Summary: LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE, AND RATE Every week, Indivisible Chicago Podcast host Tom Moss talks to politicians, newsmakers, academics and activists about resisting the Trump agenda. The ICP is also a great way to keep up with what’s happening in Indivisible Chicago. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or listen online at IndivisibleChicago.com/podcast. Take a minute to rate us on iTunes. It helps us get the word out about the ICP. https://apple.co/2oR4UlH INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES AND ACTIONS FOR JANUARY 28, 2019 Opening: Poet and professor Kirk Robinson and his family lived for a few years in Northwest Indiana in the shadow of the US Steel plant. He joins to talk about that experience as well as share some thoughts about surfing and the sea. Interview: It may surprise you to learn that there is a surf scene in Chicago. It may not be as much of a surprise that US Steel plants on the Indiana coast are threatening the health of surfers—and water drinkers—with dangerous chemicals they’ve allegedly dumped into the waterways. Mitch McNeil from the Surfrider Foundation of Chicago joins the podcast to talk Great Lakes surfing and the lawsuit his organization has brought against US Steel. Just after the interview, there was a development in the case. On December 13, 2018 the court granted Surfrider Foundation's request to become a party in the EPA and Indiana Department of Environmental Management's enforcement action against U. S. Steel, over the company's Clean Water Act violations including illegal discharges of hexavalent chromium into a waterway emptying into Lake Michigan. The Court declined to grant the governments' requests to (1) defer ruling on the Motion until after the public comment review process for the proposed Consent Decree, and (2) to place conditions on how Surfrider could participate as an intervenor. Learn about the case it unfolds at www.surfrider.org. [bit.ly/ICP_Surfrider.]
