Talk Nation Radio:72 Cities Demand Clean Air Act Be Enforced

Thursday, 17 October 2013, 5:08 pm
Column: David Swanson

Talk Nation Radio: 72 Cities Demand Clean Air Act Be Enforced to Protect Climate

by David Swanson
October 15, 2013
http://davidswanson.org/node/4181

https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-72-cities

Rose Braz is the Climate Campaign Director for the Center for Biological Diversity's Climate Law Institute. The Clean Air Cities campaign has thus far organized 72 cities, large and small, across the United States, to pass resolutions demanding that the EPA make full use of the Clean Air Act to cut the greenhouse gas pollution that is drastically changing the earth's climate. See http://CleanAirCities.org

Total run time: 29:00

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Producer: David Swanson.
Music by Duke Ellington.

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David Swanson's new book is War No More: The Case for Abolition. He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works for http://rootsaction.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @davidcnswanson and Facebook.

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