Environmental Roundtable: Mass. residents inhaled polluted air for 50 days in 2020

Day twelve of the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. This is the 26th "Conference of the Parties" and represents a gathering of all the countries signed on to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Climate Agreement.

November 19, 2021

Updated August 07, 2023

Today on Under The Radar:

Breathe in… and out… Easy? Not so much for Massachusetts residents, who inhaled 50 days of polluted air in 2020. Plus, with fall foliage comes piles of dead leaves and the ubiquitous leaf-blowers — environmentally conscientious consumers may want to rethink their use. And, we’re zeroing in on important takeaways from the UN Climate Change Conference this month.

It’s our Environmental Roundtable!

GUESTS:
Beth Daley, editor and general manager of The Conversation, U.S.

Cabell Eames, political director of Better Future Project, a Massachusetts-based grassroots climate-action organization.

Dr. Aaron Bernstein, Interim director of The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital, and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.