Ep. 32: Who Will Pay for Trump's Plan to Bail Out Coal?
We all remember the financial and auto bailouts during the Great Recession. They arguably saved significant parts of the economy from even further damage. The Trump administration says the federal gov...
3 Jan 201820min
Ep 31: The Incredible Shrinking Monuments
A few weeks ago, President Trump approved the largest rollback of federal land protection in our country's history. Trump's announcement to drastically slash the size of two national monuments in Uta...
21 Dec 201727min
Ep. 30: Meet the Scientist Standing Up to Scott Pruitt
Can scientists who get grant money from the Environmental protection agency be objective enough to serve on its advisory boards? According to Administrator Scott Pruitt, the answer is "no." Today's ep...
6 Dec 201717min
Ep. 29: Living With Oil and Gas
The Trump administration has been pulling back federal environmental regulations as fast as it can. The legal argument is that states should be the ones to decide what level of environmental protectio...
29 Nov 201729min
Ep. 28: A Profound Shift in Environmental Protection
In October, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt ordered scientists who receive EPA grants to either end their grants or get off EPA scientific advisory boards. What about ...
16 Nov 201736min
Ep. 27: Is Ryan Zinke *really* a 'Teddy Roosevelt Guy'?
About three quarters of the 640 million acres of land that the federal government owns is managed by the Department of the Interior. And under the leadership of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, the Depa...
8 Nov 201730min
Ep 26: Roads, Bridges and the Future of Civilization
As Congress pays out more than 36 billion dollars in disaster relief, the General Accounting Office recommends that the federal government find ways to minimize the economic impacts of climate change....
2 Nov 201721min
Ep. 25: Global Warming: How Bad Could it Be?
The NY Magazine article "The Uninhabitable Earth" presents a portrait of a worst case scenario of climate change in which the planet gets so hot, humans can no longer live there. It imagines a future ...
18 Okt 201720min
