California sues Big Six Automakers
Seatbelts. Airbags. Now Clean Air: California Deputy Attorney General Harrison Pollak breaks down the state’s potentially groundbreaking lawsuit against the Big Six Automakers.
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Author: William Craven
Charlotte Brody: Breastfeeding, Safe Cosmetics, and an Icon’s life.
Charlotte Brody of Healthcare without Harm, Commonweal, and the Safe Cosmetics Campaign tells Betsy about the breastfeeding revolution of the seventies, how there are no health standards for cosmetics, and the results of a toxics test on her own body.
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Toiletbowl Conservation
EcoTalk correspondent Shana Weber gives us the lowdown on the double-flush toilet.
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Andy Revkin: Global Pledges
New
York Times global environment reporter Andy Revkin discusses
the monumental pledges made at the Clinton Global Initiative, and
evidence that Exxon may finally be acknowledging climate reality. LISTEN (18 min)
More on his blog and his books The North Pole Was Here and The Burning Season.
Music: Uncle Wade
Jerry McNerney: No to Richard Pombo
Jerry McNerney is running as a Democrat for California’s 11th Congressional District. Can he beat 7-term Republican Congressman Richard ‘the Plunderer’ Pombo and save the earth in the process?
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Frank O’Donnell: particle soot matters.
Frank O’Donnell of Clean Air Watch explains the ongoing battle about the revision of the EPA’s 1997 standards for particle soot. Particle soot is the deadliest of widespread air pollutants. Big polluters don’t want tougher standards that new sience requires. Who is going to win: politics or science? Our health is at stake.
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George Black: The Bamboo Fly Rod
NRDC‘s Daniel Hinerfeld takes us fly-fishing with George Black of
OnEarth Magazine about his new book Casting a Spell: The Bamboo
Fly-Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection.
George Black’s previous book was The Trout Paradox.
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Helen Caldicott: Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer
Helen Caldicott MD, lifelong crusader against nuclear energy, joins
Betsy to discuss why Nuclear Power is not the answer, and her new
book of the same name.
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James Lovelock: the revenge of Gaia
James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia theory of global
interconnectedness, tells Betsy why nuclear power may be a necessary
alternative, and about the startling revelations in his new book the revenge of Gaia.
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Andreas Klugescheid: BMW Hydrogen 7
BMW’s slogan has always
been “the relentless pursuit of perfection”.BMW spokesman Andreas
Klugescheid tells how they’ve come one step closer with the introduction
of their Hydrogen Hybrid, the Hydrogen 7.
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