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April 10, 2025
PDX-Earth Episode 97
Today's show discusses the Trump Administration's decision to open half of U.S. Forest Service land to logging, Canada opts to drop its revolutionary carbon tax, the National Park Service's decision to whitewash - then un-whitewash - its Underground Railroad information, the National Weather…

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April 2, 2025
PDX-Earth Episode 96
PDX-Earth Episode 96 Today's show discusses why former Vice-President El Gore relocated his climate change work to Paris - but believes the Trump Administration can't stop the "sustainability revolution," why the scientist who discovered acid rain believes the U.S. could see a return…

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March 28, 2025
PDX-Earth Episode 95
PDX-Earth Episode 95 Today's show discusses how 3.7 million Californians now live in dangerous fire zones, why the NIH won't fund the health effect of climate change, the National Weather Service's decision to ground some of its weather balloons, the Oregon report that…

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March 24, 2025
PDX-Earth Episode 94
Today's show discusses the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to eliminate its scientific research branch, electric vehicles from China that are making big promises, the impact of bird flu on wild birds, how Oregon achieved a major electric vehicle milestone, an Oregon bill that…

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March 17, 2025
PDX-Earth Episode 93
Today's show discusses the Supreme Court's ruling against Republican red states over climate lawsuits, the North Sea tanker collision that is leaking jet fuel and toxic chemicals, the U.S. Interior's attempt to reduce protections for migratory birds, Portland General Electric's controversial plan to…

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March 17, 2025
PDX-Earth Episode 92
Today's show discussed how Donald Trump's job cuts at the National Weather Service and other federal agencies have endangered the public's safety - as a federal judge believes, the Supreme Court's EPA water quality ruling, how El Paso converted waste water to drinking…

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February 26, 2025
PDX-Earth Episode 90
Today's show discusses President Trump's relentless attacks on the environment - including shelving a key climate change report, banning paper straws in favor of plastic, and barring Associated Press reporters from the White House for refusing to recognize the "Gulf of America in…

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September 30, 2024
PDX-Earth Episode 72
This week's show examines California's latest ban on plastic shopping bags, a federal judge's decision not to protect marine mammals in Mississippi, Hurricane Helene's threat to the Florida coastline, mass migrations that are already moving coastal communities into the American heartland, Republicans' attempt…

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March 22, 2024
PDX-Earth Episode 54
Discussion of the Environmental Protection Agency's long-awaited asbestos ban, former President Donald Trump's increasingly violent talk about electric vehicles, the opening of America's first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, global rankings for the cities with the worst air pollution, the April launch for American…

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