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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The 'Doomsday Clock' ticks ever closer to midnight; Trump formally takes U.S. out of Paris Climate Agreement for a second time; Yet another court blocks Trump's cancellation of offshore wind projects; EVs really do make the air cleaner; PLUS: Electric vehicles outsell conventional gasoline cars in Europe for the first time ever... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules; Through the heatwave haze, the hypocrisy of Australia’s fossil-fuel policy shines bright; Court orders the Netherlands to protect a Caribbean island from climate change; Legal setbacks against a dam in the Amazon raise questions about Brazil’s reliance on hydropower; Carbon trade measure slipped into spending package... PLUS: EPA to roll back ‘Good Neighbor’ Rule on downwind smokestack pollution... and much, MUCH more! ...

STORIES DISCUSSED ON TODAY'S 'GREEN NEWS REPORT'...

• Doomsday Clock ticks closer to midnight:
• ‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closer to midnight over threats from nuclear weapons, climate change and AI (AP):
  
  Since then, "hard-won global understandings are collapsing, accelerating a winner-takes-all great power competition and undermining the international cooperation" needed to reduce existential risks, the group said.
• It is now 85 seconds to midnight: 2026 Doomsday Clock Statement (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
• It is now 85 seconds to midnight [full PDF report] (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists):
  
  An array of adverse trends also dominated the climate change outlook in the past year...The national and international responses to the climate emergency went from wholly insufficient to profoundly destructive. None of the three most recent UN climate summits emphasized phasing out fossil fuels or monitoring carbon dioxide emissions. In the United States, the Trump administration has essentially declared war on renewable energy and sensible climate policies, relentlessly gutting national efforts to combat climate change.
• 2026 Doomsday Clock Announcement (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
• VIDEO: 2026 Doomsday Clock Announcement: Complete Livestream (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
• Trump pulls U.S. out of Paris Agreement for second time:
• ‘Abdication’: Trump takes US out of Paris climate agreement for a second time (Guardian):
  
  “It’s almost like they’re saying, we don’t care what you want from us, we will be the bad guys, and you cannot challenge us on it, because that’s exactly what we said you should expect from us,” said Basav Sen, climate justice project director at the progressive thinktank Institute for Policy Studies. The US retreat from climate action has not halted all global emissions-cutting efforts. Investment in low-carbon energy is far outpacing spending on fossil fuels. Renewable energy sources accounted for more than 90% of new power generation capacity last year and, in much of the world, are now the cheapest source of new electricity.
• America Officially Leaves the Paris Climate Agreement. For the Second Time. (NY Times):
  
  The dual moves by Mr. Trump underline America’s isolation in the effort to control emissions of greenhouse gases, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels, that are dangerously heating the planet...“What others will say is, ‘How on Earth is it possible that a country with this might, with this deep a purse, and with this direct responsibility for the planet heating up, basically checks out’?” Mr. Hoekstra said.
• Extreme heat wave bakes Australia:
• Australia swelters in a record heat wave as temperatures near 50C (122F) (AP)
• ‘Air conditioners are struggling’: parts of NSW, Queensland and Victoria swelter as heat records tumble (Guardian)
• Australian Open heat rules explained as tournament prepares for brutal 46C conditions (The Independent)
• Australia swelters in record heatwave as temperatures soar to nearly 50C/122F (Sky News)
• Australian heatwave fans bushfires, towns evacuated, Melbourne endures hottest day in 17 years (Radio NZ)
• EU's outsell ICE cars in EU for first time:
• Electric car sales edge above petrol in EU for first time (Reuters)
• Analysis: EVs just outsold petrol cars in EU for first time ever (Carbon Brief):
  
  EV giant Tesla...saw its market share in the EU fall 37.9% from 2024, following controversy around its owner, Elon Musk. Meanwhile, Chinese EV brand BYD tripled its market share from 0.7% in December 2024 to 1.9% in December 2025.
• EV adoption cleans up air pollution in real time:
• Yes, EVs Really Do Make The Air Cleaner (Inside EVs):
  
