EcoNews Report #262: Dissecting Trump’s First Week This episode originally aired February 1st, 2025. President Trump has entered his second term with a wave of executive orders and other executive actions. These have pulled the U.S. from international...
EcoNews Report #257: What Gives You Hope? This episode originally aired December 21st, 2024. Environmentalists have a reputation for being a bit too doom-and-gloom. But what gives us hope? Jen Kalt of Humboldt Waterkeeper, Alicia Hamann of Friends of the Eel River,...
EcoNews Report #256 Earthquake https://eelriver.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Econews-256-Earthquake.mp3 What’s the difference between a strike-slip fault and a subduction zone? Can a 7.0-magnitude earthquake generate a tsunami? And what on earth was going on with...
EcoNews Report #251 Pre-Election Jitters with Rep. Jared Huffman https://eelriver.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Econews-251-Huffman-Check-in-Air-Final.mp3 Congressman Huffman is back on the show. With a major election in just a few days, what is the Congressman up...
EcoNews Report #248 Sonoma Groundwater https://eelriver.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Econews-248-Sonoma-Groundwater-Air-Final.mp3 In late August, Russian Riverkeeper and the California Coastkeeper Alliance got what looks like a very significant ruling in their...
Chevron deference is no more. What’s Chevron deference you ask? Well, it was the backbone of our federal administrative state. Congress often passes laws that are vague or are capable of multiple interpretations. In Chevron, decided in 1984, the Supreme Court...