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1. Environment Show #345

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1996 August 10
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
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Description:
1.) Host Peter Berle talks with Carol Browner of the Environmental Protection Agency about the Safe Drinking Water Act. 2.) Susan Drennen of the Audubon Society remembers bird watching pioneer Roger Tory Peterson. 3.) Thomas Lalley reports on the controversy surrounding nuclear waste disposal and talks with Eileen Supko of Energy Resources International. 4.) In the segment Earth Calendar, Berle talks with Ron Nevine of the Oceanites Foundation about emperor penguins.
Subject:
Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996, Drinking water--Law and legislation--United States, Nuclear waste disposal, and Emperor penguin--Antarctica

2. Environment Show #303

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1995 October 22
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
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Description:
1.) Host Peter Berle discusses the controversy over a proposal to dump nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. 2.) In the segment Locking Horns, Scott Peters of the Nuclear Institute and Scott Denham of the Safe Energy Coalition discuss if the disposal of nuclear waste is environmentally and economically feasible. 3.) In the segment Ear to the Ground, Linda Anderson reports on a group of 6th grade students who helping to keep the air clean by buying pollution credits. 4.) Thomas Lalley reports on the chemical pollution of Silva Reservoir in Mexico. 5.) Rosemary Katana of the Inuit's presents a portrait of Banks Island in Canada.
Subject:
Chemical pollution, Nuclear waste disposal, Air pollution, and Yucca Mountain (Nev.)

3. Environment Show #118

Type:
Audio
Date Created:
1992 April 5
Collection:
WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
Collecting Area:
New York State Modern Political Archive
Collection ID:
apap138
Parent Record(s):
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Description:
1.) Host Bruce Robertson talks with Jody Jacobson of the World Watch Institute about population growth and how the low status of women in some countries could be a contributing factor. 2.) Bob Rija reports on the controversy surrounding the proposed building of monitored retrieval sites that would temporarily store nuclear waste. 3.) Professor of chemical engineering V.K. Mathur discusses his newly developed invention that would help in the fight against acid rain by zapping out the nitrogen oxide chemicals. 4.) Robertson checks in with Keith Tondrick on his Appalachian Trail hike, he and his group are now in Tennessee.
Subject:
Population growth, Nuclear waste disposal, Acid rain, and Appalachian Trail