Parts Per Billion

What's wrong with the EPA's Office of Civil Rights? What's it doing to reform itself? And could it have prevented the Flint water crisis? We speak with Rachel Leven, Bloomberg BNA's environmental justice reporter, about problems at the EPA's civil rights watchdog and about who has been held accountable for Flint... at least, so far.

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Power companies are soon going to have to decide whether to renew the licenses of nuclear reactors that were built in the 1960s. We speak with Bloomberg BNA energy reporter Rebecca Kern about how to keep a nuclear plant running past its sixth decade and whether it's even financially worth it to try.

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The second in a two-part conversation with DC Water chief George Hawkins: why water utilities don't have as many options as you might think to address the threat of lead-contaminated water.

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The first in a two-part conversation with DC Water chief George Hawkins: Where will the money come from to allow water utilities to move into the future while fixing the past and still keep operating in the present? In two weeks: the second part of our conversation in which Hawkins addresses the Flint crisis and talks about new monitoring technology that might help prevent something like it from happening again.

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The U.S. response to the Zika virus outbreak goes way beyond just the CDC. In this episode, we sit down with the top Zika response official at the EPA to talk about how the entire federal government--even the Department of Education--is playing a role.

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We go digging into the sustainability reports VW filed in the years leading up to its emissions test cheating scandal to look for clues that might have indicated something was amiss.

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This week, we talk with Bloomberg BNA energy reporter Alan Kovski about why things aren't going as badly as they seem for the Canadian oil industry and why, fresh off their victory on the Keystone pipeline, environmentalists face a tough road ahead with other, larger pipeline mega-projects in the works.

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This week we speak to Michael Standaert, our correspondent in China, about how to cover the environment in a country where it can be hard to get reliable data on just how bad the problem really is. He also talks about the urban/rural divide in China that is shaping how the country goes about cleaning up its air, water and soil.

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Though they may try, it's looking like Republicans in Congress won't be able to stop the Paris climate change agreement. On this episode of Parts Per Billion, Bloomberg BNA climate change reporter Dean Scott explains why the political math is not in the GOP's favor on this issue. He also previews this fall's climate conference in Morocco and talks about what it was like to cover last year's negotiations in Paris.

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What would environmental policy look like under President Donald J. Trump? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ On this episode of Bloomberg BNA's Parts Per Billion podcast, we talk to political reporter Anthony Adragna about the uncertainty surrounding what a Trump administration would do on climate change, renewable fuels, power plant emissions and much, much more.

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