#1205 The multi-front war on the environment and our health
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🗓️ 28 August 2018
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Air Date: 8/28/2018
Today we take a look at just some of the many ways the Trump administration is systematically attacking the environment and our health to pave the way for increased profits for the business interests who have the administration's ear
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The Trump administration has announced plans to gut the Endangered Species Act, ordering federal agencies to consider economic impacts before listing animals to be protected under the law.
Ch. 2: Record heats and record fires - @GreenNewsReport - Air Date 8-14-18
The Trump administration is using extreme fires and an excuse to unnecessarily weaken endangered species protections.
Ch. 3: Trump EPA Allowing ASBESTOS Back into Manufacturing - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 8-11-18
The Trump EPA is building a framework to allow new uses of the toxic carcinogen asbestos.
Ch. 4: Rewriting the rules to harm more Americans - @GreenNewsReport - Air Date 6-12-18
The Trump EPA wants to undo pollution standards by systematically downplaying health benefits to people of avoiding pollution.
Ch. 5: Sec. Ryan Zinke's Monumental Screw-Up - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 8-3-18
Aaron Weiss of the Center for Western Priorities explains the "monumental screw up" when the U.S. Department of Interior accidentally released un-redacted documents exposing how agency officials rejected data on the benefits of public lands.
Ch. 6: How Trump's rules on coal-fired power plants differ from Obama's - PBS NewsHour - Air Date 8-21-18
The Trump administration unveiled its plan to reverse President Obama's coal pollution rules. The new EPA proposal, called the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, would give states leeway on whether to limit emissions and allow older power plants to operate.
Trump administration plans to roll back Obama's clean energy plan and vehicle mileage and emissions standards while acknowledging that both moves will cause more deaths.
Ch. 8: Rise for Climate - A Global Day of Action on September 8th via @350 - Best of the Left Activism
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Writer Victor Wallis presents a socialist framework for ecological revolution. Victor is author of "Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism" from Political Animal Press.
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| 0:20.6 | Now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning best of left podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:24.7 | about just some of the many ways the Trump administration is systematically attacking |
| 0:29.4 | the environment to pave the way for increased profits for the business interests who have |
| 0:34.2 | the administration to ear. |
| 0:35.7 | Clips today come from Democracy Now, the Green News Report, the David Pakman show, the |
| 0:40.8 | Bradcast, the PBS NewsHour, and this is hell. |
| 0:50.3 | The Trump administration has announced plans to gut the Endangered Species Act, ordering |
| 0:55.4 | federal agencies to consider economic impacts before listing animals to be protected under |
| 1:00.9 | the law. |
| 1:02.2 | The newly proposed guidelines by the Interior Department would allow corporations involved |
| 1:07.3 | in mining, drilling, or other forms of extraction to proceed with projects that would otherwise |
| 1:12.4 | be prohibited. |
| 1:14.2 | Republican President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act in 1973 to provide |
| 1:19.9 | a framework to conserve and protect endangered and threatened species and their habitats. |
| 1:26.0 | The Trump administration's proposed rules are among several recent efforts to weaken the |
| 1:32.0 | Endangered Species Act. |
| 1:33.6 | Earlier this month, the Congressional Western Caucus introduced a package of nine bills to |
| 1:38.9 | quote modernize the ESA in introducing the legislation. |
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