  California and New York witness huge emissions reductions as EV adoption rises.
• EVs promised cleaner air. Satellites say it’s finally happening. (Electrek):
  
  EVs are supposed to clean up the air, but finding real-world proof has been surprisingly hard. A new study from the University of Southern California (USC) says the satellite evidence is finally strong enough to measure.
• California's love of EVs really has made its air cleaner, study claims (Jalopnik)
• Zero-emissions vehicle adoption and satellite-measured NO2 air pollution in California, USA, from 2019 to 2023: a longitudinal observational study (The Lancet)
• Judge orders restart after Trump Admin. halts Vineyard Wind:
• Judge rules Massachusetts offshore wind project halted by Trump administration can continue (AP)
• Judge Revives Wind Farm That Trump Halted Off Martha’s Vineyard (NY Times):
  
  To justify the sweeping decision, officials cited a classified report by the Defense Department that found that the projects posed risks to national security. Judge Murphy, who was nominated to the bench by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., said he was unpersuaded by the government’s claims about national security after reviewing the classified report under seal.
• Federal judge rules that Vineyard Wind can resume construction (WGBH-Boston)
• With Vineyard Wind ruling, four of five offshore wind projects win relief from Trump freeze (Utility Dive)

'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (Stuff we didn't have time for in today's audio report)...

For a comprehensive roundup of daily environmental news you can trust, see the Society of Environmental Journalists' Daily Headlines page

• The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules (NPR)
• Through the heatwave haze, the hypocrisy of Australia’s fossil-fuel policy shines bright (Guardian)
• Court Orders the Netherlands to Protect a Caribbean Island From Climate Change (NY Times)
• Legal setbacks against a dam in the Amazon raise questions about Brazil’s reliance on hydropower (AP)
• MISO regulators seek stakeholder review for DOE ‘emergency’ orders cost allocation (Utility Dive)
• Carbon trade measure slipped into spending package (E&E News)
• Who Decides When a Home Is Safe? A California Bill Says Science, Not Insurers. (NY Times)
• Trump Tries (and Fails) To Disappear Climate Disaster Data (SEJ)
• Will Trump’s Push to Drill on California Public Lands be More Successful This Time Around? (Inside Climate News)
• Trump Admin Clips EPA Oversight Amid Deregulatory Blitz (E&E News)
• EPA To Roll Back ‘Good Neighbor’ Rule On Downwind Smokestack Pollution (AP)
• Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom (Wired)
• Geothermal a Valuable, But Overlooked Clean Energy Source? (SEJ)
• Why Greenland Matters for a Warming World (NY Times)
• Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in 'grim' report (Yale Climate Connections)
• How Trump's War on Climate Science impacts all Americans (Bloomberg)
• Solar Is Liberation (Rolling Stone)
• Governments legally required to address climate change, global court says (Inside Climate News)
• David Attenborough's 'Ocean' is a brutal, beautiful wake-up call from the sea (AP)
• Wall Street Journal: Clean energy transition is unstoppable (This Is Not Cool blog)
• Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech? (David Roberts, Volts)
• Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check (Dr. Andrew Dessler, Climate Brink)
• Who Will Care for Americans Left Behind by Climate Migration? (Pro Publica)
• Is the Atlantic Overturning Circulation Approaching a Tipping Point? (The Oceanography Society)
• How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists (Drilled)
• How To Spot 5 Of The Fossil Fuel Industry's Biggest Disinformation Tactics (Guardian)
• The Oceans We Knew Are Already Gone (The Atlantic)
• How to electrify your life when you rent (The Verge)
• Complete Series: Farmers Under Attack for Supporting Clean Energy (This Is Not Cool blog)
• Feeling Overwhelmed About Going All-Electric at Home? Here's How to Get Started (Inside Climate News)
• Feeling Hopeless About the Climate? Try Our 30-Day Action Plan (The Revelator)
• Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration (Pro Publica)
• Exxon's Snake Oil: 100 years of deception (Columbia Journalism Review)
• Project Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming (Drawdown.org)

BUT FIRST... A couple of other news items of note today...

