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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump signs slew of executive orders to bail out the declining, polluting coal industry; Torrential rains and flooding cripple Congo's capital city; PLUS: Big banks quietly planning ways to maximize profits amid climate chaos... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Trump makes sweeping move to undercut state climate laws like California's; In the rain-soaked South, storms portend future ‘generational’ floods; White House ends funding for key US climate research body; US exits carbon talks on shipping, urges others to follow, document says; NOAA contracts being reviewed one by one, throwing the agency into chaos; Threatened carbon pipeline filed hundreds of lawsuits against landowners... PLUS: More oil and gas FAFO as crude keeps diving... and much, MUCH more! ...

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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump Administration omits climate change from the U.S. National Threat Assessment Report; EPA's rollback of landmark clean air and water rules will cause significant harm to public health; PLUS: U.S. Supreme Court closes the door on historic youth climate lawsuit... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): NIH ends future funding to study the health effects of climate change; Huge South Korea wildfires kill 27 and threaten to destroy ancient temples; Climate change is the backdrop to our lives, but it's missing in movies; Despite staff and budget cuts, NOAA issues critical drought warnings in its Spring Outlook; How Elon Musk’s layoffs are threatening America's shrimp; A guide to the 4 minerals shaping the world’s energy future... PLUS: Is planting trees 'DEI'? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort... and much, MUCH more! ...

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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Greenpeace ordered to pay hundreds of millions to fossil fuel company over Dakota Access Pipeline protests; WMO climate report documents spiraling weather and climate impacts; Trump Interior rolls back protections for migratory birds; PLUS: China unveils EV battery charging breakthrough... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): New study reinforces worries about pulses of rapid sea level rise; Peruvian farmer takes German energy giant RWE to court in fight to hold polluters accountable; Trump EPA aims to cut pollution rules projected to save nearly 200,000 lives; "The only generation available right now" - natural gas struggles while solar, wind soar; Can toxic mining waste help remove CO2 from the atmosphere; Uranium waste threatens a western New Mexico region's last clean aquifer... PLUS: Why we should worry when whales stop singing... and much, MUCH more! ...

We remain on the precipice of a Constitutional Crisis on today's BradCast, as our Man Baby President has now begun defying court orders. Some reasonably argue we are there already, but we will truly be there when (and if, but mostly when) he defies an order from the corrupted U.S. Supreme Court. For now, he's testing the waters by defying lower court orders. For the most part, those courts are largely holding firm in defense of the Constitution and rule of law, as the Administration continues to lose in ruling after ruling. Sadly, that hasn't prevented people from dying thanks to our reckless, lawless President and his top fundraiser's wasteful, fraudulent, abusive and deadly closures of critical Executive Branch agencies. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]

Among today's coverage...

• In a pathetic, early morning, MOSTLY ALL-CAPS social media rant today, Donald Trump demanded that a federal judge --- who reasonably ruled temporarily against his invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport hundreds of Venezuelans --- be "IMPEACHED!!!". The law has only ever been used during wartime, as it mandates the detention, imprisonment or deportation of non-citizens in the U.S. only from a "foreign nation or government" that has "declared war" against us or that has "perpetrated, attempted, or threatened" "any invasion or predatory incursion." Venezuela has done none of those things. The ruling against Trump followed an unusual late-night, emergency hearing on Saturday. The judge ordered the Administration to pause deportation to an El Salvador prison of alleged Venezuelan gang-member migrants until Trump's use of the war-time law could be further adjudicated. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered any U.S. migrant flights en route to El Salvador be returned the U.S. The Administration appears to have ignored the court order and has been stonewalling the judge's demand for information on when planes left and landed ever since. Thus Trump called for his "IMPEACHMENT!!!" winning an unusual, if very gentle, slap on the wrist from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in a rare public response today.

• Late last week, a federal judge in California ordered the reinstatement of thousands of federal workers at six different federal agencies, after finding that Elon Musk and his DOGE Bros unlawfully fired them without the legal authority to do so. An hour or two later, a federal judge in Maryland, in a separate lawsuit on a different legal basis, ordered that federal workers at 18 different agencies must be restored to their previous positions. The judge in CA has since made clear that rehiring the workers only to put them on immediate paid leave is also in violation of his order.

