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Wednesday September 23, 2009

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10:00Natural Gas

Advances in natural gas drilling techniques for natural gas challenge long-held assumptions about U.S. dependence on traditional energy sources: Opportunities and challenges for U.S. natural gas industry.

Guests

Terry Engelder, Professor of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University

Tom Gjelten, correspondent, NPR, and author of 'Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause.'

Theo Colborn, environmental health analyst and founder of the Endocrine Disruption Exchange

Chuck Stanley, chief operating officer, Questar Corporation, a natural gas-focused energy company

11:00Peter Maass: "Crude World" (Knopf)

The curse of oil: A journalist describes the poverty, human suffering and political instability that plague many of the world's oil producing countries.

Guests

Peter Maass, contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine; author of "Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War"

Diane Rehm and Peter Maass Diane and author Peter Maass following the Sep. 23 show. Courtesy of: WAMU
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