There's probably no tighter, nor a more acrimonious race for public office this year, than the contest between New York's 3-term Republican Senator, Alphonse D'Amato, and his Democratic challenger, Representative Charles Schumer. Also, new research on the perils of polluted estuaries for salmon.ĬAGNEY: They need areas to change their physiology from a freshwater environment to a saltwater environment, and estuaries are where they need to do that.ĬURWOOD: We'll have those stories and more this week on Living on Earth, but first this round-up of the news.ĬURWOOD: This is Living on Earth. What I know is that I had a real problem, and he took care of it for us.ĬURWOOD: Even green politics is local politics. KAYMAN: I don't know anything about voter scorecards or tallies that might have been taken. D'Amato scores low with many environmental organizations, but he's getting the green light from activists fighting an incinerator on Long Island. In a tight race to defend his Senate seat against Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer, New York Republican Alphonse D'Amato is chasing environmental votes. REPORTERS: Richard Schiffman, Terry FitzPatrick, Sandy TolanĬURWOOD: From National Public Radio, this is Living on Earth.
Last month we sent him back to Navajo country. Living on Earth's Sandy Tolan covered the uranium mining story in 1982. Last month at a hearing held by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Navajo citizens heard promises that, this time, extracting the uranium will be safe.
Now, a new mining company wants to go after the yellow rock. Many more suffer from debilitating respiratory diseases. In the generation since the old mines shut down, dozens of Navajo miners and others have died of lung cancer. But as hundreds of families who mined the uranium would later find out, the yellow ore was poison. By the mid-fifties the entire region was firmly entrenched in the nuclear age.
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And the find, together with discoveries in Utah, sparked a series of mining booms that changed life forever in the southwest. His handful of ore turned out to be uranium. One day in 1950, a Navajo man named Paddy Martinez picked up a few yellow rocks while herding sheep east of Crownpoint, New Mexico.
The endowment is expected to provide around $60,000 per year to support the reporting, music, and cultural programming on central Arkansas’s two public radio stations.Navajo Uranium Miners: Giving Their All / Sandy Tolan This operational gift ensures the continuity of these efforts and underscores their essentiality.” “The staff of KLRE/KUAR work tirelessly to provide quality news, programs, and music to central Arkansas. Sarah Beth Estes, dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Education. KUAR 89.1 is a National Public Radio affiliate, while KLRE Classical 90.5 is central Arkansas’ only classical FM radio station. UA Little Rock Public Radio is a public service unit of UA Little Rock. UA Little Rock Public Radio also raised $100,000 during the week. The anonymous gift comes on the final day of the drive and represents 10 times the drive’s fundraising goal of $150,000. The stations will use this gift to strengthen and expand their services as the region’s NPR news and information provider, classical music radio station, and as a local and regional news organization.” On behalf of the staff and listeners of KLRE and KUAR, I want to say a heartfelt thanks to the donor. “The generosity of this anonymous gift is considerable. “This gift is a wonderful testament to the impact of public radio,” said Nathan Vandiver, general manager of UA Little Rock Public Radio. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Public Radio, home of KUAR FM 89.1 and KLRE Classical 90.5, closed its annual fall fund drive with an anonymous donation of $1.5 million, the largest cash gift in the public radio stations’ history.
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