Weather Channel airing second installment in ‘Race to Save the Planet’ series

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The Weather Channel is bringing back its “2020: Race to Save the Planet” special with an installment focused on what it calls “environmental justice.”

The next edition airs Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020 at 8 p.m. easter.

Hosted by The Weather Channel meteorologists Stephanie Abrams and Paul Goodloe, the second installment of the program will feature one-on-one interviews with Senator Amy Klobuchar, former Representative Bob Inglis, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, Andrew Yang, and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro.

Other experts featured are Robert Bullard, one of the first activists to raise awareness about climate change impacts on communities of color; Mustafa Santiago Ali, vice president of environmental justice, climate, and community revitalization at the National Advocacy Center; Marshall Shepherd, director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Georgia; Rev. Gerald Durley, a climate change and environmental justice advocate; Neil Debbage, assistant professor of geography and environmental sustainability at the University of Texas San Antonio and former NFL player turned environmental activist Ovie Mughelli.