• The first special elections since the murder of Veterans Affairs Intensive Care Unit nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis were held on Tuesday, to determine partisan control of the Minnesota state House of Representatives. Two vacant seats in very Democratic-leaning parts of the Twin Cities region were up for grabs. One featured a Democrat who ran unopposed. (Spoiler: she won.) The other featured a Democratic candidate running against a Republican who had run for the same seat, and lost, in both 2022 and 2024. It's a district where Kamala Harris won by 71 points. On Tuesday, the Democratic candidate, Meg Luger-Nikolai, won the election by more than 91 points! That's a 20-point swing for the Ds, as Luger-Nikolai garnered more than 95% of the vote. Her Republican challenger won just over 4%. If Republicans weren't worried about this year's midterms before, Tuesday night's results oughta put the fear of God into 'em.

• Speaking of elections, Donald Trump is still pretending he won the one that he lost in 2020 to Joe Biden. To that end, Trump has weaponized his FBI and today, they were ordered to raid the Fulton County (Atlanta) elections warehouse. Reportedly, the federal agents were there to collect ballots and other materials from the 2020 election, which have been retained by court order since then. Supposedly, this will finally provide Trump the evidence of massive "voter fraud" that he has alleged for so many years. If the Georgia Republican Sec. of State was unwilling back in January of 2021 to "find 11,780 votes" to help Trump steal the state's election that year, by golly, Trump is gonna "find" them himself now, five years later.

THEN... U.S. border patrol agents have fired shots 16 times over the course of the past year. In every instance, as WaPo reported yesterday, the Trump Administration declared the shootings to have been justified before any probe had been completed. Four U.S. citizens have been shot in those incidents. Two of them were killed over the past three weeks in Minneapolis.

While Trump is putting up a show of "softening" his stance on the federal government's invasion of the Twin Cities region by ICE and CBP, Greg Sargent argues that it's little more than posturing because Trump is now "frightened" that Democrats in Congress will shut the government down again unless serious restrictions are placed on funding for the Dept. of Homeland Security's immigration goon squads.

Senate Democrats, for their part, seem quite serious about doing just that, as the deadline for a new, 2026 government spending bill is midnight on Friday. With the House in recess, any changes made to the six funding bills they adopted before leaving, couldn't be voted on back in the House until they reconvene next week. That virtually guarantees at least a brief shutdown. To make things worse, Senate Republicans have been unwilling to decouple the DHS/ICE funding from the other funding bills, to keep the rest of the government open, until they can come to an agreement over new guardrails that Democrats are insisting on for ICE and CPB's clownish but deadly operations across the country.

"This is the right thing to shut down the government for," argues our guest, BOBBY KOGAN, today. He served as an advisor to the White House Office of Management and Budget under President Biden and, before that, as Senior Advisor on the Senate Budget Committee. He is now Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy at the Center for American Progress.

Kogan argues that "there is nothing more more quintessential than fighting government oppression." He tells me that he has long argued that nothing is more important to society than "shelter, food and healthcare. I'm the person who says that's the quintessential thing. But, actually, not being executed by the government is the most quintessential thing --- not being executed by the government for existing, and just filming them --- this is a thing you have to shut down the government for."

But at what cost? How many other unrelated agencies will also have to be closed for a time in the bargain? How many Americans will be harmed by those closures? And what exactly are Democrats insisting on in exchange for approving another $10 billion for ICE, after the Republicans' "Big Beautiful Bill" already established a $75 billion slush fund for the out-of-control agency just last Summer?

In addition to guarantees that they will follow the law and the Fourth Amendment's right to privacy with judicial warrants during raids of private homes, Kogan says that Democrats are coalescing on a number of demands, including mandated body cams during enforcement actions and DOJ civil rights reviews of federal government shootings. He also believes that someone, such as DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, will need to be fired, and that clawing back some of that $75 billion granted to ICE last year would also be "a good idea."

"We gave money to the IRS [during the Biden Administration], and as soon as they came to power," he explains, Republicans rescinded much of that money. He suggests Dems should do the same thing as well with the $75 billion that ICE received last year with no-strings-attached.

