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Jun 18, 2015

Marketplace for Thursday, June 18, 2015

Airing on Thursday, June 18, 2015: If you had to grade our nation’s electricity infrastructure (that is, the power grid) what grade would you give it? One top engineering organization has handed down a D+.  That’s right; our system of power plants, poles and wires is aging and unreliable. As a part of our series “The Weak Link,” Marketplace sustainability desk reporter Scott Tong examines the power grid. Next: Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal talks to Stephanie Savage, the woman who brought the book “The Astronaut Wives Club” to ABC as a summer mini-series. You might remember Stephanie from her previous shows “Gossip Girl” and “The O.C.” 

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Airing on Thursday, June 18, 2015: If you had to grade our nation’s electricity infrastructure (that is, the power grid) what grade would you give it? One top engineering organization has handed down a D+.  That’s right; our system of power plants, poles and wires is aging and unreliable. As a part of our series “The Weak Link,” Marketplace sustainability desk reporter Scott Tong examines the power grid. Next: Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal talks to Stephanie Savage, the woman who brought the book “The Astronaut Wives Club” to ABC as a summer mini-series. You might remember Stephanie from her previous shows “Gossip Girl” and “The O.C.”