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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Walter Hang, Letter to Obama, Holiday Reading

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Environmental activist extraordinaire, Walter Hang, tells us the inspiring story of how a highly organized grassroots movement led to Governor Cuomo prohibiting fracking in New York State. Ralph also tells us about the letter he sent to the President, and we discuss our Holiday reading.



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0:00.0

From the K-P-F-K studios in Southern California,

0:03.6

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.8

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.9

You've been sitting great to jump.

0:11.2

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan.

0:17.0

Today I'm coming to you from Princeton, New Jersey.

0:20.0

David is coming to you from Los Angeles, California. We like to switch coasts every once in a while.

0:24.7

And Ralph is from Connecticut. And David, our guest today comes to us from Ithka, New York,

0:30.5

where we have one of our first loyal affiliates,

0:33.0

W.R.I. 88.1 from Ithka and Watkins Glen.

0:37.1

That's right.

0:37.6

If you're listening to us in Ithaca,

0:39.2

you all know Walter Hang.

0:41.0

He's the president of Toxic's targeting an environmental database

0:45.4

firm in Ithaca that has compiled detailed information on more than 700,000 known

0:51.6

and potential toxic sites throughout New York State.

0:55.0

Toxic's targeting sophisticated maps and database reports are used by

1:00.0

engineers, environmental consultants, drinking water suppliers, and home

1:04.5

buyers to investigate toxic hazard concerns since 2009, toxic targeting has conducted an extensive public education grassroots activism

1:16.0

campaign to safeguard New York from Marcellus shale fracking pollution threats.

1:23.0

Ralph, welcome Walter Heng.

1:25.0

Walter's good to have you on.

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