In this episode, Sharon Lavigne shares her experience fighting to stop petrochemical factories and other toxic industries in America’s Cancer Alley in St. James Parish, LA. Sharon Lavigne is a recipient of the Community Sentinel Award for Environmental Stewardship, and won the 2021 Goldman prize for environmental defenders. She led a grassroots movement to delay the $9.4 billion Formosa plastic factory in her hometown. This podcast is a project of Halt the Harm Network, which can connect you wit...
Jun 07, 2022•13 min•Season 3Ep. 4
In this episode, Allie Rosenbluth tells us about her work organizing rural communities across southern Oregon to stop the proposed Jordan Cove Liquified Natural Gas export terminal and Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline. The Jordan Cove LNG project would produce 15 times the climate pollution of Oregon’s last remaining coal plant and create enormous environmental impacts across 4 Oregon counties, including threatening drinking water for 160,000 people, increasing the danger of wildfires, and...
May 31, 2022•13 min•Season 3Ep. 3
In this episode, Ron Gulla shares his experience being impacted by fracking and challenging the industry in PA. Ron Gulla is a recipient of the Community Sentinel Award for Environmental Stewardship, and one of the first voices to speak out against fracking in PA after his farm was contaminated by Range Resources. This podcast is a project of Halt the Harm Network, which can connect you with people who are working to protect families, communities, and the environment from the harms of fracking a...
May 24, 2022•20 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Hi Friends! It's been a while since we released an episode – but we're back with a new season! This introductory episode introduces you to Krishna Roy, who will be hosting some of the upcoming episodes of the podcast. We talk about the value of getting to know people in the movement beyond what we hear at meetings, rallies, or press conferences. This season you'll hear some new interviews by Krishna mixed in with some event recorded adapted for the podcast. Please join the conversation around th...
May 02, 2022•13 min•Season 3Ep. 1
In this episode Travis London shares his story of taking leadership on environmental issues in his community in Donaldsonville Louisiana. We talk about networking, movement building, and learn about his experience fighting the Bayou Bridge Pipeline which would connect oil from the Bakken fields with refineries on the Gulf Coast. Travis wants all of us to know and remember the power of people when we connect with each other and defend our communities. He says “we’re the ones who give power to the...
Dec 05, 2018•40 min•Season 2Ep. 6
In this episode Andy Myers joins us to talk about using film as a tool for organizing and mobilizing around an issue. Andy Myers is the Campaign Coordinator for Working Films. A longtime proponent of linking films and activists, he has coordinated several state and national film campaigns, facilitated cross-organizational coalitions, and led multiple trainings for NGO’s and grassroots leaders aimed at using documentary film to advance their work. Andy’s shares tips on using films effectively, an...
Nov 21, 2018•43 min•Season 2Ep. 5
In this episode Dante Swinton, the coordinator of the Divert Baltimore Program talks about organizing and advocating for alternatives to developing a waste incinerator that would cause a public health crisis in Baltimore. By taking leadership and a design thinking approach, Dante is able to show that diverting the waste from incineration has social, environmental, and economic benefits. Dante advocates for thinking outside of the box, instead of just focusing on what we’re against. He says it’s ...
Nov 07, 2018•58 min•Season 2Ep. 4
In this episode you’ll hear a recording of a webinar presentation that Eliza Griswold, author of Amity and Prosperity brought to the network. The presentation is followed by a Q&A with Eliza. In Amity and Prosperity, the prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. “In her new book, Amity and Prosperity, journalist E...
Oct 24, 2018•56 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In this episode Raina Rippel from the Environmental Health Project talks about the Citizen Science Toolkit, a helpful resource for anyone who wants to protect their family and neighbors from the harms of fracking. This toolkit is an expansive document that details ways that anyone can participate in monitoring environmental health impacts. We talk about the implications of health monitoring, how the toolkit was created, and provide some insight into the role of citizen science in protecting ours...
Oct 10, 2018•28 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Walter Hang from Toxics Targeting has led unprecedented victories against oil and gas projects in upstate NY – and in this interview he explains his strategy of balancing the message with an incredibly focused demand. The trick, he says, is that there is no trick – there are no shortcuts to the hard work, training, and commitment we need to win. What’s remarkable is that even though it’s challenging, the principles are actually quite simple, but we need to avoid the mistake of pouring effort int...
Sep 26, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Welcome to Halt the Harm Podcast, I'm your host Ryan Clover. The network is to support leaders who are taking action to protect themselves and their communities from the harms of oil and gas industry. The podcast is a way to learn more about the people in the network, how they got involved, what work they're doing. If you have a story to share, please visit halttheharm.net/podcast or contact us at support@halttheharm.net If you have questions about fracking, impacts, zoning, regulations, or orga...
