Parts Per Billion
188 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsParts Per Billion is Bloomberg Law's environmental policy podcast. We cover everything from air pollution, to toxic chemicals, to corporate sustainability, and climate change. The reporters from our environment desk offer an inside look at what's happening at Congress, in the courts, and at the federal agencies, and help explain the scientific and policy debates shaping environmental laws and regulations. Host: David Schultz
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Biden May Give Wall Street More Climate Data, and Fast
February 10, 2021 18:58 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBPresident Biden's nominee to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission hasn't even been confirmed by the Senate yet. But Bloomberg Law's Andrew Ramonas says the agency may not wait for a permanent leader to begin pushing companies to disclose more climate change information to their investors. On this episode of our weekly environmental podcast, Parts Per Billion, we hear from Andrew about climate disclosure actions the SEC can take in the coming days and weeks. And Andrew also talks abou...
Climate Suits Pushing Tort Law Into Uncharted Waters
February 03, 2021 18:06 - 16 minutes - 15 MBA group of big cities are seeking damages from the fossil fuel industry over the costs of climate change. These suits against some of the biggest names in the energy world are taking a very old legal idea—the tort—and trying to adapt it to a new environmental problem. On this week's episode of our environmental podcast, Parts Per Billion, we hear from two lawyers involved in this litigation, one representing the plaintiffs and the other with the defendants. Plaintiffs' attorney Katie Jones...
Election Plot Puts Environment Official in Spotlight
January 27, 2021 19:15 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MBA little-known environmental official from the Trump administration made big headlines when it was reported he worked with the President in a failed attempt to oust the acting Attorney General earlier this month in order to bolster baseless claims of election fraud. The official, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, denied taking any actions against then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen. But Bloomberg Law's Ellen Gilmer says these reports have seriously damaged Clark's career moving forward. For ...
After Flint, Uptick in Environmental Indictments Unlikely
January 20, 2021 19:26 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBThe former governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder (R), was hit with criminal charges last week over his role in the drinking water contamination crisis in the town of Flint. He is fighting the case and his attorneys say the charges are "wholly without merit." Will this usher in a new era where elected officials could be thrown in prison if an environmental catastrophe occurs on their watch? Not likely, says Bob Percival, a law professor at the University of Maryland who leads the school's enviro...
Supreme Court Fills Up Docket With Environmental Cases
January 13, 2021 19:50 - 14 minutes - 13 MBThe Supreme Court has not been shy about wading into some pretty thorny environmental disputes. Including the two cases it took up last week, the justices now have six environmental cases outstanding on their docket. On this episode of our weekly podcast, Parts Per Billion, we hear from Bloomberg Law's Ellen M. Gilmer, who summarized all of these cases and broke down their individual story lines. She also talks about arguments in a climate change case that the Supreme Court will hear one da...
Carbon Capture Gets Federal Money, But Is It Needed?
January 06, 2021 20:20 - 10 minutes - 9.88 MBTucked away in the stimulus bill that the President just signed was nearly half a billion dollars for research into carbon capture technology. On this episode of our weekly environmental podcast, Parts Per Billion, we hear from Bloomberg Law's Bobby Magill about why this money was added into to the bill, where it will go, and why it probably won't make a significant dent in our climate change problem. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio....
Save the Everglades, Eat Python for Christmas Dinner
December 23, 2020 20:17 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBInvasive Burmese pythons are becoming a real problem in Florida’s everglades, where they have no natural predators and are causing plummeting populations of native species like foxes and rabbits. State wildlife officials have encouraged the hunting of these massive snakes, but the problem still persists. Now, according to Bloomberg Law correspondent Jennifer Kay, officials are trying a different tack: convincing Sunshine Staters to start eating python meat. On the latest episode of our wee...
Biden Environmental Plan Rests on the Backs of Lawyers
December 16, 2020 20:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBThe Biden administration is staffing up quickly and it seems like there's a new headline almost every day about the President-elect's choice for one cabinet position or another. But less attention is being paid to the lower-level attorneys, even though the new administration's entire environmental agenda largely depends on them. On this episode of our weekly environmental podcast, Parts Per Billion, we talk to Bloomberg Law's Ellen M. Gilmer about how these regulatory attorneys will be tryi...
