Combating So-Called Clean Coal
December 23rd, 2008
Fighting coal power with commercials. A new effort seeks to bring some Reality to the idea of clean coal. Host Mike Tidwell speaks to Rob Perks, the director for advocacy programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council about both the Reality campaign and the Clean Coal Carolers – that’s right, singing lumps of coal harmonizing about the benefits of the dirtiest form of energy.
Francesca Grifo is the director of the Scientific Integrity Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists – a program that didn’t even have to exist before the Bush Administration. Grifo joins us to discuss the program’s “Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions’ for the upcoming Obama Administration.
Education and action are the goals of the National Teach-In on Global Warming. The Teach-In is directed by Eban Goodstein, who’s also an economics professor at the Lewis and Clark College in Oregon. And Earthbeat host Mike Tidwell discusses the benefits of a carbon cap and dividend plan.
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