First, a look at Canada-U.S. trade talks, set to resume this January, with ProPublica reporter Anna Clark. Then, we were joined by Paul Mohai, a professor of environmental justice and former senior policy advisor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice, and Charles Lee, a visiting scholar at Howard University and former senior policy advisor at the Office of Environmental Justice at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to discuss their research investigating the effects of environmental hazards endemic to Southwest Detroit. Also, we heard about the mass auctioning off of small, family-owned logging and sawmill businesses in Michigan from Environment Reporter Ellie Katz on Interlochen Public Radio's "Points North" podcast.
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GUESTS ON TODAY’S SHOW:
- Anna Clark, reporter at ProPublica
- Paul Mohai, professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Michigan, co-founder of the University of Michigan’s Environmental Justice program, former senior policy advisor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice
- Charles Lee, visiting scholar at Howard University, former senior policy advisor at the Office of Environmental Justice at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, former director of the Environmental Justice Program at the United Church of Christ
- Ellie Katz, environment reporter at Interlochen Public Radio
