CODE GREEN Articles & Commentary

Frank O’Donnell of Clean Air Watch returns to give us the inside scoop on how the EPA spun its industry-driven air quality standards. LISTEN (11 min) Call the head of the EPA Steve Johnson at 202-564-4700 and remind him that our health is not for sale.

Seatbelts. Airbags. Now Clean Air: California Deputy Attorney General Harrison Pollak breaks down the state’s potentially groundbreaking lawsuit against the Big Six Automakers. LISTEN (7 min)

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. LISTEN (12 min)

EcoTalk correspondent Shana Weber gives us the lowdown on the double-flush toilet.LISTEN (7:50 min)

Betsy about An Inconvenient Truth on KCBS.LISTEN (1 min)

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 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? LISTEN (12 min)

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.LISTEN

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. LISTEN George Black’s previous book was The Trout Paradox.More podcasts from NRDC.