RadioActive: November 1, 2017

Medicaid Waiver, Public Lands Master Plans, VW Money, Alt-Fuels, Abolish Nukes

Hosted by Lara Jones and Nick Burns, tonight's show featured:

Stacy Stanford, Utah Health Policy Project, with reaction to today's news of a Medicaid waiver
Championing ‘American energy dominance,’ feds to scrap master plans for leasing public lands, with Salt Lake Tribune reporter Brian Maffly
Utah's cut of VW settlement money is $35 million. Beginning today, Utah DEQ invites the public to comment on how the money should be spent. Lisa Burr explains
Tammie Bostock-Cooper of Utah Clean Cities on the 9th annual alternative fuel vehicle awareness month and related programs
Deb Sawyer and Gail Blattenberger of Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, needed now more than ever.

Resources:

Gov. Gary R. Herbert will announced a new UCAIR partnership to help homeowners replace old wood stoves with cleaner gas stoves. The program is voluntary, and is funded through private sponsorships. Click here to learn more.
With the air turning cold, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) reminds Utahns that wood burning restrictions go into effect today, November 1, 2017, and urges the use of online and mobile tools for better monitoring of daily air particulates.
- A phone app, UtahAir, that employs DAQ’s air quality alert system is now available for both Android and iOS users at http://www.airquality.utah.gov/aqp/currentconditions.php. App users will receive burn-ban alerts and three-day forecasts to help plan the best times to exercise outdoors, or when to make consolidated trip for errands based on current conditions.

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