On Earth Day, environmental leaders from the Amazon, the Gulf South, and other communities come together in New York City, holding Citigroup, the world’s second-largest funder of coal, oil and gas, responsible for environmental racism.

MONDAY, APRIL 22
PROGRAM #10350 12:00 PM PT

Targeting Funders of Fossil Fuel. On Earth Day, environmental leaders from the Amazon, the Gulf South, and other communities come together in New York City, holding Citigroup, the world’s second-largest funder of coal, oil and gas, responsible for environmental racism. The female president of the indigenous Chapra Nation talks about the death threats she is facing for opposing oil extraction in Peru.

Guest: Olivia Bisa, President, Autonomous Territorial Government, Chapra Nation, Peru.

The PFAS Pollution Crisis. The chemical substances known as PFAS or “forever chemicals” because they never fully degrade, can be found in the blood of almost every person in the United States. Since these substances are linked to cancer, the United Nations called PFAS water pollution in some communities a human rights violation. Environmental advocates talk about the communities heavily hit by this contamination, the extent of the crisis and the meaning of the new federal requirement to reduce and get rid of “forever chemicals.”

Guest: Erick Orellana, Senior Policy Advocate, Community Water Center, Visalia, CA; Others TBA.

Photo: Mike Dot/Adobe Stock License

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