Electric Vehicles Good for Climate, Bad for Taxation
December 09, 2020 20:40 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBTeslas and other electric vehicles may be helping to solve the problem of climate change, but they're also creating a new problem for state and federal transportation budgets. That's because these budgets are funded largely from revenue generated by taxes on gasoline. But if gas-fueled cars are being phased out, where will funding come from build new roads or even just to maintain existing ones? We posed this question to Sahas Katta, the CEO of an automobile tech startup who is working with...
Firefighting Gear Opens a New Front in PFAS Legal War
December 02, 2020 20:01 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBMuch of the litigation over toxic PFAS chemicals, at least thus far, has focused on the spraying of PFAS-laden firefighting foam. But now, a new avenue of lawsuits has opened up over the use of PFAS-coated firefighting gear. Bloomberg Law reporters Andrew Wallender and Fatima Hussein join our weekly environmental podcast, Parts Per Billion, to talk about suits over these jackets, gloves, and other protective equipment. And they also explain why some of the firefighters filing the suits are ...
Introducing: Black Lawyers Speak
November 27, 2020 18:34 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MBDespite decades of work to educate more Black lawyers, the percentage of Black associates and partners in firms across the U.S. remain very low, and well below those of other professional careers. Big Law firms across the board are ramping up social justice efforts as the nation engages in a renewed dialogue on race and equality. But some have accused firms of using minorities as “diversity props” to impress clients and misrepresent their inclusiveness to potential employees. So what are law...
Biden Environment Goals Collide With Divided Congress
November 25, 2020 19:31 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBPresident-elect Joe Biden will begin his first term in a much weaker position than former President Barack Obama faced when beginning his first term. Regardless of the outcome of January's Senate runoff elections in Georgia, Biden will not enjoy the large majorities in Congress that Obama did. On today's episode of Parts Per Billion, we hear from Bloomberg Law reporter Dean Scott about how this situation will be the primary factor shaping Biden's environmental agenda. Learn more about you...
Arctic Drilling Push Comes Down to Trump's Final Days
November 18, 2020 18:39 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBThe Trump administration may need every single minute of its four-year term to accomplish its goal of opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling. On today's episode of Parts Per Billion, we hear from Bloomberg News reporter Jennifer A. Dlouhy about how the administration is in a race against the clock to auction off leases in this environmentally sensitive area of northeastern Alaska. Jennifer says there's so little time that it's possible the auctions may take place on...
The Morning After and Federal Agencies Hang in Balance
November 04, 2020 17:12 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBIt's the morning after the elections and we don't know who the next President of the United States will be. But, despite that, we do have some idea of how things might change for the federal agencies that regulate the environment. On this special episode of our weekly environmental podcast, Parts Per Billion, we speak with three Bloomberg Law reporters about exactly how environmental policy could shift and about who would be on the shortlist to lead the EPA and the Interior Department. Le...
Post-Soviet Treaty Complicates EU's Climate Ambitions
October 28, 2020 18:16 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBThe European Union is on a continent-wide push to reduce its carbon emissions. But some environmentalists say this goal is threatened by a nearly 30-year-old treaty enacted in response to the fall of the Soviet Union. On this episode of our weekly podcast, Parts Per Billion, we hear from Stephen Gardner, Bloomberg Law's Brussels correspondent. He explains how a treaty meant to spur energy investment in post-Soviet republics has turned into a powerful tool of Europe's fossil fuel industry. ...
States Are Taking Action, Slowly, on Nonstick Chemicals
October 21, 2020 17:45 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBSeveral states—including the biggest, California—have moved to partially or fully ban the use of nonstick chemicals known as PFAS in firefighting foam. But many of these bans won't take effect for years or, in some cases, many years. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, we talk with Bloomberg Law California correspondent Emily C. Dooley about the Golden State's own recently enacted PFAS ban and its long, winding journey through the state's legislature. Learn more about your ad-choices at...
