Wisconsons Water Is Laden With PFAS, Republicans Want to Give the Polluters Immunity
Published Date: July 19, 2024
Episode: 408
Erik Kanter, President of Clean Wisconsin joins to explain how republicans are withholding funds for clean up until the legislature passes a bill immunizing polluters from prosecution for polluting the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites.
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John Rumpler, Clean Water Director of Environment America; Research and Policy Center, explains how protecting our "ephemera" streams has a major impact on our water supply. With last years Supreme Court Ruling excepting "ephemeral" streams from the Clean Water Act, and laying them open to polluters. It will take a concerted effort to restore ...
Wisconsons Water Is Laden With PFAS, Republicans Want to Give the Polluters Immunity
July 19, 2024
408
Erik Kanter, President of Clean Wisconsin joins to explain how republicans are withholding funds for clean up until the legislature passes a bill immunizing polluters from prosecution for polluting the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites.
Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support ...
Who Owns Our Water? Who Is Getting to Sell It? Gambling in Water Futures Is Real.
July 12, 2024
407
New legislation introduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Ro Khanna would put the kybosh on trading in water futures. Will it succeed? Mary Grant, Director of the Public Water for All initiative at Food and Water Watch joins to discuss this legislation, and other issues affecting our water supplies.
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Everything You Need to Know about Horseshoe Crabs!
June 27, 2024
406
Will Harlan from the Center for Biological Diversity joins to talk about the keystone species horseshoe crabs, a population that is crashing, and for which the Center is seeking endangered species protection. Learn why we need to protect this harmless and ancient creature from human exploitation.
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Pushing Back on the Poultry Industry Is Not for the Faint of Heart.
March 1, 2024
398
For at least 20 years, the burgeoning poultry industry has been spreading the waste litter from their barns across one particular watershed in Oklahoma. Journalist Ben Felder dug into the origins of the lawsuit brought by a long gone state attorney general seeking to bring some accountability to the industry over damage to the local ...
Farm Belt States Are Getting Serious About Agro-Chem and Cancer
February 23, 2024
397
Accross the farm belt, cancer cases are spiking, and states are getting serious about tracking and providing guidelines for exposure to agro-chem. Journalist Keith Schneider has been digging into this for months and reports.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a ...
How the American Diet is Feeding The Groundwater Crisis, redux!
February 2, 2024
396
Straight outta the NY Times, a groundbreaking article by journalists Christopher Flavelle and Somini Sengupta shows the highway between mcNuggets and our diminishing supply of fresh clean water for human consumption. Flavelle joins the show to describe what he and his colleague uncovered as part of an ongoing and important series in the ...
The EPA Finally Re-Considers Its Regulations on Effluent From Meat Processing.
January 26, 2024
395
John Rumpler, Clean Water DIrector and lead attorney for Environment America, joins to talk about the long overdue revision of regulations governing wastewater from slaughterhouses and meat processing plants. Decades overdue, public hearings on the subject are being held January 24th and 31st 2024. Learn more about how much toxic waste could ...