Sep 12, 2018•2 min•Season 2Ep. 1
In this episode Karen Edelstein helps us understand how maps are used as a powerful tool in protecting our communities. Maps gives us a big picture view of the land, industrial activity, and even the various people and organizations working to protect the environment. By comparing maps and data we can discover new trends, even possibilities for our work. As mentioned in this episode: FracTracker Alliance FracTracker's Resource Page Map of New York State bans and moratoria on high volume hydrauli...
Nov 30, 2016•37 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Ranjana Bhandari is a mother and economics lecture. She bought a house in Arlington Texas in 1993. It’s Texas, so it didn’t shock them when the realtor mentioned mineral rights – but hundreds of fracking wells right in their neighborhood, on school campuses, street corners, and city blocks? It was hard to believe. Most of her neighbors signed the gas leases during the recession in 2008. It was hard to turn down the money. But Ranjana and her husband refused. Chesapeake called them incessantly, t...
Nov 14, 2016•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Melinda Tuhus has been an environmental activist for decades – but throughout the past five years has become focused on the fight to slow climate change. As a reporter she's covered climate stories like mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia and the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. In this interview she shares her perspective on climate organizing and working with Beyond Extreme Energy . For Melinda, meeting people and visiting communities impacted by extreme energy led to a deepe...
Nov 07, 2016•40 min•Season 1Ep. 9
On this episode we've got two guests, Heather Harr and Sara Rasmussen – we're talking about the impacts of fracking on public health. Heather Harr is the project director for the League of Women Voters in Pennsylvania's Straight Scoop on Shale Drilling. She talks about the upcoming Shale and Public Health Conference, and also shares some valuable resources about public health impacts of fracking. The conference is for health professionals and community members interested in how the fracking indu...
Oct 31, 2016•36 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Gillian moved into a residential suburban neighborhood to raise her children and live a peaceful life – but then she received a letter from an environmental monitoring group warning her about a proposal to frack for shale-gas in her neighborhood. If allowed, it would immediately endanger her family and community – so Gillian took action. In just a few years Gillian became a full time organizer dedicated to protecting her community from the harms of fracking. She talked with neighbors, reached ou...
Oct 07, 2016•41 min•Season 1Ep. 7
If you are concerned with fracking infrastructure you're going to find this interview with Lisa Graves-Marcucci incredibly valuable. Lisa shares two decades of experience challenging industrial activity such as coal, oil, and gas projects. She helps us understand what questions to ask, where to intervene, and how to identify the tactics used by industry to discourage us from getting involved. I hope you enjoy this episode of the Halt the Harm Podcast with Lisa Graves-Marcucci. As Mentioned in th...
Sep 26, 2016•47 min•Season 1Ep. 6
When Mike Younger learned about a compressor station being built near hear farm he started to ask questions – after hiking out to visit pipelines in rural Tennessee he was spurred into action. He found places where the pipes were exposed, crossing rivers, or in dangerous flood zones. He started taking pictures, gathering data, and compiling a report. Now the pipeline survey is a substantial report which is costing pipeline companies hundreds of thousands of dollars – in fact – if the companies w...
Sep 21, 2016•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 5
"In this episode, award winning environmental activist Vera Scroggins joins us from Pennsylvania to share her perspective on fighting fossil fuel development – even though it's sometimes uncomfortable or risky." See the complete shownotes at https://www.ecodefenseradio.org/2016/09/15/vera-scroggins/" Vera has been documenting violations of the fracking industry and leading tours to show first hand the impacts fracking is having in Pennsylvania. As a result, she's become a target of industry inti...
Sep 15, 2016•28 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this episode Alex Lotorto joins us from Northeast Pennsylvania to talk about the value of building grassroots support networks to sustain our movement. He shares valuable insight for anyone who cares about the future of the environmental movement and wants to support the people most impacted by the issues we talk about in our work." Click HERE to see the show notes at Eco-Defense Radio Links: Press Kit for Dimock Families Energy Justice Network Energy Justice Summer Halt the Harm Network Shal...
Sep 08, 2016•58 min•Season 1Ep. 3
"In this episode Alma Hasse joins us from Idaho to share how she became involved in organizing to protect her community from oil and gas impacts. Alma is a recipient of the Community Sentinel Awards presented by FracTracker Alliance. In this conversation Alma shares why she began confronting the oil and gas industry in Idaho." Click HERE to see the show notes from Eco-Defense Radio Links to stuff we talked about: Idaho Concerned Area Residents For The Environment : ICARE Citizens Allied for Inte...
Sep 07, 2016•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In this introductory episode I speak with Dawn Arteaga and Marty Kearns, both organizers with Halt the Harm Network – then Sam Rubright from FracTracker joins me to talk about the Community Sentinel Awards. Shownotes http://www.ecodefenseradio.org/2016/09/08/halt-the-harm-podcast-welcome-episode/
Sep 06, 2016•26 min•Season 1Ep. 1
