Episode Details

Host Joe DeMare talks about riding the rails and the eco advantages of train travel, and Trump's pardoning of polluters. Next he interviews Diane D'Arrigo of NIRS about the Department of Energy's decision to throw out the As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) radiation exposure for humans. Essentially telling corporations that now it's ok to irradiate people. Rebecca Wood talks about the river running through Atlanta. Ecological News includes: the EPA deciding human life or health don't matter anymore in regulatory decisions; Coal use finally dropping in India and China thanks to wind and solar; and a new 3,000 acre nature preserve in Athens County.