Trump's Wetland Dispute Slogs On at Bedminster Course
October 14, 2020 18:37 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBPresident Donald Trump has been in a nearly decade-long dispute with New Jersey environmental officials over some relatively minor wetlands violations at his signature golf course there. Though these violations were minor, they bring up some interesting questions about what happens when a President in charge of making environmental policy decisions is also personally affected by those decisions. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, we talk to Bloomberg Law's Stephen Lee about what's going ...
Oil Wildcatters a Wild Bunch in Oil-Poor Nevada
October 07, 2020 18:37 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MBThe federal government is granting leases that allow oil drilling on huge amounts of federal land in the state of Nevada. This is despite a fossil fuel market with highly depressed prices—and despite scant evidence that any oil actually exists below the Silver State. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, we talk with Bloomberg Law's Bobby Magill about the colorful bunch of so-called "wildcatters" who are not only willing but eager to search for oil in Nevada's vast public lands. Learn mor...
Do EPA Chemicals Protections Protect 'Cancer Alley?'
September 30, 2020 19:40 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBThere's a section of the Gulf Coast in the South that has significantly higher rates of cancer than other parts of the country. This section, nicknamed "Cancer Alley," is also home to dozens of chemical factories and petroleum refineries. Today on Parts Per Billion, we talk with Bloomberg Law's Pat Rizzuto about how the EPA calculates the risk of toxic chemical exposure in areas like Cancer Alley and about how some activists are using the agency's own data to prod it to change. Learn more...
How Ginsburg, and Her Absence, Affect the Environment
September 23, 2020 18:20 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBThough she may be better known for her work on gender equality, late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a substantial impact on environmental law. On today's episode of Parts Per Billion we hear from Bloomberg Law's Ellen M. Gilmer about some of Ginsburg's most notable environmental opinions and about how these types of cases may fare at the high court after her death. For more on this topic, check out a column written earlier this week by Harvard Law School professor Richard La...
Air Quality Gadgets Fly Off Shelves in Smoky, Hazy West
September 16, 2020 18:14 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBOne sign of how bad the wildfires have gotten along the West Coast is that the newest must-have tech gadget there is a personal air quality sensor. These devices send data on air quality to any smartphone or computer and, with wildfire smoke blanketing cities up and down the coast, manufacturers say demand is off the charts. On this episode of Parts Per Billion we speak with Laura Bliss, a reporter with Bloomberg's CityLab. She reported on the rapid adoption of these devices in communities...
EPA Racial Justice Plan Has Interestingly Timed Debut
September 09, 2020 18:40 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBEPA chief Andrew Wheeler rolled out a new plan recently that addresses issues of environmental justice, when pollution disproportionately affects low-income communities and people of color. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, Bloomberg Law's Stephen Lee joins us to explain what's in this plan and why the timing of its rollout, just a couple months before Election Day, may not be a coincidence. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/li...
Markey Win Shows Green New Deal Far From Irrelevant
September 02, 2020 18:49 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBProspects for the Green New Deal legislative package were looking dim after it was introduced in Congress early last year. But since then it's had some surprising ripple effects. For example, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) used his early support of the Green New Deal to fend off an intra-party challenge from Rep. Joe Kennedy III. Markey beat Kennedy by more than 10 percentage points in their state's Sept. 1 primary. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, environment reporter Dean Scott explains h...
California Fighting Massive Wildfires With Blackouts
August 26, 2020 18:20 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBCalifornia's power companies are trying to stop wildfires by imposing targeted blackouts in high risk areas. Their hope is that this will prevent a downed live wire from sparking a conflagration. This strategy was effective a tamping down fires last year, but in the year of Covid-19, many worry the solution will be nearly as bad as the problem. On this episode of our podcast, Parts Per Billion, California correspondent Emily C. Dooley talks about how power companies are struggling to ensur...
