PDX-Earth Episode 88
PDX-Earth Episode 88 Today's show discusses the growing battle over water - both real and imagined - between Donald Trump and the State of California, Trump's surprise dismissal of the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general, evidence that global warming caused the Los Angeles…

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PDX-Earth Episode 85
Today's show discusses the runaway wildfires devastating Los Angeles and its surrounding neighborhoods, Donald Trump's opposition to wind power, the odyssey of Jimmy Carter's White House solar panels, how rising seas might sink major ports, an interview with Oregon Capital Chronicle reporter Alex…

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PDX-Earth Episode 81
Today's show discusses why the Biden Administration is rushing to get Inflation Reduction Act money out the door before Donald Trump arrives, the Trump Administration's plans to gut environmental programs, a lifeline for the Monarch butterfly and the Canada lynx, the disappointing results…

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PDX-Earth Episode 80
PDX-Earth Episode 80 Top stories include why the Biden Administration is asking Congress for $100 billion for disaster relief, the White House's refusal to back a cap on plastic production as part of United Nations treaty, heat and drought across the U.S., Bird…

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PDX-Earth Episode 79
PDX-Earth Episode 79 Today's show discusses how we know 2024 will be the hottest year on record - for the 2nd straight year, why the U.N. thinks rich nations should help poor nations battle climate change, the oil industry's alarming wish list for…

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PDX-Earth Episode 77
Why the world is on track to get twice as hot by 2100 rather than 1.5 degrees Celsius as agreed, Maine's request that hunters not eat the deer, turkeys and other animals they shoot due to "forever chemicals" in the meat, the extinction…

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PDX-Earth Episode 75
A discussion of the EPA's list of top greenhouse gas emitters, the Supreme Court's take on the Clean Water Act, the cyber-threats leveled at meteorologists in the post-Hurricane Milton misinformation mayhem, a new national marine sanctuary off the coast of Central California, how…

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PDX-Earth Episode 74
Updates as Hurricane Milton takes aim at central Florida, why 2023 was the driest for rivers in three decades, the resurgence of deforestation, the solar power boom in Africa, the return of salmon to the Klamath River, California's ban on octopus farming, the…

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PDX-Earth Episode 73
Today's episode looks at how candidates handled climate questions in the Vice Presidents' debate, the fallout from Atlanta's chemical fire, the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to re-think giving Chevron the green light to produce plastic fuel, the case for endangered fireflies, Portland's 2nd…

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