This week on Eastern Standard:
Under the Trump administration, the EPA is moving to relax anti-pollution controls and is dismantling its scientific research arm. We invited Kentucky Resources Council executive director Ashley Wilmes, an environmental attorney, to help us distill these actions down to local consequences.
The increased frequency of intense rainstorms is driving the cost of homeowners' insurance up and home market values down. Our guest is Jeremy Porter, chief economist at First Street, a climate risk analysis non-profit.
Bill Meck knows his way around weather radar. The WLEX meteorologist is John Bobel’s first guest in his new series on emergency response.
Begun in the 1930s, redlining was the federal government’s practice of outlining in red the areas on maps with sizable non-White populations to indicate to mortgage lenders that they were not loan-worthy. This led to the systematic denial of services, resources, and opportunities. Kristen LaRue and Regina Lewis from “Black Yarn” join us to detail the debut screening of their documentary, Lexington: Resilience In The Redline.