Arctic Drilling a Bittersweet Prize for Oil Industry
August 19, 2020 18:59 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBDrilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a decades-long dream of the energy industry, is closer to reality than ever before after the Trump Administration announced it will start auctioning off drilling rights as early as this year. But these drilling rights could easily be slow-rolled—or even outright canceled—if Democratic nominee Joe Biden becomes President next year, according to Jennifer A. Dlouhy, an environmental reporter with Bloomberg News. And beyond that, the oil ...
Investigating the Killing of an Environmental Activist (Podcast)
August 12, 2020 18:42 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBParts Per Billion is on a short vacation this week. But while we’re gone, we wanted to share with you the first episode of a new podcast from our colleagues at Bloomberg News. The podcast is called Blood River and it’s about the search to find the killers of Honduran environmental activist Berta Caceres, who was assassinated in her home country in 2016. Blood River follows a four-year quest to find her killers – a twisting trail that leads deep into the country’s circles of power. You can ...
Biden Win Would Be Game Changer for Climate Lawsuits
July 29, 2020 18:30 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBWe don't know what environmental policy will look like under a potential Biden administration, but we do know that the Democratic presidential candidate has signaled he wants to get much more involved in a series of high profile climate change lawsuits. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, Bloomberg Law's Ellen M. Gilmer looks at what it would mean if a Biden Justice Department starts assisting cities and states in their legal fight against fossil fuel giants. Learn more about your ad-ch...
Introducing: Blood River
July 27, 2020 08:00 - 2 minutes - 2.12 MBThe killers of Berta Caceres had every reason to believe they’d get away with murder. More than 100 other environmental activists in Honduras had been killed in the previous five years, yet almost no one had been punished for the crimes. Bloomberg’s Blood River follows a four-year quest to find her killers – a twisting trail that leads into the country’s circles of power. Blood River is out now. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/li...
Polluted Town Says EPA Declaring Premature Victory
July 22, 2020 18:56 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBMuch of the town of East Chicago, Ind., is a federal Superfund site, having endured decades of pollution from a now-shuttered lead smelter. Recently, the EPA said cleanup work there has been successful and is moving to take a large swath of East Chicago off of its Superfund list, a compilation of country's most polluted sites. However, some residents of the town, which is predominately Black and Hispanic, say they weren't consulted on this decision and don't think their community is safe ye...
EPA Funding May Get Snarled in Campaign Brinkmanship
July 15, 2020 19:23 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBFunding for the EPA, the Interior Department, and all other federal agencies expires on Oct. 1, the end of the government's fiscal year. But House Democrats may have a strong incentive to try to push this deadline past November's elections into the lame duck session of Congress. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, Capitol Hill reporter Kellie Lunney talks about how lawmakers are crafting spending bills for environmental agencies and also explains the complicated game theory at play in thi...
Big Pipeline Projects Get Rapid Fire Bad News
July 08, 2020 19:57 - 16 minutes - 15.6 MBJust within the past few days, two big energy pipeline projects suffered major legal defeats and another one was abandoned by the company pushing it. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, Bloomberg Law's Ellen M. Gilmer updates us on this fast-moving news and explains why the litigation strategy of environmentalists who oppose these projects is now paying off big time. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...
Water Shortage Hits Tribes, But Is Mining to Blame?
July 01, 2020 21:12 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBWith the coronavirus spreading rapidly, several American Indian reservations in the Southwest are experiencing extreme water shortages, a problem worsened by poor water infrastructure. Though no one denies the acuteness of the problem, what is in dispute is who's to blame. Activists and environmentalists in these communities say decades of water-intensive coal mining has caused a dramatic drop in their aquifer. But the company that ran these now-shuttered coal mines disagrees. On this epis...
Bird Killing Plan Uses 'Sully' Plane Crash as Rationale
June 24, 2020 20:32 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBThe Trump Administration is putting forth a proposal that would eliminate, in some cases, the penalties for killing protected bird species. And, according to Bloomberg Law reporter Bobby Magill, it got pretty creative in justifying why it believes this move is necessary. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, Magill explains how the administration cited 2009's "Miracle on the Hudson" plane crash as a reason why allowing more birds to be killed might be a good thing. Learn more about your a...