"There's not much leverage that the Democratic Party has because it is in the minority," Kogan concedes. "But you have to try. Because what else can you possibly do? This is one of the few must-pass bills that still exist. Government shutdowns cannot go on forever because eventually everything starts to break. So it's only a little bit of leverage, but you've got to use it."

Based on his conversations with Democrats in Congress, he tells me, they are not in the mood for "pinky promises from the administration that is busy executing U.S. citizens" when it comes to vows of course corrections. So, he assesses, "the most likely outcome is a six bill shutdown."

"Will it work? I don't know," Kogan asserts. "But Democrats owe it to the American people to do the best they can. Because it is not just political whims or whatever that matters. It matters to real people. And it matters to history. How we respond to this is going to shape what we are as a nation. So Democrats owe it to the American people to give it their all."

FINALLY... The legendary Bruce Springsteen released a new song today via social media called The Streets of Minneapolis. In his announcement, he explained that he "wrote this song on Saturday [the day Alex Pretti was killed], recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good." He added: "Stay free."

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• We begin with the darkest news, so things can only get brighter from there, right? The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, keepers of the notorious "Doomsday Clock" reveal their latest adjustment, ticking the metaphorical timepiece from last year's 89 seconds to midnight, to just 85 seconds to humanity's end this year. The group of science advocates cited increasing risk of nuclear warfare, worsening human-caused climate change (Donald Trump was singled out there) and other threats to civilization itself, such as the misuse of biotechnology and artificial intelligence.

• Buffoonish, Nazi-ish U.S. Customs and Border Patrol chief enforcement clown, Gregory Bovino, is pushed out following the latest killing of another U.S. citizen over the weekend in his violent, chaotic Minneapolis operation. New villains are rotated in by the White House, even as Trump appears to try and play nice with his mortal enemies, Minnesota's Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

• But there are even more signs that the courageous people of Minneapolis are winning this one, even if the battle is far from over. The chief federal judge in Minnesota (a George W. Bush appointee) has ordered in-person testimony from the Acting Director of ICE, after the Administration has repeatedly failed to comply with court orders regarding immigrant rights. The judge has ordered him to explain why he should not be held in contempt by the court.

• Trump's corrupt U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's thuggish letter to Minnesota's Gov. Walz --- sent to the state just after the border patrol agent execution of 37-year old VA ICU nurse and U.S. citizen Alex Pretti over the weekend --- landed with a thud, after she essentially suggested the federal immigration crackdown would end only if the state turned over its voter roll data to the federal government. Voting rights and election law experts described the move as "reprehensible". Bondi has sued some 23 states who refused to comply with the demand. Two weeks ago, a federal judge in California dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit against the state, finding it "unprecedented and illegal". Last week, a judge in Georgia dismissed the lawsuit in the Peach State. And yesterday, a federal judge in Oregon dismissed the DOJ's suit there. In the meantime, MN Sec. of State Steve Simon has explained that he has no intention of violating state or federal law to answer Bondi's "ransom note".

• As we covered last week, a recent federal review of nearly 50 million voter registrations found zero evidence of widespread fraud by noncitizens on the voter rolls in state after state, county after county. In a new report late last week, out of more than two million active voter registrations in Utah, the state was able to find just one single noncitizen on its rolls. The state found that the person never voted and has since been removed from the rolls. Utah is another state that has correctly refused to turn over its unredacted voter data to Bondi and the DOJ.

• In news from the front lines of the Trump/GOP Gerrymandering Wars, Democrats in Maryland are now moving ahead with a plan to draw a new map designed to flip the state's last remaining Republican U.S. House district from "red" to "blue". And a state judge in Virginia, just before airtime today, declared the effort by state Democrats to adopt a constitutional amendment to redraw its U.S. House map to flip as many as 4 or 5 seats from "red" to "blue" this year to be unlawful. Proponents of the measure accuse Republican opponents as forum shopping for a friendly judge and vow to appeal his ruling.

• Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for our latest Green News Report following the weekend's deadly winter storm across much of the U.S.; as House Republicans vote to overturn a decades-long ban on toxic mining in MN; as Michigan's Attorney General sues the Big Oil "cartel"; and as a judge blocks Trump's attempt to withhold funding for a national EV charging network adopted by Democrats under President Biden...

