Patriotism and the Environment
(Earth Focus: Episode 3) This episode of Earth Focus features three special segments.
We start by interviewing Russell Peterson, the former director of the Council on Environmental Quality during the Nixon and Ford Administrations, and a former Republican Governor of Delaware, who has written a book that blasts the environmental record of President George W. Bush. The book, "Patriots, Stand Up! This Land Is Our Land; Fight to Take It Back," accuses the Bush Administration of broadly deceiving the American people, not just about the environment, but about the war in Iraq, terrorism, and the economy.
This interview is followed by two in-depth reports. The first is on Perchloroethylene, or perc, the chemical solvent used by most drycleaning stores, that may cause cancer and and has been a public health concern since the late 1970s. The Environmental Protection Agency calls perc "moderately toxic" to humans and classifies perc as a water and air pollutant. Until recently, there were few alternatives to perc for people looking to clean clothes with tough stains or made with fine fabrics. But now, new green garment cleaning technologies are taking the perc, and the dirt, out of clothes.
We end by visiting the site of the Embrey Dam, built in 1910 by the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia to harness the power of the Rappahannock River. The dam was breached recently when explosives planted by the Army Corps of Engineers blew apart its concrete walls. The historic event drew a crowd of thousands from the Fredericksburg area who came to witness the spectacle and to celebrate the environmental restoration of their community's river.
Learn more on Link TV's climate change pages.
(5/3/2007)
(Earth Focus: Episode 3) This episode of Earth Focus features three special segments.
We start by interviewing Russell Peterson, the former director of the Council on Environmental Quality during the Nixon and Ford Administrations, and a former Republican Governor of Delaware, who has written a book that blasts the environmental record of President George W. Bush. The book, "Patriots, Stand Up! This Land Is Our Land; Fight to Take It Back," accuses the Bush Administration of broadly deceiving the American people, not just about the environment, but about the war in Iraq, terrorism, and the economy.
This interview is followed by two in-depth reports. The first is on Perchloroethylene, or perc, the chemical solvent used by most drycleaning stores, that may cause cancer and and has been a public health concern since the late 1970s. The Environmental Protection Agency calls perc "moderately toxic" to humans and classifies perc as a water and air pollutant. Until recently, there were few alternatives to perc for people looking to clean clothes with tough stains or made with fine fabrics. But now, new green garment cleaning technologies are taking the perc, and the dirt, out of clothes.
We end by visiting the site of the Embrey Dam, built in 1910 by the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia to harness the power of the Rappahannock River. The dam was breached recently when explosives planted by the Army Corps of Engineers blew apart its concrete walls. The historic event drew a crowd of thousands from the Fredericksburg area who came to witness the spectacle and to celebrate the environmental restoration of their community's river.
Learn more on Link TV's climate change pages.
(5/3/2007)
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