. Catherine Mayo posted a good find - site chemical inventories provided iaw Community Right-to-Know regulations. If I had the time (or the staff), those inventories would be a start and can be correlated to a map of damaged areas for at least a cursory glimpse of potential releases and impacts.

But I presume that local environmental professionals are much farther down a better path. But as I posted before, that gets into the territory of insider information and public (press) releases are typically obtuse when not mandated otherwise.

Also, in doing environmental AND safety engineering and management I fully understands the practical precedence of human safety over environmental issues. So while I am very curious as a former director of ES&H teams about the environmental variables, I am also trying to be patient. I don't have to tell you that there's a big mess to clean up on many fronts.

But again, if anyone knows any details from inside the profession....