BONUS: In Celebration of Earth Day, We Get a State of the Union from the National Wildlife Federation
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Earth Day is April 22nd. We've seen Donald Trump, Scott Pruitt and others undermine the work of environmentalists at a rate we've never seen before. Collin O'Mara from the National Wildlife Federation joins us in studio to discuss where we are, where we're going and how can we stop the damage being done.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Bill Press show. |
| 0:16.8 | Hey, what do you say, friends? |
| 0:17.7 | Thanks so much for joining us here. |
| 0:19.3 | A very little extra special from the Bill Press show on the environment and what some of the challenges are and what we are doing about it. Nobody better to talk to about that than Colin O'Mara. Our good friend, who is the CEO of the National Wildlife Federation. |
| 0:39.7 | Hi, Colin. |
| 0:40.3 | Great to see you. |
| 0:41.0 | Bill, thanks for having me back. |
| 0:41.9 | We are approaching Earth Day on April 22nd. |
| 0:47.4 | This is, what, 30 some years now? |
| 0:51.9 | Almost 40. |
| 0:53.0 | Almost 40, right. |
| 0:54.3 | So 38 years, I guess 39 years? |
| 0:56.1 | I remember the very first one. |
| 0:58.4 | I was working for a man by name of Peter Bear. |
| 1:02.5 | It was running for the state senate in California. |
| 1:04.8 | And he spoke one of the very first Earth Day gatherings. |
| 1:09.5 | I was there with him. What's, what's a message for Earth Day |
| 1:13.6 | to Day. How are we doing? I think it's a, it's a tale of two Americas, right? I mean, you have |
| 1:18.1 | mayors and governors that are doing amazing things, and we've frankly never seen a more destructive |
| 1:22.3 | EPA than we're seeing right now. And obviously, a Department of Interior that's been much |
| 1:27.1 | more focus on energy dominance than on conservation. And so a Department of Interior that's been much more focused on energy |
| 1:27.9 | dominance than on conservation. And so I think the scorecard is very uneven. But, you know, right |
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