Henry Raines Show 04/28/17 Part 1

Guest: The Suncoast Waterkeeper is Andy Mele, former Executive Director of a major Hudson River environmental group that was instrumental in forcing General Electric to remove 300,000 pounds of toxic PCBs from the Hudson. He is author of Polluting for Pleasure (W.W. Norton), the book that rendered the old two-stroke outboard motor all but extinct, keeping millions of gallons of oil and gasoline from American waterways every year. Andy has an MS in environmental science, Bard College. http://www.suncoastwaterkeeper.com/who_we_are

Andy discusses with Henry and Alan Cross the proposed Aqua By The Bay development in Cortez, FL by developer Carlos Beruff. Andy talks about the protest action, upcoming Manatee County Commission meeting on the subject and the impact of the project to Sarasota Bay's mangroves and environment.