In 19 sixties, the environmental movement is just getting kind of started. This is one of the very catalizing, i would say, events for the environmental movement. By the following year, the first earth day was observed by hundreds of thousands of americans. And liticians took note of the movement's growing power.
An energy expert explains why offshore oil spills keep happening and whether they’ll ever stop.
Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Cristian Ayala and Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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