WNAV Radio Annapolis reporter Donna Cole is featured in this report which won her awards and honors from the Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists. Learn about a banned toxic pesticide that hunt clubs on Maryland's Eastern Shore are still using to poison predator animals.

Includes items from E&E News, Inside Climate News, CNN Politics.com, including the two Democratic debates this week, Climate Emergency declared down under and Defense funding from the U.S. Senate

News from The Grist, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal about Clean Power act; the student lawsuit against the US government and more.

Our guest is Maryland based Neighborhood Sun CEO and Founder Gary Skulnik.

A new documentary, The River and The Wall, explores the river and the land that will be lost to US citizens and all the other creatures that call it home if Trump builds his wall. With filmmaker Hillary Pierce.

The plan to re-open wetlands and smaller streams and tributaries to uncontrolled pollution could take our favorite riverwalks and waterfronts back to the dirty old days of our national treasures being treated like toilets, toxic great lakes, burning rivers, and fish kills. With Charleston-based Brad Holman, managing attorney of the Southern Environmental Law Center.

We get the low-down and find out what carbon has to do with it with Dr. Sarah Cooley of the Ocean Conservancy

Wish it were seagrass Sunday. That's my Blue Carbon Fun Day-with a wink and a nod to the 80's band The Bangles, Susan Di Giulio gets the low down from Dr. Emily Pidgeon of Conservation International, about damage that's been done to the true heroes of sucking carbon out of the air we breathe and trapping it below marshes and oceans. Pidgeon is the leader of the Blue Carbon initiative, which wants to save the places the world depends on for life.

A Talk with a coalition of religious organizations in the Washington, DC area on how it’s organizing to get places of worship to take steps to shrink their carbon footprint and reuse resources, with the Co-Chair of the Montgomery County Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions, Walter Weiss. Rita Rich is the host.

Oceans are our best defense against climate chaos, but they are under siege in so many ways that we are giving them a multi-episode series. Dr. George Leonard, a chief scientist of the Ocean Conservancy, lays out some basics.