Protecting the Great Lakes, Ocean Acidification Warnings on Capitol Hill, Plastics Recycling, NY Passes E-Waste Bill and Blocks Natural Gas Drilling, Atrazine's Threats, Biofuels in Comprehensive Climate Bill

In a PBS documentary called “Fragile Waterways” Thom Cmar stressed the need to “close the door to invasive species” in the Great Lakes… Thom also spoke to AM900 radio about the Asian carp crisis [Listen Here]…  Sigourney Weaver spoke to lawmakers about ocean acidification and the need for comprehensive climate legislation at an Earth Day event covered by the Associated Press. She also screened NRDC’s “Acid Test” at a Capitol Hill luncheon. More than 20 media outlets including USA Today and Reuters reported on her Hill campaign…

Eric Goldstein was a guest on NYC NPR’s Leonard Lopate Show and explained the process that plastic goes through when it is recycled… In an interview with WAMC– the public radio station of the American Northeast— Kate Sinding discussed the passing of an electronic waste recycling bill by the New York State Senate… In a New York Times print article Kate discussed the state’s decision to temporarily block drilling for natural gas in the Catskills and whether that will be enough to protect the state’s watersheds…

An online CBS News Investigative Unit article about EPA’s renewed investigation of the safety of the pesticide atrazine cited an NRDC report on the possible adverse health effects of the chemical… In a Greenwire article picked up by the New York Times, Franz Matzner spoke about how climate and energy legislation creates “an enormous new pressure and incentive to use biomass to create energy”… Adrianna Quintero spoke about Earth Day and clean energy on Voces de Nuestro Mundo, a National Network Spanish language radio show…

Peter Lehner did a fifteen minute interview in Spanish on Radio Kama in El Paso, Texas, about Earth Day and the need for clean energy legislation, and on Earth Day, Wendy Gordon gave tips on green living Sirius XM radio’s on Martha Stewart Whole Living…