NOW with Bill Moyers
Friday, September 19, 2003 at 9PM on PBS
(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html)

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This week on NOW:

* Critics say she gutted key environmental protections.  What's the real
story?  Former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman in her own words.  CLEARING
THE AIR.
* After 30 years of working to protect the environment, he only thought
he'd seen it all.  National Environmental Trust president Philip Clapp sits
down with Bill Moyers.
* NPR's Deborah Amos talks to author and activist Walter Mosley about
fiction, money and politics.
* A Bill Moyers Journal.

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CLEARING THE AIR

Christine Todd Whitman arrived in Washington to head up the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) with commendable credentials as a former governor of
New Jersey who supported pro-environmental policies. So why was she
criticized for overseeing a period rife with the wholesale gutting of key
environmental protections by the Bush Administration?   In May, barely two
years into the job, she resigned. NOW examines the new priorities at the
EPA, where, critics say, environmental protection takes a back seat to
politics, and Whitman gives NOW a first-hand account of the controversies
that dogged her tenure.

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PHILIP CLAPP

As President of the National Environmental Trust, it's Philip Clapp's job
to inform the public about environmental problems and how they affect our
health and quality of life. After working on energy and environmental issues
in Washington since the 1970s, he's got some tough words about the current
U.S. strategy.  Clapp talks to Bill Moyers about how our national
environmental policy may affect our international relations, his concerns
about how ties to the oil and nuclear industries have directed that policy,
and the politics behind the new energy bill.  "What is really at stake here
is 30 years of environmental protection that they're backing up on," says
Clapp, "I have never seen an administration so politicize agencies.  Muzzle
scientists, skew data and, frankly, lie to the American public about
critical public health issues."

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NOW WITH BILL MOYERS continues online at PBS.org (www.pbs.org/now).  Log
on to the site for information on the Clean Skies initiative; for the
history of key environmental legislation; for more from Deb Amos'
conversation with Walter Mosley; for a complete bibliography of Walter
Mosley's works; for resources to checking local air and water quality; for a
primer on World War I; and more.

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