Trump and the Environment

WYPR - 88.1 FM Baltimore | By Sheilah Kast,

Published November 16, 2016 at 2:48 PM EST

Donald Trump campaigned on promises to make it easier to drill for oil and burn coal. He pledged to leave only “tidbits” of the Environmental Protection Agency in place, and to pull the U.S. out of international climate treaties. “We’re going to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement," he said last May, "and stop all payments of U.S. tax dollars to U.N. global warming programs.” Today we hear from two University of Maryland experts: First, we talk with Robert Orr, head of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He’s also senior advisor to the United Nations on climate change. Then Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, joins us.

Sheilah Kast

Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am. Originally, she hostedWYPR's Dupont-Columbia University award-winning Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast from 2006 - October2015. She began her career at The Washington Star, where she covered the Maryland and Virginia legislatures, utilities, energy and taxes, as well as financial and banking regulation. She learned the craft of broadcasting at ABC News; as a Washington correspondent for fifteen years, she covered the White House, Congress, and the 1991 Moscow coup that signaled the end of the Soviet empire. Sheilahhas been a substitute host on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and The DianeRehmShow. She has launched and hosted two weekly interview shows on public TV, one about business and one about challenges facing older people.

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Andrea Appleton

Andrea Appleton is a producer for Midday. She comes to WYPR with years of experience as a freelance journalist filing stories for newspapers, magazines, and public radio. She has reported on topics ranging from bull riding to bionic fish, with an emphasis on science. She is also former senior editor of the Baltimore City Paper, and a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism.

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