Cullen Hoback’s investigative documentary “What Lies Upstream,” which premiered on Inauguration Day at the Slamdance Film Festival, couldn’t be more timely. The detective story takes a look at the largest chemical drinking water contamination in a generation and the failed regulatory framework that created a loss of clean water for hundreds of thousands of Americans.
But while the drinking water element is important, the film goes further and investigates the alarming implications for the future of science and reason in America under Donald Trump. A clip from the doc shows how Trump has appointed Myron Ebell, a top climate skeptic and lobbyist who made his fortune from ExxonMobil, Dow Chemical and the tobacco industry, to shape the entire future of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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But while the drinking water element is important, the film goes further and investigates the alarming implications for the future of science and reason in America under Donald Trump. A clip from the doc shows how Trump has appointed Myron Ebell, a top climate skeptic and lobbyist who made his fortune from ExxonMobil, Dow Chemical and the tobacco industry, to shape the entire future of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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With “What Lies Upstream,” Hoback hopes to show the...
- 1/21/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
A new Nova special about the Flint water crisis, “Troubled Waters,” deals with impact that “environmental criminals” had in worsening the crisis, a panelist at the Television Critics Association press tour said on Monday. “At it’s core, this is a story of science and ethics,” civil engineering professor Marc Edwards said. “It’s about how the environmental policemen that we pay to protect us — civil servants, scientists and engineers — turned into environmental criminals.” He continued: “If you look at the emails we obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request, the officials did the right thing and reached out to the.
- 1/16/2017
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Mark Ruffalo is all wet with his opinions on the Flint, Michigan, water supply. At least, that’s the claim made by Marc Edwards, the Virginia Tech professor and environmental engineer who helped uncover high levels of lead in drinking water deriving from the Flint River. In a scathing post on the Flint Water Study website, Edwards took aim at Ruffalo, after the “Avengers” star suggested that it’s dangerous to bathe and shower in water from the city’s municipal supply. Lest anybody be confused about his stance on the matter, Edwards titled the post, “A-List Actor But F-List...
- 5/16/2016
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
A Michigan judge has authorized criminal charges against one city official and two state officials in connection with the lead contamination of Flint's water. The office of Michigan's attorney general announced Wednesday they were pressing charges on two Michigan Department of Environmental Quality officials and a local water treatment plant supervisor in conjunction with the crisis. Michael Prysby, a Deq district engineer, and Stephen Busch, a supervisor with the Deq's Office of Drinking Water, were both charged with misconduct in office, conspiracy to tamper with evidence, tampering with evidence and violations of water treatment and monitoring laws. Flint utilities administrator...
- 4/20/2016
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- PEOPLE.com
Long before the rest of the country learned about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, a few people - including two outraged moms, a professor, a water expert and a doctor - took matters into their own hands. LeeAnne WaltersIn September 2014, just five months after the water supply in Flint, Michigan, was switched from the Detroit River to the Flint River, LeeAnne Walters began to notice that something was off. Her hair was getting thin, her blood pressure was fluctuating, her children were breaking out in rashes and they even had trouble walking up steps. But it wasn't until December...
- 1/27/2016
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
Long before the rest of the country learned about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, a few people - including two outraged moms, a professor, a water expert and a doctor - took matters into their own hands. LeeAnne WaltersIn September 2014, just five months after the water supply in Flint, Michigan, was switched from the Detroit River to the Flint River, LeeAnne Walters began to notice that something was off. Her hair was getting thin, her blood pressure was fluctuating, her children were breaking out in rashes and they even had trouble walking up steps. But it wasn't until December...
- 1/27/2016
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
1. William Parker: For Those Who Are, Still (Aum Fidelity/Centering)
I have been an admirer and observer of William Parker for a quarter century, but nothing prepared me for the impact of this three-disc set's final CD, which features an orchestral composition, Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still, which ranks high among the best orchestral music of the 21st century, and I'm including classical composers. In other words, don't cringe while imagining the usual jazz-with-strings hack job. There are moments in Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still -- particularly when the choir is singing Parker's poems of life and loss and creation -- when the grandeur of the year's most fashionable jazz album, Kamasi Washington's The Epic (also a three-cd set) comes to mind, but the difference -- the reason Parker's set ranks much higher -- is that his orchestrations are vastly more contrapuntal, colorful, individual, and just plain daring.
I have been an admirer and observer of William Parker for a quarter century, but nothing prepared me for the impact of this three-disc set's final CD, which features an orchestral composition, Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still, which ranks high among the best orchestral music of the 21st century, and I'm including classical composers. In other words, don't cringe while imagining the usual jazz-with-strings hack job. There are moments in Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still -- particularly when the choir is singing Parker's poems of life and loss and creation -- when the grandeur of the year's most fashionable jazz album, Kamasi Washington's The Epic (also a three-cd set) comes to mind, but the difference -- the reason Parker's set ranks much higher -- is that his orchestrations are vastly more contrapuntal, colorful, individual, and just plain daring.
- 1/3/2016
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
I have already discussed seven new releases and one compilation in my article on the Jazz Artist of the Year, Matthew Shipp. Here are my other favorite new albums from the jazz world in 2013. Most surprising for me is the number of vocal albums, because I'm very particular about jazz singers and dislike most of them. So coming from me, the praise for the jazz singers listed here is really saying something.
1. Andy Bey: The World According to Andy Bey (High Note)
Andy Bey is my favorite living jazz singer, and he's not recorded nearly as often as his talents deserve. Now 74 years old, he has only recorded 11 albums in the course of a 50-year career (one a concert album I've never actually seen). In comparison, Kurt Elling, 46 and active for 18 years, has already made 10. It had been six years since Bey's previous album, and he's been living HIV-positive since 1994, so I was worried.
1. Andy Bey: The World According to Andy Bey (High Note)
Andy Bey is my favorite living jazz singer, and he's not recorded nearly as often as his talents deserve. Now 74 years old, he has only recorded 11 albums in the course of a 50-year career (one a concert album I've never actually seen). In comparison, Kurt Elling, 46 and active for 18 years, has already made 10. It had been six years since Bey's previous album, and he's been living HIV-positive since 1994, so I was worried.
- 1/15/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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