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b'Carolyn Harding with Randi Pokladnik and Dustin White, both working to raise awareness and build coalitions to fight the huge plastics petrochemical hub build-up along the Ohio River, euphemistically referred as the #AppalachianStorageHub.\\n\\nRandi Pokladnik was born and raised in the Ohio Valley in Toronto Ohio, a small town just north of Steubenville Ohio. She has degrees in Environmental engineering, chemistry, and a masters and doctorate degrees in Environmental studies. She is a retired research chemist and educator. She writes and volunteers for Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition. Her main concerns are clean air, water and climate change and getting plastics and toxic chemicals out of our lives.\\n\\nDustin White, a project coordinator with the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (or OVEC) which is headquartered in Huntington WV. Dustin grew up in Southern WV\\u2019s \\u201ccoal fields\\u201d and has roots to the area going back 11 generations. He began his work with OVEC as a volunteer and later on staff fighting Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. In 2014, he worked to get emergency relief to communities impacted by the WV Water Crisis when the petrochemical company, MCHM burst from its holding tank above the public water intake in Charleston, WV, leaving 300,000 residents in 9 counties without water for weeks. \\n\\nNow, he works on what is the newest threat to Appalachia\\u2019s health, safety, and vitality \\xad\\u2013 a proposed petrochemical mega-complex, known as the Appalachian Storage and Trading Hub, in the upper Ohio River Valley, that would impact air quality and threaten the drinking water of over 5 million people all for the primary purpose of manufacturing new single use plastics. \\n\\nhttps://ohvec.org/\\n\\nhttp://www.peopleoverpetro.org/\\n\\nGrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio!\\n\\nEvery Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org\\n\\nCheck us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/\\n\\nAll shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753'