REFINEMENT: Cracking the Plastic Production Boom – Plastic Plague Pt 2
REFINEMENT - Once extracted, how does oil and gas become the resin that will eventually be the plastic we use in our daily lives? Then we buy these products, the social and environmental justice issues...
View ArticleLA Public Utility Methane Leak Poisons Sun Valley Community
The City of Los Angeles public utility admitted that its Valley Generating Station had been leaking methane gas into the community for three years. The utility knew about the leaks as part of efforts...
View ArticleTrump Approves Disastrous Keystone XL, the Blind Leading the Blind
Trump and his Big Oil cronies want to destroy all of us, just green-lighting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, one in a long line of planned and approved climate and environmental policy...
View ArticleSan Onofre: Beachfront Leaky Nuclear Waste Facility Underway
San Onofre Nuclear Plant, on the coast of California, is busy building a nuclear waste dump for 1,600 tons of spent fuel on a bluff overlooking the Pacific. Most U.S. nuclear power facilities store...
View ArticlePeople’s Climate March in LA Harbor Highlights Tesoro’s Dangerous Operations
Thousands marched on April 29th across the US and the world calling for solutions to the growing global climate crisis. In Los Angeles, thousands converged near a major petroleum refinery near two...
View ArticleJerry Brown Passes Cap and Trade Written by the Oil Industry
California extended its Cap and Trade system until 2030, a symbolic move that actually allows grave concessions to the oil industry, ties the hands of local agencies ability to regulate greenhouse...
View ArticleExtreme Winds and Wildfires, On Overcoming California Climate Chaos
Jack Eidt writes on the California wildfires and their dangerous connection with climate change, melting of Arctic sea ice, and the drying out of the US West Coast. We must reduce our dependency on...
View ArticleMontecito Mudslides, Climate Chaos Impact Chumash People – EcoJustice Radio
Marcus Lopez Senior, member of the Barbareno Chumash Nation in California, speaks with Jack Eidt from SoCal 350 on climate chaos and the impacts on the Chumash people from fires, mudslides,...
View ArticleAnthropocene Arrives, Climate Collapses, and No One Cares
Clive Hamilton writes on how governments, people, corporations, the world continues to plan for the future as if climate scientists don’t exist. The greatest shame is the absence of a sense of tragedy....
View ArticleLoose Nuts: Edison Reveals Huge Gap in Safety at San Onofre
Toonman Collamer opines: Work crews transferring radioactive spent fuel (nuclear waste) at the San Onofre nuclear plant from cooling pools into dry storage discovered a loose bolt inside one of the...
View ArticleSan Onofre Beach as Permanent Nuclear Waste Dump
According to a former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chief, the beach in front of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station could become a permanent nuclear waste dump. Learn why Edison's program of storing...
View ArticleRise for Climate Los Angeles: September 8
On September 8, the international Rise for Climate Day of Action is bringing people together for Climate, Jobs, and Justice, calling on governments, corporations, and organizations to initiate...
View ArticleSan Onofre Nuclear Waste Dangers Compound
Since it was closed for safety violastions in 2012, the dangers of San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) between Orange County and San Diego have only continued to loom. Listen to this...
View ArticleConfronting Wildfire: Retrofit Communities, Not Forests
As California continues with massive wind-driven, high-intensity wildfires that often turn deadly, the governmental and institutional response has been to thin forests and "grind up vegetation" to...
View ArticleHow Indigenous People Will End Tar Sands Pipelines – EcoJustice Radio
Carry Kim from EcoJustice Radio talks with Lydia Ponce, a Mayo-Quechua Indigenous activist, member of AIM (American Indian Movement), and Co-Director of Idle No More SoCal. She also works as SoCal 350...
View ArticleNuclear Waste: The Los Angeles Meltdown & Cover-Up – EcoJustice Radio
The Nov. 2018 Woolsey Fire in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties burned 96,949 acres, destroyed 1,643 structures, killed three people, and prompted the evacuation of more than 295,000 people. The fire...
View ArticleLos Angeles Steps Up Transition Toward 100% Renewable Energy
The LA Mayor declared the city won't spend $5 billion to re-power three aging natural gas plants, and instead called for transitioning the nation's largest municipal utility to 100% clean, renewable...
View ArticleWet’suwet’en Chiefs Battle Coastal GasLink ‘Invasion’ in B.C.
Check out this short film on the ongoing struggle of the Unist’ot’en Camp of the Wet’suwet’en Nation to reoccupy their lands and stop pipeline construction. The battle against a natural-gas project...
View ArticleConnecting Waste and Climate Change – National Zero Waste Conference
From resource extraction to product creation and consumption, to disposal, reuse, or landfill, there are climate disrupting effects and potentials for zero waste as climate loving solutions. This is...
View ArticleEXTRACTION: Fracking and Drilling for Plastic Dreams – Plastic Plague Pt 1
The Plastic Plague all starts with fracking and drilling, which fouls air and water, and industrializes landscapes. This is PART ONE of a special seven-part series on EcoJustice Radio, called, “The...
View ArticleIs Nuclear Waste at San Onofre Safe?
On today’s show Carry Kim speaks with special guest Torgen Johnson, an urban planner and community activist from coastal San Diego County here to discuss the stranded nuclear waste situation at the now...
View ArticleAn Environmental Advocate’s Response to ‘Planet of the Humans’
The Michael Moore-produced, Jeff Gibbs video, Planet of the Humans, uses the capitalism onslaught that has caused disaster across the planet as an Earth Day opportunity to lob spitballs at...
View ArticleDeadly Waters – Oil Spills & The Future of Offshore Drilling
EcoJustice Radio covers the deadly waters of oil spilling in Orange County, CA, and how to move beyond offshore drilling in the US after recent disasters. Jack Eidt from WilderUtopia and Emily Parker...
View ArticleZeroHouz: Ditching Fossil Fuels for a Zero Emissions Home
What would it take to transform a 100 year old house sitting near oil fields into the most sustainable clean energy zero-emissions house?EcoJustice Radio spoke with architect Avideh Haghighi on her...
View ArticleThe Truth About Hydrogen: Green Fuel or Greenwash?
EcoJustice Radio guest, Ashley Kosak, Research and Project Management Fellow with FracTracker Alliance, and CEO of Green Aero, explains how hydrogen is generated, transported, stored, and burned; the...
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