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Department of Environmental Quality Holds Public Hearings On Coal Terminal

Airs at: Wed, 12/05/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 This December the Department of Environmental Quality will hold three hearings in Oregon where the public may comment on Ambre Energy’s proposed Morrow Pacific Coal Export Project. Under the proposed system, coal would be strip-mined from Montana and Wyoming, an... Read more

Spokane Residents Protest Coal Export Terminal

Airs at: Wed, 12/05/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 Close to a thousand activists opposing coal exports turned out at a public hearing in Spokane yesterday to voice concerns to the Army Corps of Engineers. Another public hearing in Boardman Oregon last night brought in over two hundred coal opponents. They c... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour November 26, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about Wal-Mart and the workers organizing against it on Black Friday.  Joe Clement introduces Utah Phillips talking & singing about blaming & dumping the bosses.  The movie moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss... Read more

World Bank Warns Globe Could be Cooked by 2060: Where’s the News?

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from Dave Lindorff's analysis of the World Bank's recent report on the likelihood of catastrophic global warming, and of the failures of the mainstream press to report on it except in the business section Read more

Idaho group appeals Forest Service decision to allow exploratory drilling for gold

Airs at: Tue, 11/20/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
  Normal 0 On Friday, the Idaho Conservation League appealed a Forest Service decision approving exploratory drilling by the Vancouver, B-C-based Midas Gold Corporation in central western Idaho. KBOO’s Paul Roland has more.     Read more

Terry Tempest Williams on her book "When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice"

Airs at: Wed, 11/07/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Unedited and uninterrupted version of host Kathleen Stephenson speaking with Terry Tempest Williams, naturalist, author and fierce advocate for freedom of speech. Terry Tempest Williams shows us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters o... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour November 5th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 11/05/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement hosts this pre-election day Old Mole. We hear:   Bill resnick talk with Kathleen Tierney about social inequalities and natural disaster. Alan Wieder Reviews "Howard Zinn: a life on the left" Bill, Alan and Frann Michel have a roundtable on electo... Read more

Social Inequality and Natural Disasters

Airs at: Mon, 11/05/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Kathleen Tierney of the University of Colorado at Boulder's Natural Hazard's Center. They discuss how inequalities become apparent under conditions of natural disaster. The interview is cut short and Bill wraps up the last couple minutes. Read more

Movie Moles review Maquilapolis

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss the documentary Maquilapolis (2006), its collaborative production and innovative style, and its presentation of the struggles and modest triumphs of Tijuana factory workers and community environmental activists in the years since NAFTA. Read more

The effects of fluoridating chemicals on the environment and especially on salmon.

Airs at: Tue, 10/09/2012 at 12:00am
Normal 0 On September 12th Portland city council voted 5-0 to add fluoridating chemicals to our Bull Run water.  This is a highly contentious issue that Portland citizens have already rejected three times at the polls and a recent survey shows ¾ of Portlanders opposed to... Read more