• In a major ruling today, a federal district court judge in Maryland ordered the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) --- which Trump, Musk and his DOGE Bro wrecking crew shut down almost entirely in the earliest days of his second term --- to be reopened. The judge ruled that Musk "likely violated the United States Constitution in multiple ways" in shuttering the critical international aid agency, which Musk described on his social media site ïn early February as having personally fed "into the wood chipper". USAID, among other critical work, supplies food to starving children and life-saving medicine to the sick around the globe. While Musk, the world's richest man, has claimed that "No one has died as a result" of his (unlawful, unconstitutional) closure of the agency, the New York Times' Nicholas Kristof, in a must-read, gut-wrenching report (gift link) traveled to South Sudan and elsewhere to find "that is not true", before going on to document how and where "the efforts by Musk and President Trump are already leading children to die". Unless aid is somehow quickly restored, Kristoff reports, those efforts are likely to kill millions in the coming months and years.

• The wasteful, fraudulent and abusive efforts by Trump, Musk and DOGE has not been entirely for naught, however. Turns out someone finally found a "dead" person receiving Social Security! Even if that person turned out to be very much alive and is now trying to get the funds that were suspended for some reason by the Social Security Administration in mid-February, turned back on. The DOGE dismantling of the SSA --- where field offices are being shuttered and 7,000 workers are scheduled to be laid off --- isn't helping.

• Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for our latest Green News Report, as deadly extreme storms killed more than 40 people in the U.S. over this past weekend; Trump's mass firings at NOAA are set to undermine accurate weather forecasting; and his Interior Dept. just cancelled the six-month old permits for construction of an off-shore wind-farm in New Jersey...

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): 'We don't have anywhere to go.' In Ghana, rising seas, powerful waves sweep away homes; Environmental groups sound alarm as fossil fuel lobby pushes for immunity; Hope for a Trump energy boom is marred by anxiety about tariffs; Climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann targeted again in court; Want cheap power, fast? Solar and wind farms have a suggestion... PLUS: Trump halted Agent Orange cleanup, putting hundreds of thousands at risk... and much, MUCH more! ...

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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump EPA announces plans to Make America Polluted Again; Trump Energy Secretary vows to reverse U.S. climate progress; PLUS: Climate whiplash is hammering major cities around the world, study finds... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Elon Musk's DOGE Bros descend on NOAA, Trump taps disgraced 'SharpieGate' guy to run it; Iconic monarch butterfly hits new low in Western U.S.; PLUS: Study finds rat populations are increasing due to global warming... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): January surprises with a global temperature record; "We feel terrorized": What EPA employees sasy about the decision to stay or go under Trump'; E.P.A. demotes career employees overseeing science, enforcement, and more; Colombia’s president orders national oil company to cancel US venture over environmental concerns... PLUS: Trump’s reversal of climate policies risks undermining U.S. manufacturing, costing jobs... and much, MUCH more! ...

On Day 2 of the second corrupt Trump Presidency, we catch up on today's BradCast with the destruction he wrought (or attempted to) on Day 1, just hours after he became the first convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and adjudicated insurrectionist to be sworn in as President of the United States. And it all just happens to come, coincidentally, on the 15th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's horrific 2010 Citizens United decision, which helped make so much of this day possible. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]

Given Donald Trump's "flood the zone" strategy, including scores of Executive Orders, Actions, Directives and Memoranda signed on Monday (much of it for show, some of it dangerously real) we try to cover a lot in a very short time on today's program. I'll do my best to quickly summarize at least some of it here...

• Since MLK Day was largely preempted by yesterday's Inauguration (and our 2025 Inauguration Counter-Programming Special --- thanks to many for the kind words about it!), we begin today with a piece of Martin Luther King's 1967 "Blue Print" speech to a group of students in Philadelphia that, surprisingly, served as inspiration for us today!