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Trump’s Grant Terminations Upheld by Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals; Natural Gas Price Surges Almost 30% as Arctic Blast Grips Much of US; Enviros Charge Administration Violated Laws In Approving Alaska Road; Oregon Court Tosses Old Rule that Allowed Logging on Vast Swaths of US Land; New ExxonMobil Climate Accounting Again Blames Consumers, Not Corporation... PLUS: How Cuts To Federal Climate Funds Could Threaten Polar Vortex Research... and much, MUCH more! ...

STORIES DISCUSSED ON TODAY'S 'GREEN NEWS REPORT'...

• Danger not over yet after deadly, extreme winter storm pummels US:
• US cities face dangerous temps, prolonged outages (USA Today):
  
  At least 43 deaths have been reported in the wake of the monster storm, from Texas to Massachusetts. Many of the deaths were attributed to hypothermia, exposure or activities related to snow removal.
• Deep cold could last days, worsening storm’s impacts: 'I'm just really, really tired' (Washington Post):
  
  Cold weather alerts were in effect for about 210 million people early Monday as forecasters monitor another potential storm.
• Icepocalypse in Oxford Miss (This Is Not Cool)
• Nearly 800K customers still without power from massive, major winter storm (Dr. Andrew Dessler, Balanced Weather)
• Winter storm severely stressed U.S. electric grid:
• Power plant outages surge in Eastern US amid restricted gas supplies and frigid weather (Reuters):
  
  PJM's territory also is hurt by bottlenecks in its transmission system of high-voltage power lines, hindering the transfer from west to east. For example, cheap power in Illinois on Sunday - sometimes dipping into negative prices because of abundant wind energy - could not be moved to help out other sections of PJM...Spot wholesale electricity prices across the U.S. have been elevated throughout the weekend as regional grids strain to meet surging demand.
• Why the Power May Not Go Out Until After the Storm Has Passed (NY Times):
  
  The steady accumulation of snow and freezing rain and a rise in demand for electricity can cause problems long after the sky clears, energy experts said...But PJM has not added many new power plants, batteries and other resources to its system. The Texas grid, by comparison, has added many new large battery storage systems and solar farms.
• Why long-lasting power outages could be a big problem after the storm (Washington Post):
  
  Freezing spells that have crippled gas production. Surges in demand that tax the grid. The buildup of snow and ice that overwhelms transmission lines and stymies crews trying to help restore power. Extended outages that can lead people to make dangerous choices, such as driving on slick roads or using unsafe heat sources inside their homes.
• Electricity grid is holding up despite outages, analysts say (Axios)
• VIDEO: Storm’s Biggest Grid Stress Still to Come (This Is Not Cool)
• FEMA pauses layoffs during disaster, orders 'Don't Say 'ice':
• FEMA pauses termination of disaster workers ahead of winter storm (Scripps News)
• FEMA Destruction Paused As Storm Barrels In (This Is Not Cool)
• Some FEMA employee layoffs put on hold, while reform council renewed (Government Executive)
• Don’t say ‘Watch out for ice’: FEMA warned storm announcements could invite memes (CNN):
  
  The concern is that the word could spark confusion or online mockery, given the ongoing controversy surrounding US Immigration and Customs Enforcement --- also known as "ICE."
• House GOP overturn ban on mining in MN's Boundary Waters:
• U.S. House votes to repeal ban on mining near Boundary Waters (MPR News)
• House votes to repeal ban on mining near Boundary Waters wilderness in Minnesota (Washington Post):
  
  The vote, which was largely along party lines, could pave the way for the Trump administration to reinstate leases and issue permits in the national forest to Twin Metals Minnesota, a Chilean-owned company that intends to mine a portion of the largest undeveloped copper and nickel deposit in the world. The measure also requires Senate approval...Whether the minerals would be ultimately used in the United States is unclear. Twin Metals’ Chilean owner, Antofagasta, sends about 75 percent of its output to Asia.
• Michigan files anti-trust lawsuit against Big Oil 'cartel':
• Michigan lawsuit accuses oil companies of operating ‘fossil fuel cartel’ (WLNS):
  
