Environment/Climate

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Old Mole Variety Hour for February 1, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 02/01/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, featuring the following segments: Clean Energy and Beyond: Bill Resnick interviews newly elected Representative Khanh Pham (Oregon Assembly District 46). She’s been an activist leader of the Oregon Just Transition Alliance,... Read more

The Impending Demise of the World's Largest Methanol Refinery

Airs at: Mon, 02/01/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In a remarkable turn of events last week, the Washington State Department of Ecology denied a crucial permit for the world's largest methanol refinery, proposed for Kalama, Washington. People in Kalama have been fighting this methanol refinery for seven years, joined by act... Read more

How federal intervention could tackle the challenges to Columbia and Snake River salmon runs

Airs at: Thu, 01/21/2021 at 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Salmon runs on the Columbia and Snake rivers have faced major habitat loss, channelized streams and infrastructure invasion to their native spawning grounds over the past decades. While preservation efforts persist across Washington, Idaho and Oregon to save salmon runs,... Read more

What Must Be Done

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick speaks with Joel Bleifus, the editor of the journal “In These Times” on the challenges Biden faces: marginalizing the right and Trumpism, stopping the pandemic, reviving the economy, creating jobs for all, combating racism, and jumpstarting a reconstruction of ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 25, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: What Must Be Done: Bill Resnick speaks with Joel Bleifus, the editor of the journal “In These Times” on the challenges Biden faces: marginalizing the right and Trumpism, stopping t... Read more

Great News at Long Last!

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
We started out this new year hoping it would offer some respite after the ravages of 2020.  Instead we witnessed a terrorist attack at the Capitol and a second impeachment of Donald Trump. But the day before Trump slunk away to Florida and Joe Biden became the 46th presiden... Read more

POISONED WATER | Flint, Michigan

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2021 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Open Air
POISONED WATER:  How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned a Nation In 2014, the residents of Flint, Michigan noticed that their water was a copper hue and smelled and tasted like sulfur.  Some residents began using bottled water, but many of t... Read more

Inaugurate Justice

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Destiny Houston about the Inaugurate Justice Rally, March and Caravan that will be held on Wednesday, January 20th at Irving Park in Portland, 4-7 pm. Houston is an organizer with Kid-Centered March for Black Lives and is a member of the Defend Democra... Read more

Water Protectors and Line 3

Airs at: Mon, 01/11/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Winona LaDuke about the fight against Enbridge Energy's Line 3 in Minnesota, a pipeline project that would expand the flow of highly toxic tar sands oil through critical waterways and lands in this region. LaDuke is Executive Director of Honor the Eart... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 11, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 01/11/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes the following segments:   After the Coup: Bill Resnick speaks with Norm Solomon about the attempted coup by Trump and his supporters and what opportunities the Biden administration will have following the Geo... Read more