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Environmental activists look forward to Obama’s second term

Environment

While they didn’t get everything they wanted in President Barack Obama’s first term, nor did they get all they asked for at the ballot box in November, environmental activists are bullish about how the second Obama term will play out, in regard to the environment.

Human rights in ‘Cancer Alley’

Environment

Effects of chemicals in flame retardants

Health & Medicine

Republicans not sold on cap and trade

Environment
The World

Obama withdraws from stricter smog standards

Global Politics

Visions of the EPA, Past, Present, Future

To mark the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Living on Earth’s Steve Curwood discusses the history and future of the Environmental Protection Agency with its first administrator, William Ruckelshaus, and its current leader, Lisa Jackson.

Lisa Jackson’s Plan

In an interview with Living on Earth, the new EPA administrator promises big changes for the embattled agency. One of her first initiatives is to test the air at schools near toxic hot spots. Next, she says she’ll decide what to do with the EPA’s authorit

The World

Jackson’s Job in Jersey

Obama’s nominee to lead the U.S. EPA, Lisa Jackson, draws praise and criticism from activists in her home state.

The World

Environment: ‘Cap and Trade’ and Climate Change

Global Politics

Lisa Jackson, the new Administrator of the EPA, joins The Takeaway to explain the Agency’s plans. Also joining the conversation is Congressman Fred Upton, a Republican Congressman from Michigan, with his opposition to the bill.

The World

EPA poised to make changes in greenhouse gas regulation

Global Politics

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