Former Secretary of State John Kerry discussed his latest push for public action against climate change. He also talked about President Donald Trump and Campaign 2020. This program is…
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Jane Fonda spoke at the National Press Club about the need to address climate change and why she was willing to be repeatedly arrested to raise awareness for the issue.
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The House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on the Environment held a hearing on the economic effects of climate change. This was the fifth hearing from House Oversight in a series on…
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Authors Nathaniel Rich (Losing Earth), David Wallace-Wells (The Uninhabitable Earth), Michael Klare (All Hell Breaking Loose), and Gilbert Gaul (The Geography of Risk) offered their…
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Bob Deans of the Natural Resources Defense Council talked about efforts to combat climate change.
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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine the impacts of wildfires on electric grid resiliency. Lawmakers asked about wildfire mitigation technology,…
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Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and environmental activists spoke at the U.S. Capitol on climate change, as part of weekly demonstrations occurring through the end of January called “Fire Drill…
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President George H. W. Bush talked to reporters about the Exxon-Valdez oil spill. Topics included the ecological and economic damage caused by the oil spill, federal assistance in both…
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Committee held hearings to review the environmental and maritime implications of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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This documentary is an update to the 1966 film “The Crooked River Dies.” WKYC-TV Cleveland returned to the Cuyahoga River to see how things had changed in five years. The camera observes some progress, but the…
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This 1966 documentary traces the 100-mile-long Cuyahoga River from its source to Cleveland, where it empties, polluted, into Lake Erie. It originally aired on WKYC-TV’s “Montage,” an…
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The Cuyahoga River fire of 1969 helped galvanize the clean water and environmental movements, even though it was not the worst fire the polluted river had seen. Historian David Stradling…
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Viewers responded to the question, “Do you support state and local bans on plastic?” States such as Oregon, California, New York and Hawaii have enacted laws that ban single-use plastic…
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2020 Democratic presidential candidates participated in the PBS NewsHour and Politico Democratic Debate in Los Angeles. Candidates included Joe Biden, Tom Steyer, Andrew Yang, Pete…
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Andrew Yang, a 2020 Democratic 2020 presidential candidate, participated in a student town hall focused on climate change hosted by Rob Hogg, a Democratic Iowa state senator. Students asked…
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Science writer Ruth Kassinger talked about her book, Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us, in which she reported on the many sustainable uses of algae.
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In 2014, gallons of a coal cleaning chemical leaked into the Elk River in West Virginia. Angie Rosser, a contributor to the book I’m Afraid of that Water, recounted the events leading up to the spill and the…
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Troubled Water author Seth Siegel discussed the safety of drinking water in the U.S.
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The Council on Foreign Relations held a discussion on Brazil’s Amazon rainforest and climate change concerns. Recent news stories concerned data released by Brazil’s National Institute for…
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Actor and environmental advocate Ted Danson testified on the environmental impacts of plastic pollution at a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing. At the time of the hearing Mr.…
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