How Environmentalists And Coal Workers Worked Together To Save An Upstate NY Town

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 9, 2017

Elizabeth McGowan, an independent energy and environment reporter, discusses her recent article for Grist, "Rising from the ashes, a Buffalo suburb ends its dependence on coal." McGowan looks at how coal workers and environmentalists in an upstate New York community joined forces to save their town from financial ruin and, in doing so, created a template for other blue-collar towns facing the loss of dirty energy jobs and other polluting industries.

Jonathan Capehart guest hosted this segment of "The Leonard Lopate Show."

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