Green News Report w/ Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen
Summary: Six minutes of nationally-syndicated independent green news, politics, analysis and snarky comment!
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Podcasts:
Death toll continues to rise as California wildfires rage on; State officials grapple with preparing for tomorrow's disasters; Climate change may impact male fertility; Regional EPA official indicted on corruption charges; PLUS: New Democrats push old guard to take bold action on climate change...
Northern California's record-breaking Camp Fire now the most destructive, and the most deadly, in state history; State investigating utilities' role in sparking latest round of deadly wildfires; Kids' landmark climate lawsuit against the federal government placed on hold, again; PLUS: Judge halts all work on controversial Keystone XL pipeline...
GNR Special Coverage -- Big wins and losses for the environment in the 2018 midterm elections; Science to return to the U.S. House Science Committee; PLUS: Big Oil's big money overwhelms state energy ballot initiatives...
U.S. Supreme Court allows kids' landmark climate trial to proceed; New study finds 90 percent of world's children breathe highly polluted air; Plastic pollution is everywhere -- now even in human waste; PLUS: The World Bank finally ditches coal -- because renewables are cheaper...
DOJ investigating Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke; New study finds even more buildup of heat in the oceans, thanks to global warming; G.M. calls for a national electric vehicle sales mandate; PLUS: Teen climate activist in Sweden launches a kids' strike to combat climate change...
Brazil's election of extreme far-right Jair Bolsonaro has grave implications for the Amazon rainforest and climate change; PLUS: Energy and the environment are on the Nov. 6 ballot, with landmark ballot propositions in several states...
Category 5 SuperTyphoon Yutu slams into Mariana Islands and other U.S. territories; 2018 hurricane season now the most powerful ever recorded; New York sues ExxonMobil for defrauding investors about climate change; U.S. Supreme Court stays landmark kids' climate liability lawsuit; PLUS: Canada places a price on pollution with a national carbon tax...
Mexico braces for powerful Hurricane Willa -- and so does Central Texas; September 2018 was the fourth hottest September ever recorded; PLUS: Climate change and clean energy are on the ballot in the November midterms -- and even in the debates...
Extreme rainfall events trigger deadly flash flooding in Texas and France; Death toll still rising after Hurricane Michael; Yep, global warming is coming for your beer; PLUS: In Texas debate for U.S. Senate, Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz are asked about climate change -- yes, climate change!...
Large swaths of the Florida Panhandle still awaiting help after catastrophic Hurricane Michael; Michael was the fourth 'major' hurricane to make U.S. landfall in the past 15 months; PLUS: Despite Michael's record-breaking destruction, Republicans are still denying the science and economic impacts of climate change...
The world's scientists issue alarming report warning we are almost out of time to prevent worst impacts of global warming, but there's still time to act; PLUS: Florida, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas brace for Hurricane Michael...
Big oil is a big winner in Trump's new NAFTA trade deal; The Pacific has two simultaneous Category 5 storms for the first time in years; First-ever container ship crosses the Arctic as sea ice hits a new low; PLUS: Tesla's Big Battery in South Australia succeeding beyond all expectations...
Hurricane Florence clocked in as the second wettest storm in US history; North Carolina now grappling with outbreak of giant mosquitoes; Trump Administration using catastrophic climate change to justify rolling back fuel efficiency standards; PLUS: French president calls on UN to reject trade deals with any country not in the Paris Climate Agreement...
The impacts of Hurricane Florence ain't over yet, with new evacuations underway; As predicted, Florence flooding spills toxic coal ash waste in North Carolina; National TV media failed to connect the dots between Florence's impacts and climate change; PLUS: Endangered species and more hang in the balance as Republicans rush to get their nominee onto the U.S. Supreme Court...
Hurricane Florence floodwaters pose a toxic public health threat; North Carolina begins facing the long road of recovery; PLUS: Trump Interior Department formally rolls back still more methane regulations...