The EPA Dredging the Hudson River

Environmental Destruction in the Hudson... and Around the World.

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 1, 2015

Ned Sullivan, president of Scenic Hudson, and staffer Althea Mullarkey on the state of removing PCBs from the Hudson River. Conservationist Tom Butler, who edited the photography book, Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker, with actors Aaron Clifton Moten and Louisa Krause, starring in the revival of “The Flick.” And a Please Explain Look at fireworks, just in time for the 4th of July!

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