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By Desi Doyen on 5/13/2010 12:52pm PT  


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Climate bill finally drops in the Senate --- but can it pass?; UK eyes offshore energy development as well (but goes for wind, not oil!) ... PLUS: Blame Game Round Robin as the BP "Oilpocalypse" continues on record pace and hopes hang on a "top hat"... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Oil Spill Hinders Space Shuttle Fuel Tank Delivery; Will ban on Gulf fishing help out fish?; Solar can provide 22 percent world's power by 2050: IEA; Venezuela Offshore Rig Sinks; Exxon CEO Whines About Push To Cut Big Oil’s Subsidies; Bisphenol A's 'twin' may have more potent hormone effects; N.M. Salt Beds Could Become Nation's Nuclear Dump ... PLUS: For Summer Sentinels, a Firefly Count ...

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By Desi Doyen on 5/11/2010 1:20pm PT  


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Another string of deadly tornadoes hits the Plains; Another deadly coal mine explosion; Another toxic toy recall ... PLUS: The Blame Game begins on Capitol Hill as oil industry executives blame each other, and BP runs out of ideas ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': LA Times: Climate change is the true crisis; Ash cloud closes Spanish airports; Romaine lettuce recall expands; China issues strict rules to meet emissions targets; Univ. of Va. "exploring options" on Cuccinelli climate change subpoena; Climate scientists decry 'political assaults'; Report: Climate change could render much of world uninhabitable ...PLUS: Earth may be too hot for humans by 2300: study...

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By Desi Doyen on 5/6/2010 1:25pm PT  


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The latest on the BP oil disaster in the Gulf - one leak contained, another dome in position; Other things happening that aren't in the Gulf (solar panels on paper, anyone?) ... PLUS: Playing politics with disaster in the Gulf (who could have foreseen it?!) ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Saudi-funded Fox News rejects ad by veterans group arguing against Middle East oil dependence; Obama EPA delays coal ash regulations; Factory farms take federal money but refuse to disclose pollution; EPA staffers say they were forced to ignore science; More bad news: Another mining death in W.Va. ...PLUS: Cancer panel: 'Grievous harm' posed by unchecked chemicals in U.S. ...

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By Desi Doyen on 5/4/2010 1:16pm PT  


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink --- in Boston and Nashville; MORE deadly storms kill 29 across the South ... PLUS: Slow-motion ecological and economic disaster in the Gulf goes from bad to worse, and where are the calls for clean energy legislation?! ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Clorox says it owns the 'Daisy'; VA Attorney General targets climate scientist; Massey Energy CEO got $2 mil. bonus for 'safety' even as mines amassed record violations; PG&E tactics called 'deceptive' in Prop 16 battle; Senator will filibuster climate bill over drilling; Ireland's airspace closed due to Iceland's still-erupting volcano ... PLUS: Corporate Media's Role in Environmental Denialism ...

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By Desi Doyen on 4/29/2010 11:28am PT  


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: More on Lindsey Graham's climate legislation hissy fit; A rapper's astute analysis of the climate bill ... PLUS: As the Gulf's oil rig spill spreads, setting the ocean on fire --- not kidding! ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Protected Reef Offers Model for Conservation; Food manufacturers fight ban on BPA in food safety bill; EPA issues new climate report on U.S. impacts; EPA: Atlantic seaboard will be swallowed by rising seas; Offshore power plant harvests both Wind and Waves; Energy crisis in Pakistan hurts everyday citizens; Locust plague prompts fears for crops ... PLUS: Your Killer Blue Jeans: Denim manufacturing is poisoning China's famed Pearl River ...

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By Desi Doyen on 4/27/2010 12:20pm PT  


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Remembering lives lost to coal; South hit by tornadoes and oil spills ... PLUS: Lindsey Graham's bizarre Senatorial hissy fit and how it could well scuttle comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Swappable car batteries debut in Tokyo taxis; Scientists uncover deep ocean current near Antarctica; Report: new nuclear reactor less safe than America's current fleet; Report questions viability of Carbon Capture and Storage; Which parts of the Atlantic seaboard will be swallowed by rising seas?; Toxic soil found in LA neighborhood ... PLUS: Fact Check: Buying carbon offsets may ease eco-guilt but not global warming ...