• Please note: It has now been more than "24 hours" since Trump was sworn in (and since he was elected in November, since that was the original, oft-repeated promise) and Russia's horrific war on Ukraine is still raging anyway.

• Trump signed scores of orders on Monday night, though the most immediately substantive was his "full, complete and unconditional" blanket pardons for about 1,500 January 6, 2021 insurrectionists and seditionist --- including the leaders of the far-right paramilitary groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who were found guilty and sentenced to more than a decade in prison for Seditious Conspiracy, in their treasonous (if failed) attempt to help Trump steal the 2020 election. Many of the violent domestic extremists who were released from prison today attacked law enforcement officers on that awful day at the U.S. Capitol, "armed with firearms, stun guns, flagpoles, fire extinguishers, bike racks, batons, a metal whip, office furniture, pepper spray, bear spray, a tomahawk ax, a hatchet, a hockey stick, knuckle gloves, a baseball bat, a massive 'Trump' billboard, 'Trump' flags, a pitchfork, pieces of lumber, crutches and even an explosive device." But all is now, apparently, forgiven with Trump's pardons, despite the assertion on Fox "News" just one week ago by then Vice President-elect J.D. Vance that "Obviously, if you committed violence on that day, you shouldn't be pardoned." But that was a week ago, and this is now, when, with today's release of the January 6 terrorists, Trump now has his own domestic paramilitary if and when needed. And those who testified against them originally, including law enforcement officers, are now, understandably, very concerned for their own personal safety.

• Trump signed an Executive Order declaring a "national emergency" and "invasion" at the southern border, where there is no such emergency or invasion. But now he has a pretext to invoke the military wherever it may be needed to round up, arrest, detain, imprison and deport undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, among other things.

• Trump signed an Executive Order claiming to end the 14th Amendment's Constitutional right to birthright citizenship, even as historian and tyranny expert Timothy Snyder helpfully reminds us: "A president’s executive order cannot undo a law or a Supreme Court decision, let alone a provision of the Constitution. Forget that and you do have a dictatorship on day one." That EO is already being challenged in court by 24 states.

• Trump, who miserably failed to handle the COVID pandemic, which killed more than a million Americans, signed a declaration withdrawing> from the World Health Organization.

• Trump signed an Executive Order revoking Joe Biden's landmark 2023 Executive Order on AI safety.

• Trump signed Executive Orders "protecting women from radical gender ideology" and declaring there are only two immutable sexes: male and female, as determined by whether they are born with eggs or sperm.

• Trump revoked a 2021 Biden Executive Order calling on federal agencies to promote voting access and expand voter registration. Trump and Republicans will have none of that! What do you think this is, a representative Constitutional democracy or something?!

• Trump also rescinded a Biden era Executive Order that had repealed an Executive Order from Trump's first term that attempted to game the U.S. Census for partisan gain by, among other things, attempting to exclude non-citizen residents of the U.S. from the count of the "whole number of persons in each state", as per the 14th Amendment, for the first time since the very first Census was carried out in 1790.

• Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for our first Green News Report of the second Trump era, with more on his Day 1 efforts to use Executive Orders to undermine the climate, the health of Americans, the livability of the planet, and the U.S. economy along with it. Trump signed Executive Orders declaring a "national energy emergency" (which is not a thing that actually exists); to stop all off-shore wind projects (what happened to that "national energy emergency"?!); and to join with Iran, Libya and Yemen by withdrawing (yet again) from the landmark, voluntary Paris Climate Agreement, a move that could end up costing the U.S. hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars via lost leadership, technology and manufacturing of clean, renewable energy...

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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Donald Trump at his Inauguration pledges to reverse U.S. climate and pollution policies, quickly signs Executive Orders to do so; Americans coast to coast grapple with climate-intensified extreme weather disasters; PLUS: Trump announces withdrawal of U.S. from Paris Climate Agreement, again... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Fact-checking President Trump’s 2025 inaugural address; Trump Targeted Scientists in His First Term. This Time, They’re Prepared; EPA Staff Directory Reveals Trump Appointees; Moss Landing, The World’s Biggest Grid Battery, Just Caught Fire Again... PLUS: Storm-Hit Town Voted For Trump, Who Vowed To Overturn Law To Fix Its Homes... and much, MUCH more! ...

