Fire, Wind & Fire
What A Day14 Sep 2020

Fire, Wind & Fire

Wildfires raged on over the weekend in the West, with millions of acres burned, thousands displaced, and dozens of lives lost. Aside from fighting climate change, one of the most effective ways to manage these fires is regular controlled burns, which is something indigenous tribes were doing for centuries.

Two meat processing facilities were fined a measly total of $29,000 after government regulators at OSHA determined that the plants didn’t do enough to protect workers. OSHA has gotten almost 10,000 Covid-related workplace safety requests so far, and these are the only two companies that have been cited and fined.

And in headlines: controversies surrounding Disney’s “Mulan,” Israel imposes a second nation-wide lockdown, and Mike Bloomberg pledges to donate 100 million to Joe Biden’s Florida campaign.

Show links:

"They Know How To Prevent Forest Fires. Why Won't Anybody Listen?" https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen

"To Manage Wildfire, California Looks To What Tribes Have Known All Along" https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/899422710/to-manage-wildfire-california-looks-to-what-tribes-have-known-all-along

Episoder(1573)

How Trump's Hatred For Windmills Is Hurting All Of Us

How Trump's Hatred For Windmills Is Hurting All Of Us

President Donald Trump really, really, really hates wind and solar power. He made sure to make that point very clear during a Cabinet meeting last week, where he ranted about windmills for…way too lon...

5 Sep 202524min

Senator Van Hollen On Epstein: Release The Damn Files!

Senator Van Hollen On Epstein: Release The Damn Files!

Congress is back. It’s back and it has a lot of work to do. If Congress doesn’t fund the government by the end of September, the government will close up shop. And while Democrats have demanded meetin...

4 Sep 202522min

Putin Cozies Up To Modi And Xi

Putin Cozies Up To Modi And Xi

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and held hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Beijing this weekend. Their talks came during the annual Shanghai Coopera...

3 Sep 202521min

Chicago Caught In The Trump Administration's Crosshairs

Chicago Caught In The Trump Administration's Crosshairs

The Trump administration is preparing a major Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Chicago, and it may come as soon as this week. The details have been few and far between, but it would li...

2 Sep 202520min

Introducing Shadow Kingdom: Coal Survivor

Introducing Shadow Kingdom: Coal Survivor

The What A Day team is off. But we’re excited to bring you the first episode of Season 2 of Crooked’s award-winning limited series, Shadow Kingdom: Coal Survivor.On New Year’s Eve 1969, Jock Yablonski...

1 Sep 202542min

Cash Bail Keeps People In Jail

Cash Bail Keeps People In Jail

This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at ending cash bail in Washington D.C. and other jurisdictions around the country. He summarized the largely successful criminal justi...

29 Aug 202524min

Why Conservatism Is Dead In The Trump Era

Why Conservatism Is Dead In The Trump Era

President Donald Trump’s administration is full of sycophants. That was made quite apparent this week (if it wasn't already) during a three-hour-long televised Cabinet meeting. The lengthy meeting all...

28 Aug 202520min

Three Signs Of The Trumpification Of The Economy

Three Signs Of The Trumpification Of The Economy

In the federal government’s latest excursion into the private sector, the US announced last week that it took a 10% stake in Intel. The move comes after the Defense Department became the biggest share...

27 Aug 202524min

Populært innen Politikk og nyheter

giver-og-gjengen-vg
aftenpodden
forklart
aftenpodden-usa
popradet
i-retten
lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
stopp-verden
rss-gukild-johaug
det-store-bildet
fotballpodden-2
dine-penger-pengeradet
rss-ness
nokon-ma-ga
hanna-de-heldige
aftenbla-bla
bt-dokumentar-2
e24-podden
frokostshowet-pa-p5
rss-penger-polser-og-politikk