This week's Bill Moyers NOW - Christine Todd Whitman (EPA), more...

[Wonk]

http://www.pbs.org/now/thisweek/index.html

This week on NOW:

Christine Todd Whitman arrived in Washington to head up the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with commendable credentials as a former governor of New Jersey who supported pro-environmental policies. So why was she criticized for overseeing a period rife with the wholesale gutting of key environmental protections by the Bush Administration? In May, barely two years into the job, she resigned. NOW examines the new priorities at the EPA, where, critics say, environmental protection takes a back seat to politics, and Whitman gives NOW a first-hand account of the controversies that dogged her tenure.
http://www.pbs.org/now/science/clearskies.html
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_clearingtheair.html

As President of the National Environmental Trust, it's Philip Clapp's job to inform the public about environmental problems and how they affect our health and quality of life. After working on energy and environmental issues in Washington since the 1970s, he's got some tough words about the current U.S. strategy. Clapp talks to Bill Moyers about how our national environmental policy may affect our international relations, his concerns about how ties to the oil and nuclear industries have directed that policy, and the politics behind the new energy bill.

http://www.pbs.org/now/science/ceq.html
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_clapp.html

Through characters like Easy Rawlins, writer Walter Mosley has taken millions of us into the world of Black working class America. Best known as a mystery, science fiction, and short story writer, Mosley says: "I think that any good fiction will tell you more about the era... than history will." But Mosley is also known in some circles for his strong political views, his activism and works of non-fiction. Earlier this year, Mosley took time off from writing mysteries to publish WHAT NEXT: A MEMOIR TOWARD WORLD PEACE, an essay about world peace and his own opposition to war in Iraq. NPR's Deborah Amos talks to Mosley about his latest mystery, FEAR ITSELF and about his experience of 9/11 as an African-American.
http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/mosley.html

Plus, a Bill Moyers Journal.
Moyers on Old Friends and Comrades in Arms
(snip)
French fries. As American as apple pie.

Check your local listings.
http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html

[Wonk]

1. Time zone kick

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3. Time zone kick

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Thanks Wonk.

TYY :kick:

On Edit: Fix my kick. :hi:

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5. . . .

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[Ilsa]

6. Clapp was great.

:kick:

It's worthwhile tv.

[Wonk]

7. mp3s

Gray Skies (Whitman, EPA, Philip Clapp) 7.6 M

Walter Mosley, 3.2 M

Moyers Journal, 1 M

[Wonk]

12. quicktimes

Gray Skies, 108 M

Walter Mosley, 40 M

Moyers Journal, 16 M

repost from last week's show

9/11 widows mp3, 4 M

9/11 widows quicktime, 62 M

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13. Thanks, Wonk. Catching NOW on PBS is iffy for many of us.

In my area, it is shown on Sundays at 5:30pm.

Think NFL.

How many American males will see Bill Moyers in these areas?

Yes, my local PBS station airs Bill. But to whom?

[quaker bill]

8. Excellent reporting on EPA

They didn't push her around too much, but you got the strong impression the EPA is now politically driven by industry lobbies.

As manager of a state environmental enforcement program, I have seen federal involvement and support for our cases evaporate over the last 2 years. I am still working with the same people, (well, those who haven't been laid off) but it has become increasingly clear that the rug has pulled out from under them.

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14. Could you tell us more?

please.

[TeeYiYi]

9. "French fries are as American as apple pie." . . .

That was great. I love Bill Moyers. :hug: . . . You too Wonk. :hug:

TYY

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10. kick

[proud patriot]

11. This was a great show

whitman's interview was a hoot ..:evilgril: