The Spy Who Came in From the Crude AND The Bug Alert Nearest You

Greg Palast, muckraker of choice, connects the dots between British Petroleum and the Exxon Valdez disaster, as we look back on the last 25 years of remediation, recalcitrance, retribution, and the hitting of the repeat button. More investigative work is available at greapalast.com. Dr. John Kabashima, UC Cooperative Extension environmental horticulture advisor, or "wise-crackin' plant sage" posts listeners on the pests that continue to blight crops, parklands, and our own gardens. As funding continues to decline on the state and federal levels, never has any emergency response been budgeted. Problems can be reported to: hotline@uccemg.com. Abundant resources are available at: ipm.ucdavis.edu, cisr.ucr.edu. Stay tuned for the 100th anniversary of the UC Cooperative extension May 6th and again on 9/27/14. 9/23/14 will be a good time to listen to this show for coverage.