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EARTH DAY 40th Anniversary Edition!
By Desi Doyen on 4/22/2010 12:28pm PT  


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Oil rigs exploding; Volcanoes erupting; Senate Climate Legislation coming --- soon ... PLUS: On the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, a look back at the very first one... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Green reasons to 'Move Your Money': Big Banks and King Coal; Morales slams capitalism at People's World Conference on Climate Change; Dead whale found with gallons of human garbage in gut; Cash for appliances program starts TODAY!; Everest expedition to clean World's Highest Garbage Dump; UK University Ordered to Give Data to Climate Skeptic; USDA downplays own scientist’s research on ill effects of Monsanto herbicide ... PLUS: A 'real life' AVATAR: Director James Cameron allies with indigenous tribes to save Amazon rainforest from dam project ...

LATE UPDATE: Burning oil rig sinks in Gulf of Mexico....

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By Desi Doyen on 4/20/2010 1:01pm PT  


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Rescue & recovery in China; More fallout for the coal industry ... PLUS: Eruption Disruption: It's not just travel that's a pain in the ash, thanks to Eyjafjallajokull ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Another Good Reason to Cut Oil Use; Hard science vindicates climate scientists; EPA, Energy Dept. announce Energy Star revamp; Saudis tighten China energy ties; Tea Partiers far less informed about climate change than general public; Tweeting uses less juice than Googling; Seattle to lead LED street light study ... PLUS: Yummy: USDA says meat supply routinely tainted with harmful residues ...

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With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen...
By Desi Doyen on 4/15/2010 1:01pm PT  


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The First Lady goes to Haiti; Earthquake in Tibet; Volcano in Iceland; Climate scientists cleared of wrongdoing --- AGAIN ... PLUS: A War on Coal? Coal industry in the hot seat on Capitol Hill... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Biotech crops create pesticide-resistant weeds; March 2010 hottest on record; US South could save billions with energy conservation; FDA to study popular sanitizer ingredient triclosan; EU satellite to check climate impact on ice; Last US sardine cans being packed in Maine; GAO again faults interior for royalty collection efforts; Europe generates electricity from trash, U.S. lags ... PLUS: Offshore Drilling: How much oil really is off the Atlantic Coast? ...

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By Desi Doyen on 4/13/2010 1:24pm PT  


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Are we gonna need a new name for Glacier National Park?; The Great Barrier Reef, endangered by shipping shortcuts ... PLUS: The history of safety violations in America's mines, and accountability for the mining industry's most powerful men, like Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Most TX natural gas facilities release toxic pollution; U.S. Wind Industry Bullish on Offshore Potential; Who's in charge with geoengineering?; Flawed ballot proposition threatens CA's global warming law; Leaked: Obama's hardline US climate talk strategy; Judge awards damages in toxic Chinese drywall lawsuit ... PLUS: You Want Chicken Poop With That Steak? Why FDA Should Ban Feces From Feed ...

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By Desi Doyen on 4/8/2010 1:10pm PT  


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: A setback in the search for missing WV miners; Massey Mine Explosion: Who is to blame? ... PLUS: Record snow, record landslides, record rain, record heat & predictable silence from the Global Warming Denialist Industry ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': A Modest Proposal for hacking the planet; CO law to require uranium mining cleanup; Study says U.S. waterways are warming; Pipeline leaks oil into Louisiana wildlife refuge; Global Warming's Big Winners: fire ants, poison ivy, ticks; Fox News Tries to Re-Ignite Attacks on Exonerated Climate Scientist; Melbourne smashes record for run of warm days; Race to introduce GM corn before Africa's climate worsens ... PLUS: Oil and Gas Industry Launches Ad Campaign to Target 'Energy Industry Taxes' ...

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By Desi Doyen on 4/6/2010 1:39pm PT  


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Welcome aboard to our latest new affiliate partner: Rational Broadcasting in Dallas!

IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Another mining tragedy in Coal Country and the unspeakable failures of Massey Energy's CEO Don Blankenship; Oil spill on the Great Barrier Reef... PLUS: ExxonMobil paid zero in federal taxes on their $45 billion profit last year!...All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': U.N. chief shocked by dying lake, once 4th largest in world; Severe drought devastates farmers; 'Smart meter' investigations in Texas, California; BP fights to limit controls on shale gas drilling; Obama's recess appointments include pesticide-pushing trade rep; Wisconsin bans phosphorus in lawn fertilizer; U.S. Refineries have world's worst safety record ... PLUS: Koch Industries outspends Exxon Mobil on climate denial groups ...

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A long-overdue indictment of the unabated, GOP-created, media-enabled, incalculably-damaging 'unmooring of politics from facts'...
By Brad Friedman on 4/5/2010 8:05am PT  

On Friday night, responding to the CA AG's finding that the ACORN "Pimp" Hoax videos --- as created and published by righwing con-artists James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Andrew Breitbart --- were precisely the hoax we'd long described them as, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow hit it out of the park, detailing precisely the reason we've been focused on this point for so long: "The triumph of fake politics...The unmooring of politics from facts," and the unforgivable truth that you've heard far more about the partisan-driven hoax/politics agenda in the media, than about the fact that that these things were all hoaxes.

Maddow takes the opportunity to highlight not only the "triumph" of the ACORN "Pimp" Hoax, but of other successful GOP-played/MSM-enabled scams such as "ClimateGate" (also near and dear to our hearts as we've covered that scam in great depth in our Green News Reports for months, most recently on Thursday), faked GOP outrage about recess appointments, health insurance reform, Miranda rights and civilian trials for accused terrorists, the stimulus bill, "death panels," Obama's birth certificate, supposed threats to the Second Amendment, armed IRS agents coming to get you, abuse of the census, Obama's "plans" to ban sport fishing, et al.

These things are, as she declares in no uncertain terms, "all bull." Yet, she adds, "there’s more bang for the political buck to make stuff up like this than to try to debate real problems in the real world. So just go with the bull"...


Our only complaint is that her indictment comes a month or two (at least) too late for victims of the GOP's ACORN scam, and that, other than Fox "News," she fails to call out the still-respected-but-shouldn't-be enablers of the scams in the first place --- in this case, for example, the still-misreporting New York Times.

If you can't watch the video above, or would just like to savor it and/or quote any of the exceedingly-quotable text to your erstwhile inexorably-brainwashed, fully-hoaxed, teabagging wingnut friends and family members, the text transcript is posted here...




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Not April Foolin' Edition!
By Desi Doyen on 4/1/2010 1:45pm PT  


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Another record storm for the Northeast; Another climate scientist exonerated and another phony "ClimateGate"... PLUS: It's no April Fool's: Obama opens up offshore drilling ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': U.S. solar startup already sold out; The death of another proposed coal-fired power plant?; EPA blocks Texas from easing Clean Air Act scrutiny; BIG jump in clean tech venture capital funding; Natural gas drilling upends landowners' lives, property; 12 dead in 2nd China mine accident in a week; Solving global warming in 7 paragraphs; McDonald's food won't decompose? ... PLUS: Looking Ahead: ‘Britain’s Appalachia’ engineers a brighter post-coal future ...

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By Desi Doyen on 3/30/2010 1:10pm PT  


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: China beats the U.S. --- again; EPA vetoes mountaintop removal permit for first time; Rightwing's (very mature) response to Earth Hour; Trapped coal miners in China; WV Chamber of Commerce fights against coal miner disability payments... PLUS: Sarah Palin recycles! (2008, that is) ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': IPCC head cleared of financial wrongdoing; Convictions in Rio Tinto mining bribery case; Mandatory solar power building codes for India; Mysterious whale die-off is largest on record; Emission Control Area created around U.S. and Canadian; EPA to crack down on toxic chemicals in water; Oil giant Koch Industries funds climate change deniers ... PLUS: News Flash: WMO says world still getting hotter ...

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