Speaker 1: Are tiny power plants? The future of electricity? And is
Speaker 1: there a tiny amount of weed killer hiding in your breakfast?
Speaker 1: All that and more this week on Parts per Billion.
Speaker 1: Hello and welcome once again to Parts per Billion Bloomberg
Speaker 1: Environments Now weekly podcast. I'm your host, David Schultz, and
Speaker 1: you remember from last week that we're doing something new
Speaker 1: here on Parts for Billion. It's a weekly news quiz
Speaker 1: where we grill Bloomberg Environment's finest journalists to see how
Speaker 1: they're keeping up with what's going on in the world.
Speaker 1: Last week, Abby Smith beats Sylvia Cariden in a two
Speaker 1: to one nailbiter. This week we've got two new contestants,
Speaker 1: Adam Allentin and Bobby McGill. Thanks guys for joining us here.
Speaker 1: Thank you happy to do it. So let's get right
Speaker 1: into it. As always, these questions are based on environmental
Speaker 1: news from the past week. The winner of this quiz,
Speaker 1: of course, gets nothing but respect. The loser gets nothing
Speaker 1: but shame and humiliation. I should say before we start,
Speaker 1: we've actually if you recall last week, we had contestants
Speaker 1: raising their hands when they wanted to answer a question.
Speaker 1: This week, we've solved that problem and we have a
Speaker 1: bell so, Adam, if you could demonstrate the sound that
Speaker 1: listeners will be hearing there. It is so if someone
Speaker 1: thinks they know the answer, you will hear that sound
Speaker 1: of a bell which I just purchased in Crystal City
Speaker 1: this morning. Lovely Crystal City. And it is an actual bell.
Speaker 1: The listener, Yes, this is not it's not like the
Speaker 1: kind of thing you ring in on at the front
Speaker 1: desk of a hotel. For some reason, you decided to
Speaker 1: get an actual bell. Yes, well, you know the store.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of options because you know, there's
Speaker 1: shopping mecha of Crystal City, Virginia. But yeah, this is
Speaker 1: not an app. This is not a digitally created sound.
Speaker 1: It's the real thing. This is the real thing, totally analog.
Speaker 1: Enough stalling, let's get to the questions. Question number one,
Speaker 1: the Energy Department says the future of coal will be
Speaker 1: providing fuel to power plants that share this common attribute. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is Bobby, and Bobby is reaching for the bell.
Speaker 1: Didn't really tiny power plants, that's right, And that was
Speaker 1: a relatively easy question because I mentioned that at the
Speaker 1: top of the show, tiny power plants. According to our
Speaker 1: colleague Rebecca Kern, the Energy Department thinks that coal is
Speaker 1: best suited to fuel tiny modular power plants that can
Speaker 1: be turned on and off, and also maybe able to
Speaker 1: better utilize clean coal technology if such a thing exists.
Speaker 1: Some people say it doesn't tiny power plants the future
Speaker 1: of coal. We'll see. That's what the Energy Department thinks.
Speaker 1: Question number two. Quaker Oats is being sued because it's
Speaker 1: cereals allegedly contained residues of this chemical. That would be
Speaker 1: Adam Allenton. Adam, would you like to get the point
Speaker 1: what is glyfas it? Alex? Thank you, My name is
Speaker 1: not Alex, but you are right about that. Glynphasate the
Speaker 1: chemical and round up the weed killer that is the
Speaker 1: most widely sold pesticide in the world. Apparently it is
Speaker 1: in Quaker Oats cereal. And there are people suing Quaker
Speaker 1: Oats saying you're you know, honey nut cheerios are not
Speaker 1: healthy despite your claims of healthfulness because they contain glycosate,
Speaker 1: we should say. Quaker Oats says this lawsuit is baseless
Speaker 1: and has no merit. The final question, we have a
Speaker 1: two to one to one tie. This is the question
Speaker 1: that will determine who wins this week. The final question
Speaker 1: here it is the Supreme Court is allowing this landmark
Speaker 1: climate Oh, we were already okay the question. The Supreme
Speaker 1: Court is allowing this land of our climate change trial
Speaker 1: to move forward. Bobby McGill, Juliana case children's Okay, Well
Speaker 1: I was going for children's kids, young people, youth or Juliana.
Speaker 1: I guess that would have worked as well. Yes, the
Speaker 1: this is a landmark climate change trial in which that
Speaker 1: we you were actually we talked about last week on
Speaker 1: the podcast. I think it's how many is it's a
Speaker 1: couple dozen young kids something like that, under twenty under
Speaker 1: twenty are suing the federal government saying that the government
Speaker 1: has a obligation to deal with climate change and that
Speaker 1: they're neglecting that obligation. As you recall from last week,
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court put this lawsuit on hold. Within the
Speaker 1: last few days, the lawsuit is back on It is
Speaker 1: now moving forward, although the federal government is trying to
Speaker 1: get it thrown out. We will see what happens with that.
Speaker 1: So that's the end of the quiz. It looks like
Speaker 1: the score is mcguil two, Allington won, oh Man best
Speaker 1: of five. Sorry, that's well, we will have both of
Speaker 1: these Fellows back on the quiz later on to defend
Speaker 1: their challenge. And we may actually have a tournament of
Speaker 1: champions where you go up against Abby. Well, we'll see,
Speaker 1: I can see you're You're already very terrified here. The
Speaker 1: look on your faces was one of sheer terror. Congratulations
Speaker 1: to Bobby Anti, Congratulations to Adam. And that's our news
Speaker 1: quiz for this week. If you want to keep up
Speaker 1: with the news and maybe win the next Parts Pavilion
Speaker 1: quiz yourself, visit our website at News dot Bloomberg Environment
Speaker 1: dot com. That's news dot Bloomberg, Environment dot com. This
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