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 This episode originally aired December 14, 2024. 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 all that weird footage of...
EcoNews Report #251: Pre-Election Jitters with Rep. Jared Huffman This episode originally aired October 19, 2024. Congressman Huffman is back on the show. With a major election in just a few days, what is the Congressman up to? When he isn’t calling voters in swing...
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...
Special guest Rep. Jared Huffman is heading a task force in the Democratic caucus to address Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s policy outline for a second Trump administration. The document is pervaded by anti-science and anti-regulatory animus, with a...
