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Nuclear Power Plants Not Prepared for Climate Change
Nuclear Power Plants are not prepared for the effects of climate change. Beyond Nuclear's Paul Gunter discussed the dangers of flooding, earthquakes and climate change on America's nuclear power infrastructure.
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Hundreds Protest Williams Pipeline in New York
GUEST: Patrick Houston, Climate & Inequality Campaigns Associate at New York Communities for Change. BACKGROUND: Hundreds of protesters gathered near New York City Hall on Thursday to demand that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and…
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Environmental Activists are Fighting Trump's Executive Orders on Pipelines
As millions celebrate Earth Day, we speak with organizer Dallas Goldtooth about indigenous-led anti-pipeline activism. President Trump signed two executive orders earlier this month to facilitate the approval of pipeline projects at a federal level,…
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Hold Banks Accountable for Financing Climate Chaos & Violating Indigenous Rights
As millions celebrate Earth Day around the globe, we speak with organizer Dallas Goldtooth about indigenous-led anti-pipeline activism in the United States. President Trump signed two executive orders earlier this month to facilitate the approval…
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Who Is Behind Recent Massacres in Brazil’s Amazon?
The American Museum of Natural History announced this week that it would no longer host a gala honoring Brazil's ultra right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. The museum had come under fire for allowing another organization to…
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Environmental Lawyer Super-Glued Herself to an Oil Company’s Headquarters
"I believe in the rule of law," says environmental lawyer Farhana Yamin, who helped write the 2016 Paris Agreement. "But right now, I feel the most important thing that people can do is come join…
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Extinction Rebellion Launches International Week of Action on Climate
On Monday, April 15, a week of events taking place in major cities around the world aims to draw attention to the existential climate crisis that we face. Extinction Rebellion, born in the UK last…
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How the Climate Crisis Catalyzes Mass Migration
Obstacles posed by the climate crisis are fueling dire economic and agricultural conditions in Central American countries, incentivizing a new wave of climate refugees to migrate to the United States. "Those are the opening salvos…
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Climate Change Isn't a Future Crisis, It's a Crisis Now
Michael Mann, Professor at Penn State University and author of “Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change” and “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars,” joins David to discuss predicting the effects of climate change.
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Green New Deal Is a Chance to “Remake Not Just a Broken Planet, But a Broken Society”
President Trump signed two executive orders last week to facilitate the approval of pipeline projects at a federal level, limiting states’ ability to regulate such projects. The move is intended in part to clear the…
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The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution, and How We Can Fight Back
Climate change denialists like to question scientific research, perhaps assuming that the general public won't connect the dots between increased carbon dioxide levels and a warming planet. But on the science of air pollution, there…
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Betsy Devos' Charter School Scam Already Wasted a Billion Dollars
Betsy Devos has been praising charter schools and cutting funding for public schools to the chagrin of activists, teachers, students, parents, and education experts. It turns out that charter schools have already wasted over a…
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Co2 Levels Hit Three Million-Year High
Carbon Dioxide levels (sometimes written Co2 ) have reached a three million-year high and scientists are starting to worry. Thom explores what these historic high levels mean for the planet (and our future on it)…
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Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident: 40 Years On
40 years on, what is the lesson to learn from the Three Mile Island nuclear accident? Paul Gunther from Project-Beyond Nuclear joins The Thom Hartmann Program to discuss the bigger picture on nuclear power, the…
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“Remember the South”: Devastating Cyclone Idai Another Example of Global South Paying for Polluters
Cyclone Idai, the worst weather disaster in the history of the Southern Hemisphere, has caused extensive flooding and left tens of thousand homeless and more than 400 dead in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. Officials say…
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“Water Is Life”: Midwestern Floods Threaten Indigenous Communities at Forefront of Climate Crisis
As Nebraska and the U.S. Midwest recover from devastating climate change-fueled floods, we speak with Lakota historian Nick Estes on how two centuries of indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life.” Estes’s new…
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How Standing Rock resistance inspired the Green New Deal
Lakota historian Nick Estes says new efforts to fight climate change are inextricably linked to indigenous-led movements like the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock. “In many ways, the United States, along with countries…
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What's Wrong with the Green New Deal?
A conservative at odds with Donald Trump is having trouble with the Green New Deal as proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Central to the question is whether or not the Green New Deal is doable,…
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