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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Biden E.P.A. grants California waiver to phase out sales of new gasoline cars by 2035; New study links microplastics to lung and colon cancers; PLUS: Energy Department finds Republicans' plan to expand natural gas exports will drive up prices for Americans... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Biden just unveiled America’s ambitious new climate goal. Trump will assuredly undo it; The war against murder hornets is over, officials say. The U.S. won; Global warming can’t be ignored, Montana’s top court says, upholding landmark climate case; 'Explosive' demand growth puts more than half of North America at risk of blackouts; Trump transition team plans sweeping rollback of Biden EV, emissions policies; Insurance cracking under climate stress... PLUS: Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech?... and much, MUCH more! ...

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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump nominates climate science deniers and fossil fuel profiteers to head key federal agencies; Winters are warming up quickly across the U.S.; PLUS: President Biden offers hope for climate action, the first U.S. President ever to visit the Amazon Rainforest... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): The climate fight will continue; Trump might nix America as a climate tech leader. 5 charts show China winning that race; Weather extremes influence illegal migration and return between the U.S. and Mexico, study finds; Why hydropower is failing in Zambia --- and could fail others; To protect the ozone layer and slow global warming, fertilizers must be deployed more efficently, UN says... PLUS: EPA in Elon Musk's crosshairs... and much, MUCH more! ...

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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: New York and New Jersey grapple with record drought and autumn wildfires; Republicans win U.S. House majority, and the power to reverse Biden climate action; PLUS: U.N. climate summit (COP29) kicks off with very high stakes... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Amid Earth’s heat records, scientists report another bump upward in annual carbon emissions; Cop29 could change the financial climate for the world’s wealthy polluters; Oil industry asks Trump to repeal major climate policies; Extreme weather cost $2 trillion globally over past decade, report finds; Dutch appeals court overturns landmark ruling against Shell Oil... PLUS: How will offshore wind fare under a second Trump term?... and much, MUCH more! ...

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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Donald Trump's re-election has worldwide implications for climate action; Environment and climate groups vow to press forward; PLUS: Hurricane Rafael knocks out Cuba's national electric grid, again... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Dousing the Dumpster Fire: The real mobilization must begin; Global temperatures likely to exceed key limit for first time; Biden moves to limit oil drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; WA state voters uphold landmark climate law against conservative challenge; Dems, greens bet on holding House to fight climate rollbacks; Trump’s election win spells bad news for the auto industry... PLUS: Everything you need to know about Project 2025's plan for the EPA... and much, MUCH more! ...

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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Tornadoes strike Oklahoma, as wet weather complicates Election Day; October 2024 was one of the driest months in U.S. history; Late season Tropical Storm Rafael threatens U.S. Gulf Coast; A boatload of positive climate news; PLUS: President Biden allocates $3 billion to upgrade and electrify the nation's ports... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): What’s at stake on Tuesday? The planet; Trump vows anti-regulatory blitz; An angry Spain, still reeling from floods, faces more rain; Trump donor fined for pollution now leading fight to end methane emission penalties; New EV battery reaches 90% charge in 15 minutes; NYC tests a solar-powered school bus microgrid; L.A. County sue Pepsi and Coca-Cola over plastic pollution... PLUS: Fruit farmers of 50 years still at it, with help from wind turbines... and much, MUCH more! ...

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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Climate and the U.S. economy are on the ballot; World on pace for significant and dangerous warming without faster action, U.N. report warns; PLUS: Biden cracks down on lead paint, a serious threat to America's children... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): What could stop the global green energy race? A Trump victory; Planet-heating pollutants in atmosphere hit record levels in 2023; Rundown: 2024 Election climate ballot measures in states; How the ‘climate voter’ might matter in a down-to-the-wire US election; How are the world's trees doing? Not good... PLUS: New reports ahead of COP29 show world spinning its wheels on climate action... and much, MUCH more! ...