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Hydrogen has long been envisioned as the ideal clean energy source for society. Used as a fuel, it releases only water as it is burned. Thus, it could be a direct replacement for fossil fuels in applications where it is difficult to find viable clean alternatives. In fuel cells, hydrogen can be used to generate electricity. But hydrogen faces a major problem: where to obtain it.

Author Colm Toibin’s latest, 'The News From Dublin,' is his first story collection in more than a decade. The volume gathers nine stories set across Ireland, Spain, the United States, and beyond, tracing lives shaped by distance, memory, and the pull of home.

Congress is considering a bill that would establish an annual fee to be paid by owners of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid cars. The purpose is to have owners of these vehicles pay their fair share of the cost to repair roads.

(Airs 06/25/26 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Primaries were held this week in NY, we’ll take a look at two races receiving national attention with reaction from voters, we’ll talk to the head of a coalition about four bills in the legislature to make magic mushrooms legal, and we’ll go back in time to take a conversational ride down the Erie Canal.

(Airs 07/01/26 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Dr. Bruce Dearstyne, Editor and Author, about the new book Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change, published by SUNY Press. We'll talk about the birth of New York.

(Airs 06/24/26 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Brad Utter, Senior Historian and Curator of Science and Technological History at the New York State Museum, about his chapter on the Erie Canal in the new book Revolutionary New York, 250 Years of Social Change.

Novelist Francine Prose’s latest, 'Five Weeks in the Country,' turns a strange real-life literary episode into rich, darkly funny fiction. In the summer of 1857, Hans Christian Andersen arrives at Charles Dickens’ country home for what should have been a brief visit. Instead, he stays five excruciating weeks.

(Airs 07/15/26 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Mandi Zucker, Executive Director of End of Life Choices New York. We’ll talk about the new Medical Aid In Dying Law that’s set to go into effect in August.

Lithium is the key metal for electric vehicle and energy storage batteries. Viewed as a way to strengthen U.S. energy independence, there has been a growing rush for lithium across the country. By 2030, at least six new mining projects are projected to be underway and another 13 will soon follow, mostly in the Southwest. There are more than 100 U.S. projects to which companies have staked claims. Worldwide, there are over 500 proposed lithium mines as the need for batteries skyrockets.

(Airs 07/16/26 @ 3 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: we’ll have reaction from supporters and opponents of the first-in-the-nation data center moratorium in NY, we’ll provide an update on the new Medical Aid in Dying Law set to take effect in august, and we’ll travel to the North Country to talk about the bobsled.