Environment/Climate

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Climate Change, Conflict, and Refugees

Airs at: Mon, 11/12/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Thom Becker reads from an article entitled “Climate Change Is Increasing Regional Conflict and Creating Millions of Refugees Across the Globe” By Steve Trent  for the online news page, AlterNet. Photo: Syrian refugee camp in Suruc, Turkey (September 7, 2017) Photo Credit: ... Read more

Towards Radical Reconstruction

Airs at: Mon, 11/12/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Diane Feeley, coordinator of National Organization for Women, who has devoted her life to working in the labor movement and many of the social movements for democratic socialist revolution.  They discuss how to work in movements -- like Medicare for ... Read more

Homeowners against the SW Capital Highway Expansion Project

Airs at: Wed, 11/14/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  The RadioActivist
Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) is planning to create sidewalks and bike lanes along both sides of SW Capitol Highway, with construction slated to start in spring of 2019. This would mean eliminating 306 trees and creating 12 foot retaining walls. Andrea Firpo, hom... Read more

Portland Business Alliance vs. the Environment

Airs at: Mon, 11/12/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Recently the Portland Business Alliance endorsed the massive Jordan Cove LNG export terminal proposed for Coos Bay. But this is not the first time this influential business organization, which claims a membership of 1,900, has advocated for positions that put our communitie... Read more

Portland Pursues Alternative to Compliance with EPA Lead Levels

Produced for:  Evening News
In Nineteen Ninety One (1991) the United States Environmental Protection Agency published the lead and copper rule, to minimize nurotoxins in water. The rule established a maximum contaminant level goal of zero for lead in drinking water. The Portland Water Bureau has neve... Read more

KBOO Election Night Coverage 2018

Airs at: Tue, 11/06/2018 at 4:00pm - 10:00pm
KBOO will be providing live election night coverage Tuesday November 6th from 6 - 10 pm. Tune in for live analysis and reports of local and national election results. 4 - 6 PM Amy Goodman's Democracy Now and The Intercept  6-7 PM   Pacifica National Coverage   7- 8 PM... Read more

Evening News on 10/30/18

Airs at: Tue, 10/30/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Domicile Unknown Report In 2010, the Multnomah County Medical Examiner’s Office added the designation ‘domicile unknown’ to its database of deaths in the county, to indicate that a person may not have had housing at the time they died. Today, the county Health Department, ... Read more

Kids and Teens Sue the Government Over Climate Change

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Franklin High School senior and activist Annika Mayne about Juliana vs. United States, a law suit that was supposed to begin in a US District Court on October 29th. In it, the plantiffs (young people from Oregon) charged the federal government with abd... Read more

Youth Climate Case Rally

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Today, the Oregon federal district court in Eugene was scheduled to begin trying the case “Juliana versus the United States”, which seeks a declaration that the federal government violated the plaintiff’s constitutional rights, by causing dangerous carbon dioxide concentrat... Read more

Portland Clean Energy Initiative

Airs at: Mon, 11/05/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Portland Clean Energy Initiative (Measure 26-201) is an innovative Portland ballot measure that will create $30 million in funding for local clean energy projects, including but not limited to rooftop solar, energy efficiency housing upgrades, and community gardens. The... Read more