Best Of Earth911 Podcast: Project Censored’s 25 Under-Reported Environmental Stories of 2023

Best Of Earth911 Podcast: Project Censored’s 25 Under-Reported Environmental Stories of 2023

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As we enter 2024, closing the books on 2023’s report warmth, financial and geopolitical turmoil, and a raft of local weather change tales within the mainstream press, we’re lucky to have Project Censored’s Andy Lee Roth return to the present to debate the most under-reported environmental stories of the final 12 months. Andy final visited with us to debate 2022’s under-reported tales. Tune in for a wide-ranging dialog in regards to the hidden environmental tales reported on impartial information websites like The GuardianHigh Country News, and other news sources tracked by Project Censored.

Andy Lee Roth, affiliate director of the Media Freedom Foundation’s Project Censored, is our visitor on Sustainability In Your Ear.

The mainstream press has responded to rising public concern about local weather change with extra sensible info — they’ve assigned sustainability as a beat and employed columnists to ship action-oriented articles. But on the similar time, they don’t do the enterprise reporting required to uncover important environmental abuses by corporations and governments. We’re getting extra consideration to the local weather disaster however not sufficient digging into its persevering with sources, from deceptive analysis funded by personal corporations to the shortage of oversight of latest merchandise and chemical substances, like per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances. 

The information is what we make it, and on this period of transactional politics, too typically, it’s what we’re prepared to pay for. Now greater than ever, an impartial press is important. You can be taught extra about Project Censored’s 2023 under-reported environmental tales at https://www.projectcensored.org/

Editor’s Note: This podcast initially aired on January 29, 2024.