With Clean Air Watch’s Frank O’Donnell watching from the congressional pews, Barbara Boxer’s Environment and Public Works Committee this week put EPA Chief Steve Johnson on the stand, and Senator Boxer took him to task: "You are accountable to the American people, not special interests." Also, as an extra treat: the latest bizarre statements from Senator James Inhofe.
PART ONE (11 min) PART TWO (7 min)
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Lisa Margonelli: Oil on the Brain
- Thursday, 08 February 2007 20:50
- Written by William Craven
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An antidote to sometimes wonkish energy books, Lisa Margonelli‘s Oil on the Brain takes the reader from Margonelli’s local gas station to an Iranian oil platform in a refreshing up-close and personal style. Here she sits down with Betsy to highlight some of her most revealing journeys. LISTEN (10 min)
Heather Flores & Food Not Lawns
- Thursday, 08 February 2007 20:32
- Written by William Craven
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Is gardening a political act? In a very thoughtful interview, Heather Flores, author of the new book Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and your Neighborhood into a Community, makes the case that the garden is the key to re-cultivating our communities, our diets, and our urban spaces.
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Charles Lockwood and Green Building
- Thursday, 08 February 2007 17:45
- Written by William Craven
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Environmental and Real Estate Consultant Charles Lockwood shares with Betsy both the broad trends and nuanced particulars of the Green Building movement, and the influential municipalities across the United States that are the early-adopters of what will become the future of construction. LISTEN (12 min)
Upgrade Morro Bay’s Sewage Plant Now!
- Wednesday, 07 February 2007 19:55
- Written by Philippe Boucher
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Daniel Hinerfeld tells the sad and shocking story of the Morro-Bay Cayucos sewage plant that the city refuses to upgrade asap.
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