This week:

• Adria Vasil, author of the book Ecoholic and environmental news columnist for NOW magazine, speaks with Shak Haq, Jordan Poppenk and Kevin Farmer about her column and new book in a special two-part interview.
• Jordan Poppenk speaks with Rymal Smith, Manager of the Hydrogen Village Program, about the ecology of hydrogen as an energy storage medium for powering our vehicles.

The headlines in brief:

• Energy Alberta Corp., a private company working with Atomic Energy of Canada, has proposed a new nuclear power plant for service in the Alberta oil sands;
• Environment Canada will not pursue a full environmental assessment on a large proposed oil refinery expansion in Saint John, N.B;
• Environment Minister John Baird’s office has suffered another embarrassing leak;
• Senior Environment Canada Climatologist David Phillips has predicted a summer of warmer, drier, smoggier and more violent weather for most of Canada;
• A coalition of more than 90 U.S. environmental organizations known as Healing Our Waters is calling for a ban of ocean-going tankers from entering the Great Lakes;
• A study published in the journal Science warns that the ocean around Antarctica may not be able to absorb much more carbon.
• Cancer has become the number one cause of death in China, and the country’s ministry of health says that pollution is to blame.
• A new study suggests that warm sea surface temperatures were not the main cause of intense hurricane seasons in the past.
• A former administrator from the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History claims that the Institution toned down an exhibit about climate change for fear of angering the Bush administration.

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