Putting Out the Planetary Fire

Putting Out the Planetary Fire

Mark A Dunlea

Episodes 177
Avg. Duration 9m
Activity Dormant
Since Jun 2023
Latest Episode Jan 2026

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Hourly
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Episodic
Consistency
6%
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About This Podcast

Climate change. The podcast will feature climate action, highlighting some of the key climate struggles. It is produced by the Green Education and Legal Fund. Putting Out the Planetary Fire is the organizing handbook from GELF that provides background information on climate issues along with a how-to-guide on climate advocacy.

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Recent Episodes

S2025 NY Barriers to Lead Pipe Replacement

Jan 01, 2026 10m

Environmental Advocates NY and the Environmental Policy Innovation Center released a new report today about New York’s ongoing efforts to remove harmful lead service lines. The report recommends more…

S2025 Judge Rules that NYS Has Illegally Delayed Climate Law

Jan 01, 2026 9m

A New York State judge has ruled that the State is violating its climate law (CLCPA) and it can not delay just because it is complicated. Citizen Action, PUSH Buffalo, Sierra Club, and We ACT sued…

S2025 Hochul Reverses Position on Cryptomining Gas Plant

Jan 01, 2026 9m

On Friday, Nov. 7, Gov. Hochul announced her approval of a 17-mile underwater natural gas pipeline near New York City and an agreement that allows Greenidge Generation to continue using fracked gas…

S2025 FWW Criticizes Hochul on NESE Pipeline Approval

Jan 01, 2026 9m

On Friday November 7, Governor Hochul made two critical decisions that appalled climate activists: approving the NESE (Northeast Supply Enhancement Extension) fracked gas pipeline under the NYC…

S2025 Earth Justice on Hochul’s Delay of All Electric Buildings

Jan 01, 2026 9m

Governor Hochul capped off a week of startling reversals on climate action by agreeing to delay the start of the All-Electric Buildings Act. The law requires all new buildings of six stories or less…

S2025 FFF Pushes Non Fossil Fuel Treaty, Slams Hochul on Climate

Dec 30, 2025 13m

Friday, November 14, was another Global Climate Strike by Fridays For Future, the international student climate group started by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. Earlier in the week, the 30th COP…

S2025 Rewiring America on Hochul's Retreat on All Electric Buildings Act

Dec 30, 2025 9m

The Hochul administration, in a lawsuit that the state had already won, surprisingly agreed to postpone the January 2026 start date for the All Electric Buildings Act, which bans fossil fuels in new…

S2025 Building Codes Council and All Electric Buildings Act

Dec 30, 2025 9m

Clean energy advocates held a press conference ahead of the Building Code Council meeting on December 5th to uplift the affordability benefits of the All-Electric Buildings Law (AEBL). Last summer,…

S2025 NY Renews 10th Anniversary

Dec 30, 2025 9m

NY Renews is a coalition of nearly 400 climate, labor, youth, and community groups, and was the major group that pushed for the adoption of the CLCPA, the state’s climate law, in 2019. They adocate…

S2025 Rally Urging Hochul to Sign Repeal of 100 foot Rule for Gas

Dec 30, 2025 19m

More than 100 climate activists came to the State Capitol on Thursday December 11 to urge Governor Hochul to sign legislation that would end the estimated six hundred million of dollars that has been…

S2025 NY Public Power Coalition On Why NY Energy Plan Violates Climate law

Dec 30, 2025 9m

On Tuesday December 16, the Hochul administration approved an update to the state energy plan which embraced an All-of-the-Above energy policy including fossil fuels and nuclear power. Many climate…

S2025 Climate Special End of the Year

Dec 30, 2025 58m

This show includes five climate related segments from the past year from my segments on Hudson Mohawk Magazine. 2025 was a bad year for climate action in both New York and the United States. At the…

S2024 Break the Bonds Rally Urges DiNapoli to Divest from Israel

Oct 16, 2025 22m

On Thursday, October 16, the Break the Bonds NYS campaign held a rally in Albany, marching from the Capitol to NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s office. The "Break the Bonds" campaign wants the New…

S2025 No Kings Rally Albany Sat Oct 18

Oct 15, 2025 9m

At 12:00 Noon on Saturday, October 18, the people of the Capital Region will gather on Western Avenue between Fuller and Manning Boulevard for a nonviolent demonstration and march in collective…

S2025 NYS Senate Roundtable on Climate Law Implementation

Oct 09, 2025 9m

On Friday September 26, the state senate held a roundtable on the implementation of the state’s climate law, CLCPA, which is falling short of its mandated goals. We hear from Samantha Wilt of NRDC,…

S2025 Protest at Hochul's Nuclear Summit in Syracuse

Oct 09, 2025 9m

On Tuesday, September 30, a People’s Meeting was organized outside of Governor Hochul’s nuclear summit in Syracuse by Onondaga Nation community members, the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force,…

S2025 How Paid Lobbyists Defeated Packaging Reduction Legislation

Oct 09, 2025 10m

On October 7, Beyond Plastics released a new report, “Follow the Money: The David vs. Goliath Battle to Pass the New York Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act.” Reports filed with the…

S2025 LON Wants NYS To Resolve Norlite Lawsuit

Oct 09, 2025 9m

On Oct. 9, Lights Out Norlite held a news conference in Cohoes, NY pointing out that there is still toxic dust being blown around from the Norlite plant despite the plant temporarily stopping the…

S2025 Hochul at State Fair Pushed on Nuclear, Pipelines

Sep 27, 2025 9m

When Governor Hochul attended Opening Day at the Great New York State Fair , Central New York residents, community leaders and environmentalists planned a press conference to demand the Governor…

S2025 Climate Groups Urge Hochul not to Approve Williams Pipeline for Trump

Sep 27, 2025 10m

On Wednesday September 3, more than 3 dozen climate activists held a news conference outside of the State Department of Environmental Conservation in downtown Albany to urge the Hochul administration…

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