Elizabeth Shogren, climate change reporter, joins us to discuss the tens of thousands of school-age children who are within half a mile of active wells and why city officials are pushing back against laws that prioritize drilling permits.
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Forget The Planet – The Economics Of Fracking May Not Work
Bethany McLean joins us to discuss how new extraction techniques like fracking have promised huge future gains for the industry, and whether those anticipated returns are based on reality.
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The Philosophy Of Activism
UNT assistant philosophy professor Adam Riggle joins us to talk about his book “A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas.”
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Sizing Up Our Seismic Activity
We’ll talk this hour about the recent increase in North Texas earthquakes with SMU seismologist Brian Stump and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Lisa Song of Inside Climate News.
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Drilling Deep
Is fracking the solution to our dependence on foreign oil or a potential environmental disaster? We’ll discuss the issue this hour with the author of a new book on the topic.
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