Climate change. The podcast will feature climate action, highlighting some of the key climate struggles. It is produced by the Green Education and Legal Fund. Putting Out the Planetary Fire is the organizing handbook from GELF that provides background information on climate issues along with a how-to-guide on climate advocacy.
A new NYPIRG–Environment America report found that 42% of New York State public schools had at least one drinking or cooking water outlet testing above the state’s 5 parts per billion (ppb) lead limit, representing over 12,000 outlets statewide . Blair Horner discusses the report with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.
15 Oct 2026
Elizabeth Kolbert Book Talk Sat Sept. 26 UAlbany
Elizabeth Kolbert will speak on Sat. Sept. 26 at 3:45 PM at UAlbany as part of the 9th Annual Albany Book Festival with the NYS Writers Institute. Kolbert is one of America’s best-known journalists covering the climate crisis and the natural world. Her new book is Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World (2025), a landmark collection of her most important pieces, and a New Yorker “Best Book of the Year.” Kolbert’s previous books include Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (2006), The Sixth Extinction (2014), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (2021). Her talk will be moderated by Judith Enck. Betsy talks with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine. www.albanybookfestival.com
15 Oct 2026
Comments Made to PSC on Hochul’s Nuclear Plans
September 25 was the close of the public comment period to the State Public Commission (PSC) on the state’s Advanced Nuclear Policy Options Paper, which lays out potential approaches to Governor Hochul’s desire to add five new nuclear power plants. Three dozen lawmakers submitted a letter urging the PSC to reject any public subsidies for the nuclear power expansion. Fred Harrison, a long time utility rate advocate who has worked with groups like Food and Water Watch and the Alliance for a Nuclear Free New York, talks with Mark Dunlea about concerns by environmentalists about the Governor’s proposals.
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