Are tiny power plants? The future of electricity? And is there a tiny amount of weed killer hiding in your breakfast? All that and more this week on Parts per Billion. Hello and welcome once again to Parts per Billion Bloomberg Environments Now weekly podcast. I'm your host, David Schultz, and you remember from last week that we're doing something new
here on Parts for Billion. It's a weekly news quiz where we grill Bloomberg Environment's finest journalists to see how they're keeping up with what's going on in the world. Last week, Abby Smith beats Sylvia Cariden in a two to one nailbiter. This week we've got two new contestants, Adam Allentin and Bobby McGill. Thanks guys for joining us here. Thank you happy to do it. So let's get right into it. As always, these questions are based on environmental
news from the past week. The winner of this quiz, of course, gets nothing but respect. The loser gets nothing but shame and humiliation. I should say before we start, we've actually if you recall last week, we had contestants raising their hands when they wanted to answer a question. This week, we've solved that problem and we have a bell so, Adam, if you could demonstrate the sound that
listeners will be hearing there. It is so if someone thinks they know the answer, you will hear that sound of a bell which I just purchased in Crystal City this morning. Lovely Crystal City. And it is an actual bell. The listener, Yes, this is not it's not like the kind of thing you ring in on at the front desk of a hotel. For some reason, you decided to get an actual bell. Yes, well, you know the store. I had a lot of options because you know, there's
shopping mecha of Crystal City, Virginia. But yeah, this is not an app. This is not a digitally created sound. It's the real thing. This is the real thing, totally analog. Enough stalling, let's get to the questions. Question number one, the Energy Department says the future of coal will be providing fuel to power plants that share this common attribute. Oh, this is Bobby, and Bobby is reaching for the bell.
Didn't really tiny power plants, that's right, And that was a relatively easy question because I mentioned that at the top of the show, tiny power plants. According to our colleague Rebecca Kern, the Energy Department thinks that coal is best suited to fuel tiny modular power plants that can be turned on and off, and also maybe able to better utilize clean coal technology if such a thing exists. Some people say it doesn't tiny power plants the future
of coal. We'll see. That's what the Energy Department thinks. Question number two. Quaker Oats is being sued because it's cereals allegedly contained residues of this chemical. That would be Adam Allenton. Adam, would you like to get the point what is glyfas it? Alex? Thank you, My name is not Alex, but you are right about that. Glynphasate the chemical and round up the weed killer that is the most widely sold pesticide in the world. Apparently it is
in Quaker Oats cereal. And there are people suing Quaker Oats saying you're you know, honey nut cheerios are not healthy despite your claims of healthfulness because they contain glycosate, we should say. Quaker Oats says this lawsuit is baseless and has no merit. The final question, we have a two to one to one tie. This is the question that will determine who wins this week. The final question here it is the Supreme Court is allowing this landmark
climate Oh, we were already okay the question. The Supreme Court is allowing this land of our climate change trial to move forward. Bobby McGill, Juliana case children's Okay, Well I was going for children's kids, young people, youth or Juliana. I guess that would have worked as well. Yes, the this is a landmark climate change trial in which that we you were actually we talked about last week on
the podcast. I think it's how many is it's a couple dozen young kids something like that, under twenty under twenty are suing the federal government saying that the government has a obligation to deal with climate change and that they're neglecting that obligation. As you recall from last week, the Supreme Court put this lawsuit on hold. Within the last few days, the lawsuit is back on It is now moving forward, although the federal government is trying to
get it thrown out. We will see what happens with that. So that's the end of the quiz. It looks like the score is mcguil two, Allington won, oh Man best of five. Sorry, that's well, we will have both of these Fellows back on the quiz later on to defend their challenge. And we may actually have a tournament of champions where you go up against Abby. Well, we'll see, I can see you're You're already very terrified here. The look on your faces was one of sheer terror. Congratulations
to Bobby Anti, Congratulations to Adam. And that's our news quiz for this week. If you want to keep up with the news and maybe win the next Parts Pavilion quiz yourself, visit our website at News dot Bloomberg Environment dot com. That's news dot Bloomberg, Environment dot com. This episode of Parks Pavilion was produced by myself and Jessica Coombs. Our editor is Marissa Horn, and our audio engineer is Nicholas Anzalada. The music for Parkspavillion is a message by Jazzarre.
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