Alec Baldwin kicks off the latest “Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman” program blasting the nuclear power industry as “criminal” and being like the tobacco and gun industries in not caring about killing people. They “want to walk over a pile of dead bodies,” declares Baldwin.
The half-hour program, titled “Nuclear Power Today,” will air on Free Speech TV at 4 p.m. Eastern Time this Saturday, October 27.
Free Speech TV is aired on nearly 200 cable television systems in 40 states across the United States and the two major satellite TV networks, DirectTV and Dish, as well as on the Internet.
This is the 27th year “Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman” has been broadcast. Grossman is a professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, author of six books, a newspaper columnist, and writer of numerous articles in print and on the Internet. He has received many honors for journalism including the George Polk Award.
Producing and directing “Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman” is Frank Melli. An editor and broadcast engineer at WPIX-TV/11 in New York City, Melli has received awards for his TV work on environmental issues. He has taught media literacy in New York City.
Appearing in “Nuclear Power Today,” in addition to Baldwin, is Janet Tauro, board chairman of Cleanwater Action of New Jersey, who describes the successful fight leading to the shutdown last month—after 49 years—of the oldest nuclear plant in the United States, Oyster Creek. Amy Goldsmith, New Jersey director of Cleanwater Action, speaks about the Trump administration’s assault on the environment and of challenging it. Attorney Susan Shapiro tells of the scheme to bail-out decrepit, uneconomical nuclear plants that has included a $7.6 billion bail-out imposed on ratepayers by New York State to keep four old upstate New York plants operating.
And, Joseph Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project, emphasizes that not only do Fukushima or Chernobyl-type catastrophes kill people, but the “routine” operation of a nuclear power plant spreads radioactivity resulting in illnesses and deaths, and his organization has documented this.
For more information on “Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman”—and to view many scores of programs done through the years—visit www.envirovideo.com For more information about FreeSpeech TV including what cable system it airs in your area, visit its website https://freespeech.org/