  "Michigan is facing an energy affordability crisis as our home energy costs skyrocket and consumers are left without affordable options for transportation," Nessel said in a statement. "These out-of-control costs are not the result of natural economic inflation, but due to the greed of these corporations who prioritized their own profit and marketplace dominance over competition and consumer savings."
• VIDEO: Oil companies SUED: AG Nessel alleges conspiracy to block renewables (WMMT)
• Michigan AG sues Big Oil over ‘cartel’ to suppress EVs, renewable energy (MLive)
• VIDEO: Key State Brings Lawsuit – Blames Big Fossil for Blocking Clean Energy, EVs (This Is Not Cool):
  
  Growing list of lawsuits against fossil fuel companies now includes a suit by the Attorney General of Michigan. Particularly relevant in that, due in part to the propaganda from fossil fuel interests, the Detroit Auto industry is now at existential risk due to the postponement and suppression of EV technology.
• Judge overturns Trump's freeze of EV network infrastructure funds:
• Trump team illegally froze EV charger rollout, federal judge rules (MSN/Morning Overview):
  
  The decision also sends a broader message to federal agencies: even in a change of administration, politically charged programs cannot be shelved by fiat. Instead, the court found, the White House and the Department of Transportation must follow the procedures Congress wrote into law before they can slow or redirect money that was already approved.
• Trump administration unlawfully suspended EV charger infrastructure program, US judge rules (Reuters)
• Judge blocks Trump administration from halting EV charging funds (CBT News):
  
  A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration unlawfully suspended funding for a major federal electric vehicle charging program, restoring billions of dollars intended for nationwide infrastructure expansion.

'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (Stuff we didn't have time for in today's audio report)...

For a comprehensive roundup of daily environmental news you can trust, see the Society of Environmental Journalists' Daily Headlines page

• Trump’s Grant Terminations Upheld by Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (Inside Climate News)
• Natural Gas Price Surges Almost 30% as Arctic Blast Grips Much of US (Bloomberg)
• Enviros Charge Administration Violated Laws In Approving Alaska Road (National Parks Traveler)
• Oregon Court Tosses Old Rule that Allowed Logging on Vast Swaths of US Land (Inside Climate News)
• How Cuts To Federal Climate Funds Could Threaten Polar Vortex Research (NPR)
• New ExxonMobil Climate Accounting Again Blames Consumers, Not Corporation (DeSmog Blog)
• Geothermal a Valuable, But Overlooked Clean Energy Source? (SEJ)
• Why Greenland Matters for a Warming World (NY Times)
• Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in 'grim' report (Yale Climate Connections)
• How Trump's War on Climate Science impacts all Americans (Bloomberg)
• Solar Is Liberation (Rolling Stone)
• Governments legally required to address climate change, global court says (Inside Climate News)
• David Attenborough's 'Ocean' is a brutal, beautiful wake-up call from the sea (AP)
• Wall Street Journal: Clean energy transition is unstoppable (This Is Not Cool blog)
• Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech? (David Roberts, Volts)
• Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check (Dr. Andrew Dessler, Climate Brink)
• Who Will Care for Americans Left Behind by Climate Migration? (Pro Publica)
• Is the Atlantic Overturning Circulation Approaching a Tipping Point? (The Oceanography Society)
• How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists (Drilled)
• How To Spot 5 Of The Fossil Fuel Industry's Biggest Disinformation Tactics (Guardian)
• The Oceans We Knew Are Already Gone (The Atlantic)
• How to electrify your life when you rent (The Verge)
• Complete Series: Farmers Under Attack for Supporting Clean Energy (This Is Not Cool blog)
• Feeling Overwhelmed About Going All-Electric at Home? Here's How to Get Started (Inside Climate News)
• Feeling Hopeless About the Climate? Try Our 30-Day Action Plan (The Revelator)
• Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration (Pro Publica)
• Exxon's Snake Oil: 100 years of deception (Columbia Journalism Review)
• Project Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming (Drawdown.org)

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