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New Power Plant Rules
To replace the Clean Power plan the Obama Administration failed to get past the courts the published new rules for existing coal plants and new gas power plants that tighten standards for the plants’ mercury emissions, wastewater, and coal ash. They also require coal power plants to curb their CO2 emissions over time.
Protecting India’s Forest
The 2024 Goldman environmental prize winner from Asia mobilized his community to protect the Hasdeo Aranya forests in the state of Chhattisgarh from coal mining. These forests are known as the “lungs of Chhattisgarh”, and a report from the Wildlife Institute of India estimated that around two-thirds of local annual income is tied to forest resources. Through a translator, Alok Shukla discusses his successful anti-mining campaign.
Fighting Pollution Linked to Online Shopping
The 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize recipient from North America, Andrea Vidaurre led a campaign that convinced the California Air Resources Board to make rules designed to decrease air pollution and lead to zero-emission trucking by 2036. These rules are aimed at reducing diesel pollution related to the online shopping industry. Andrea Vidaurre discusses her activism.
Plastic Pollution Treaty Talks
The fourth meeting of the UN treaty talks aimed to address plastic pollution took place this April in Ottawa, Canada. The goal is to have a legally binding international agreement on plastics pollution by the end of 2024. Professor Maria Ivanova, Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University gives an update on what happened at these most recent talks.
Wake! Up!: Paper Wasp
Living on Earth’s Explorer in Residence Mark Seth Lender aids a paper trying to get outdoors.
U.S. Funding Fossil Fuels Abroad
Despite an international agreement to phase out financing for fossil fuel projects abroad, the Biden administration recently approved a $500 million dollar loan guarantee for an oil and gas drilling project in Bahrain. We explain why such actions also hold other nations back from ending this practice.
EPA Finally Bans Asbestos
Asbestos is highly toxic to humans and after years of court and congressional battles the EPA is finally banning all uses of asbestos in the U.S. Maria Doa of the Environmental Defense Fund joined Living on Earth’s Jenni Doering to discuss why it took so long and the anticipated public health benefits of the phaseout.
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New Power Plant Rules
To replace the Clean Power plan the Obama Administration failed to get past the courts the published new rules for existing coal plants and new gas power plants that tighten standards for the plants’ mercury emissions, wastewater, and coal ash. They also require coal power plants to curb their CO2 emissions over time.
Protecting India’s Forest
The 2024 Goldman environmental prize winner from Asia mobilized his community to protect the Hasdeo Aranya forests in the state of Chhattisgarh from coal mining. These forests are known as the “lungs of Chhattisgarh”, and a report from the Wildlife Institute of India estimated that around two-thirds of local annual income is tied to forest resources. Through a translator, Alok Shukla discusses his successful anti-mining campaign.
Fighting Pollution Linked to Online Shopping
The 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize recipient from North America, Andrea Vidaurre led a campaign that convinced the California Air Resources Board to make rules designed to decrease air pollution and lead to zero-emission trucking by 2036. These rules are aimed at reducing diesel pollution related to the online shopping industry. Andrea Vidaurre discusses her activism.
This Week’s Show
May 10, 2024
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New Power Plant Rules
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To replace the Clean Power plan the Obama Administration failed to get past the courts the published new rules for existing coal plants and new gas power plants that tighten standards for the plants’ mercury emissions, wastewater, and coal ash. They also require coal power plants to curb their CO2 emissions over time.
Protecting India’s Forest
listen / download
The 2024 Goldman environmental prize winner from Asia mobilized his community to protect the Hasdeo Aranya forests in the state of Chhattisgarh from coal mining. These forests are known as the “lungs of Chhattisgarh”, and a report from the Wildlife Institute of India estimated that around two-thirds of local annual income is tied to forest resources. Through a translator, Alok Shukla discusses his successful anti-mining campaign.
Fighting Pollution Linked to Online Shopping
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The 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize recipient from North America, Andrea Vidaurre led a campaign that convinced the California Air Resources Board to make rules designed to decrease air pollution and lead to zero-emission trucking by 2036. These rules are aimed at reducing diesel pollution related to the online shopping industry. Andrea Vidaurre discusses her activism.
From the History Books
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Living on Earth contributor Peter Dykstra takes us on a trip back in time to a massive dust storm that covered the United States’ eastern seaboard in the 1930s, as well as the start of the Galapagos National Park in Ecuador.
Plastic Pollution Treaty Talks
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The fourth meeting of the UN treaty talks aimed to address plastic pollution took place this April in Ottawa, Canada. The goal is to have a legally binding international agreement on plastics pollution by the end of 2024. Professor Maria Ivanova, Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University gives an update on what happened at these most recent talks.
Wake! Up!: Paper Wasp
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Living on Earth’s Explorer in Residence Mark Seth Lender aids a paper trying to get outdoors.
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Field Note: "In Defense of Little Foxes"
Living on Earth Explorer-in-Residence Mark Seth Lender reflects on how experience and anthropocentrism color our perceptions of other species and how much we care about their well-being.
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Field Note: "Oh, Say Can You See?": Kingfisher on Long Island Sound
Living on Earth's Explorer in Residence Mark Seth Lender provides some context for his essay, "Oh, Say Can You See?" about a kingfisher on Long Island Sound.
Blog Series: Mark Seth Lender Field Notes
...Ultimately, if we are going prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we are going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them...
-- President Barack Obama, November 6, 2015 on why he declined to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline.
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