Even Pandemic Can't Stop Shift to Renewable Energy
June 17, 2020 18:23 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBYou would think that record low fossil fuel prices would spell certain doom for the future of solar, wind, and other forms of renewable energy. But you'd be wrong. At least, that's according to Albert Cheung, the head of global analysis at the research group Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Cheung joins Parts Per Billion to talk about why the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic likely won't stop renewable energy from slowly but steadily replacing other forms of energy in the coming...
For PFAS Plaintiffs, Delays Starting to Add Up
June 10, 2020 19:13 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBThe litigation over the toxic nonstick substances known as PFAS—or also known by their nickname "forever chemicals"—was already going to be pretty complicated. But now the pandemic has dialed that complexity up to a whole new level. On this week's episode of Parts Per Billion, reporter Ellen M. Gilmer talks about the delays these high stakes lawsuits have suffered in recent months and about whether one side in these types of disputes benefits more than the other when court deadlines get pos...
California Climate Rules Not Made for Pandemic Times
June 03, 2020 19:17 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBCalifornia has some of the most aggressive climate change regulations of any state in the country. But, with greenhouse gas emissions plummeting due to the economic shutdown, those regulations may actually be backfiring. On this week's episode of Parts Per Billion, Bloomberg News reporter David R. Baker explains how the Golden State's so-called "cap-and-trade" system for greenhouse gasses is struggling to function in a pandemic-afflicted world. Learn more about your ad-choices at https:/...
Coronavirus Is in Air, on Surfaces and Even in Sewage
May 27, 2020 18:40 - 10 minutes - 9.64 MBThe human body isn't the only place the coronavirus can be found. Pieces of the pathogen can be found throughout the environment, even in the waste we flush down the toilet. On this week's episode of Parts Per Billion, reporter Sylvia Carignan explains how environmental testing for the coronavirus might work and why scientists are asking the EPA to get to work developing a standard method of testing. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.c...
Is EPA Trying to Help Older Workers, or Exploit Them?
May 20, 2020 17:42 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBThe EPA has a program to hire older workers to perform administrative, and sometimes more complex, duties. It's meant to help the seniors get some work experience and earn some income, but the workers' wages are drastically lower than those of their younger colleagues. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, reporter Stephen Lee explains who these workers are and why they continue working at the agency despite their low pay. Read more of Stephen's reporting on this issue here. Learn more a...
Where Crude Oil Goes When There's Nowhere to Store It
May 13, 2020 18:43 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBThe price of oil is at a once-unthinkable low due to the coronavirus pandemic and its accompanying drop off in demand. In fact, the global supply of crude outstrips demand by so much that simply finding a place to store it all is becoming a problem. This sudden shift in oil markets could have huge ramifications for the environment, as faulty or haphazard oil storage is a particularly acute source of pollution. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, we hear from Rachel Adams-Heard, a Bloombe...
GMO Debate Could Be Upended by Engineered Mosquitoes
May 06, 2020 18:10 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBThe prospect of the wide release of genetically engineered mosquitoes got much closer to reality recently when the EPA gave a biotech company permission to conduct a mosquito field trial in the Florida Keys. The environmental impacts of releasing GMO insects into the wild could be significant, but perhaps more significant is their potential to rid the world of mosquito-borne diseases. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, reporter Adam Allington explains what these mosquitoes are engineered...
'Tiger King,' Virus Make Wildlife a Bipartisan Issue
April 29, 2020 18:18 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBA strange confluence of events involving a hit Netflix TV show and a global pandemic originating from the animal trade has all of a sudden turned wildlife trafficking into a prime time topic on Capitol Hill. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, reporter Dean Scott explains why both Republicans and Democrats now view a crack down on the sale of wildlife as a winning political issue heading into this fall's elections. Read more reporting on this issue here. Learn more about your ad-choice...
