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WNRN Wake-Up Call: Oil & Offshore Drilling

On the August 22 edition of the Wake-Up Call, Rick talks with Deborah Murray (senior attorney of Southern Environmental Law Center) and Marirose Pratt (associate attorney of SELC) about the oil spill, offshore drilling, and concerns about it. The SELC has offices in Charlottesville, as well as areas of the country affected by the oil spill. One of the main concerns of the SELC is that BP has violated the Endangered Species Act by not treating the endangered effected by the spill properly. In Virginia , offshore drilling has been postponed.

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Wake-Up Call: Politics Roundtable

On the July 27th edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call on WNRN, Sean McCord, Joe Crisp and UVA adjunct professor Pete Ronanye were Rick Moore’s guests for a round table discussion on politics. Some of the issues discussed were the Presidential race, the Iraq War, the reasons for rising gas prices, whether offshore drilling will alleviate the problem, Senator Obama’s visit to Iraq and methods of campaigning. For details, listen to the podcast and express your opinion by commenting after the show!