Best of the Left Podcast : #1144 Denying and deconstructing with all their might (Environmental Regulations)

Tue, 7 November 2017

#1144 Denying and deconstructing with all their might (Environmental Regulations)

Air Date: 11/07/2017

Today we look at the systematic deconstruction of the environmental regulatory infrastructure at the hands of anti-environment radicals, otherwise known as the "Climate Denying Dream Team"

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: Trump’s ‘Dream Team’ of Climate Change Deniers Threatens the Planet - The Breach - Air Date 8-1-17

Ch. 3: Song 1: Long and Low Cloud - The Bulwark

Ch. 4: Act 2: War on the EPA - Frontline - Air Date 10-17-17

Ch. 5: Song 2: Passionate Ending - Soft and Furious

Ch. 6: Act 3: Trump Picks DAPL Lobbyist to Oversee EPA Water Safety in Same Week He Rolls Back Water Safeguards - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 06-29-17

Ch. 7: Song 3: Rotisserie Graveyard - Doctor Turtle

Ch. 8: Act 4: Science under attack from Trump administration - Got Science? - Air Date: 8-15-17

Ch. 9: Song 4: Turning to You - Landsman Duets

Ch. 10: Act 5: How Will We Be Remembered? Demand Climate Action in Your Community Nov. 18th via Climate Legacy Time Capsule Project - Best of the Left Activism

Ch. 11: Song 5: This Fickle World - Theo Bard

Ch. 12: Act 6: Trump's PC Police Purging The Term 'Climate Change' - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 08-08-17

Voicemails

Ch. 13: Banning guns wouldn't work - Zach from Atlanta, GA

Ch. 14: An unarmed proletariat will always be dominated - Anthony from Salt Lake City, UT

Ch. 15: Dems were unfair to Bernie who wasn't a Democrat - Erica from Massachusetts

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

Ch. 16: Final comments defending my personal friend, Martin O’Malley

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions and Free Music Archive)

Activism:

TAKE ACTION!

Demand Climate Action in Your Community on NOVEMBER 18th with the Climate Legacy Time Capsule Dedication demonstrations at State Houses and City Halls across the U.S.

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EDUCATE YOURSELF

Robert Redford: Scott Pruitt Is 'Hell-Bent' On Dismantling EPA Rules (Time)

Scott Pruitt Declares War on Air Pollution Science (The New Republic)

Here’s the Expertise Scott Pruitt Is Removing From the EPA’s Advisory Boards (Slate)

EPA chief set to meet privately with chemical industry execs (ABC News)

GAO to review whether EPA violated anti-propaganda law (The Hill)

Another Trump aide seems to be caught up in the Russia probe (Vox)

Written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman

Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

Thanks for listening!