Toxic Cleanup Slowdown Hits Low Income Areas Hardest
April 22, 2020 17:32 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MBThe EPA took action earlier this month to allow cleanup work at some toxic Superfund sites to slow down or even stop during the coronavirus pandemic. The agency did this to protect the workers cleaning up these sites, who may not be able to social distance on the job or to even find the necessary protective gear. But the move also negatively affects the neighborhoods near Superfund sites, many of which contain a disproportionate amount of public housing. On this week's episode of Parts Per...
Why Interior's Post-Virus Plan is Lots of Hunting
April 15, 2020 19:10 - 11 minutes - 11 MBThe Department of the Interior wants Americans to celebrate the (presumptive) end of the coronavirus pandemic this fall by going out to federal lands and hunting some animals. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, reporter Bobby Magill explains why the department wants to open up millions of acres of public wildlife refuges for hunting and what this could mean for the environment. Click here to read more of Bobby's reporting on this issue. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www....
Pandemic's Effects on Environment Are Good, Bad, Weird
April 08, 2020 19:10 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBThe massive scope of the coronavirus pandemic is having some strange effects on the environment. For example, some sewer operators are reporting an increased rate of blockages caused by a pile up of those "flushable" sanitizing wipes everyone is using. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, we speak with California correspondent Emily C. Dooley about some of the strange environmental trends that have popped up in her state and elsewhere as a result of the pandemic and its economic aftermath....
Virus Strains Waste Industry, Regulators Weigh Relief
April 01, 2020 16:47 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBThe waste management industry is about to get a deluge of medical waste as the coronavirus pandemic ramps up in the U.S. This deluge is also coming at a time when many of its employees will likely be getting sick. On today's episode of Parts Per Billion, reporter Sylvia Carignan talks about how the industry is asking for some leniency from environmental regulators and about how that leniency could affect the environment. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork...
Judges Struggle With Environmental Cases Amid Pandemic
March 25, 2020 17:36 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBEnvironmental problems persist, so federal judges hearing environmental cases are struggling to make sure this litigation doesn't grind to a halt. On today's episode of Parts Per Billion, legal reporter Ellen M. Gilmer talks about the many virus-related delays in these cases and about one case over the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in which a judge decided a hearing must go on. (Note: After the recording of this episode, the judge in the Dakota pipeline case issued a ruling. Visit n...
EPA Grudgingly Embraces Telecommuting Amid Pandemic
March 18, 2020 15:53 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBThe EPA under the Trump administration has frowned upon allowing its own employees to work from home—that is, until a global pandemic suddenly changed the agency's mind. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, reporter Stephen Lee talks about the EPA's approach toward telework, how the coronavirus has altered that approach, and about the Trump administration's attempt to bring private-sector management philosophies into the government. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartp...
Gun Toting Ranchers May Win With Trump Grazing Policy
March 11, 2020 17:59 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBA group of heavily armed ranchers made headlines a few years ago by getting into a tense standoff with law enforcement during their protest of federal grazing policies. Though those Obama-era protests more or less fizzled out, Bloomberg Environment's Bobby Magill says now the Trump administration may be poised to give the angry ranchers nearly everything they wanted. Magill joins our podcast, Parts Per Billion, to talk about the proposal to change grazing rules on federal lands and what its...
Honey Bees Get Attention, But Native Bees Need Help
February 28, 2020 17:10 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBProblems with honey bees have grabbed headlines, but scientists say we should really be tracking the health of native bee species. That's one of many topics discussed at a recent annual conference in Seattle for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS. Bloomberg Environment's Adam Allington was at the conference and held a live taping of our special six-part podcast series, Business of Bees. Host: David Schultz. Producers: Jessica Coomes, Marissa Horn, Josh Block. ...
Dominion, Duke Hike to Supreme Court in Trail Dispute
February 18, 2020 17:24 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBTwo energy companies, Dominion and Duke, want to build a pipeline underneath the famed Appalachian Trail, but environmentalists want them to go take a hike. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, we head out to the trail with Bloomberg Environment's Ellen M. Gilmer and find out what this dispute is about and why it's heading all the way to the Supreme Court. Host: David Schultz. Editors: Marissa Horn and Josh Block. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Se...