Environment/Climate

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Lincoln County Spray Ban Reactions

Airs at: Thu, 06/01/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Yesterday, KBOO reported on the victory of a ballot measure in Lincoln County, Oregon, that bans the aerial spraying of pesticides and herbicides. It also establishes community environmental rights, pre-empting so-called “corporate rights,” which lead to local jurisdictions... Read more

Trump Withdraws US from Climate Deal

Airs at: Thu, 06/01/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
President Trump announced today that he is withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate agreement. This comes after several days of speculation on what the predictably unpredictable president would do after meeting with European leaders, who tried to pressure him in... Read more

Lincoln County Aerial Spray Ban Passes

Airs at: Wed, 05/31/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A ballot measure has passed in the Lincoln County May Special Election which bans the aerial spraying of pesticides. It also includes language pre-empting corporate rights in favor of community rights, and is the first such law to be passed directly by voters in the nation.... Read more

Interview with Shirley Minor, Daughter of Vanport Survivor

Airs at: Mon, 05/29/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Today was the last day of the Vanport Mosaic Festival, celebrating the history and impact of Vanport, once Oregon's second largest city before it was destroyed by a flood and neglect in 1948. It was located in the area that is now Delta Park. Shirley Minor's father was pres... Read more

Climate Change Inaction: two takes

Airs at: Mon, 05/29/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    Norm Diamond interviews Kari Marie Norgaard, Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, and author of Living In Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life. They discuss climate change unresponsiveness, the phenomeno... Read more

Splintering World Systems

Airs at: Mon, 05/29/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    Bill Resnick talks with the editor of Foreign Policy in Focus, blogger, writer,  and author of the novel Splinterlands, John Feffer, about his nightmare of the breakdown of the world system in the next half-century.     Read more

Standing Rock Legal Defense

Airs at: Mon, 05/29/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jan Haaken talks with Jacob Reisberg, an attorney who just returned to Portland after doing legal work in North Dakota in alliance with the Water Protector Legal Collective and the Freshet Collective for activists arrested in the No DAPL actions at Standing Rock. They di... Read more

MOSIER ONE YEAR LATER

Airs at: Fri, 06/02/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
On June 3, 2016, the small town of Mosier in the Columbia River Gorge, near Hood River, made regional and national news of the most unfortunate kind. Firefighters battled for 14 hours to contain a dangerous oil fire from a derailed 96-car Union Pacific train carrying highly... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 29, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 05/29/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel hosts this Memorial Day episode, which features music by Bob Marley, "War"; The Clash, "Washington Bullets"; and  Curtis Mayfield, "We Got to have Peace"; as well as these segments:  Jan Haaken talks with Jacob Reisberg about Standing Rock Legal Defense Bil... Read more

REFINERY TOWN

Airs at: Mon, 05/29/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
This program was originally broadcast on March 20. 2017 In 2012 a massive fire ripped through the Chevron Richmond Refinery, sending a towering plume of toxic smoke into the air over Richmond, California.  For over a hundred years, Richmond was a classic company town, whose... Read more