Political Green Washing - The Supreme Court and Whistle Blowing & Bio Blitz!
This week co-host Daphne Wysham starts tracking politicians who start going green right before election day. Joining her in the studio is Chuck Porcari, the spokesman of The League of Conservation Voters in Washington, DC, and on the telephone from California - Carmen Balber, a consumer advocate with the watchdog group, The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and the website 'Arnold Watch.'
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The U.S. Supreme Court recently restricted the First Amendment rights of government whistle blowers. Debating the issue is Tom Devine, the legal director for The Government Accountability Project, and David Rivkin, a former Justice Department official in the Reagan and Bush senior administrations. He's currently a partner with the law firm, Baker and Hostetler LLP.
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Bio Blitz is when a swarm of scientists take over an area and do an intense survey of everything in their path. Joining Daphne in the studio are Stephanie Flack of The Nature Conservancy and Sam Droege of the US Geologic Survey and on the phone is Art Evans, a specialist in 'recent invertebrates' at the Smithsonian.
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