NRDC's segments on EcoTalk

U.S. Climate Action Partnership

Frances Beinecke tells about the coalition of large corporations, including Duke Energy, DuPont, General Electric, and PG&E, who are demanding strong leadership on climate change from the Federal Government, just in time for tomorrow's State of the Union speech: "The most important thing we'd like to see the president to do is commit to a cap-and-trade proposal that reduces our carbon emissions. But we're not that optimistic." LISTEN (11 min)

The National Teachers Association Rejects 50.000 Convenient DVDs

Why did the National Science Teachers Association reject 50,000 free copies of An Inconvenient Truth, but freely show videos created with the backing of Conoco Phillips? Jon Coifman wonders the same thing. LISTEN (11 min)

Global warming and trouts

OnEarth explores the impact of global warming on trout habitat in Montana: how anglers and environmentalists can join forces.  Listen (7 min)

George Black is Articles Editor of OnEarth. His most recent book is The Trout Paradox.
"Fishermen talk tirelessly, sometimes tiresomely, about 'reading the river.' But no one has ever done it with as much precision, dedication, insight, and sheer passion as George Black. This is one not to let get away." — Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

How to clean coal

Coal-fired power plants are the single largest source of man-made CO2, accounting for one quarter to one third of the world's total.
An entire generation of obsolete coal-fired power plants built in the 1950s and 1960s needs to be replaced.

David Hawkins, director of the NRDC's Climate Center explains the strategic importance of choosing the right technology for the new coal plants that are going to be built:  "If the plants are not designed up front to capture their CO2, they will lock us into large amounts of global-warming emissions for their entire operating lifetimes."   LISTEN (7 min)

Read the feature story by Craig Canine in onearth