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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Al Gore and Hillary Clinton rally Millennial voters to #VoteClimate; Federal appeals court allows construction to resume at Dakota Access pipeline; North Carolina grapples with Hurricane Matthew's toxic aftermath; PLUS: Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin calls for a day of prayer - for oil... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Record Warmth Helps Shrink U.S. Carbon Emissions; Elon Musk hits back at coal baron who called him a 'fraud' over green subsidies; Upward revision of global fossil fuel methane emissions based on isotope database; Efficiency saves developed countries $540 billion a year, IEA reports; New Jersey Transit, a Cautionary Tale of Neglect; Historic Climate Agreement Will Make Air Travel Carbon Neutral By 2020; Why the difference between taxing and trading carbon matters; The biggest climate change story in the world this week is quietly playing out in Rwanda; Solar Power Is About to Hit Texas Generators Where It Hurts Most... PLUS: A Trump presidency is a clean energy nightmare... and much, MUCH more! ...

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

• Al Gore rallies Millennial voters to #VoteClimate with Hillary Clinton:
• Hillary Clinton urges Florida voters not to elect 'climate change denier' Trump (Guardian UK):
  
  In a joint address in Miami, Clinton and former vice-president Al Gore hammered the Republican nominee for his belief that global warming is a hoax

• We finally heard what Clinton sounds like when she digs in on climate. (Grist):
  
  Clinton ran down her existing proposals on infrastructure, rooftop solar, energy efficiency, and more, though she omitted the more controversial subjects, like what to do about pipeline permits, that have dogged her campaign.
• Clinton dedicates an entire speech to climate change (Climate Progress)
• North Carolina: Hurricane Matthew's toxic aftermath:
• North Carolina's Floods Threaten to Unleash Lagoons of Pig Poop (The Atlantic):
  
  [A]s Hurricane Matthew's floodwaters rise, North Carolina bears the health and environmental cost of cheap pork.
• VIDEO: Environmental Disaster Feared From NC Floods (MSNBC)
• Flooded North Carolina farms are likely littered with drowned livestock (Washington Post)
• North Carolina’s record floods could have unexpected environmental consequences (Climate Progress):
  
  Local Riverkeepers worry that high water could lead to flooded coal ash ponds and hog manure lagoons.
• Duke Energy Cooling Pond Dam Collapses in Wake of Hurricane Matthew Flooding (Eco-Watch)
• NC Aquatic Dead zone from floods after Hurricate Floyd (McGraw-Hill, October 1999)
• Protesters arrested as Dakota Access pipeline construction resumes:
• Federal court refuses to halt Dakota Access Pipeline (Climate Progress):
  
  In an ironic twist, the D.C. court’s decision to allow construction to go forward was issued just a day before Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a counter-celebration to Columbus Day aimed at drawing attention to the brutal genocide, violation of human rights, and suppression of indigenous cultures that followed the arrival of European explorers in the Americas.
• Court Denies Tribe's Appeal to Block Controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (ABC News):
  
  The judges even went on to say "we can only hope the spirit of Section 106 may yet prevail," referring to a section of the National Historic Preservation Act that requires federal agencies to take into account effects on historic properties and gives the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation an opportunity to comment.
• VIDEO: Shailene Woodley arrested at Dakota Access Pipeline protest (CBS News):
  
  This may be a first in celebrity activism: “The Fault in Our Stars” actress Shailene Woodley live-streamed her arrest Monday while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.
• Judges ask tough questions in Dakota Access pipeline appeal (Bismarck Tribune)
• At least 9 activists arrested in coordinated pipeline shutdowns in 4 states:
• Activists disrupt key Canada-U.S. oil pipelines (Reuters)
• VIDEO: Activists just disrupted Canada’s tar sands pipelines into the United States (Climate Progress):
  
  Five oil pipelines into the U.S. were allegedly disrupted...“There is no plan of action, policy or strategy being advanced now by any political leader or environmental organization playing by the rules,” Ken Ward, one of the arrested activists, said in a statement. “Our only hope is to step outside polite conversation and put our bodies in the way. We must shut it down.”
• Activists Block AIM Pipeline Construction by Locking Down Inside Pipe (Democracy Now!)
• Here's How Easy It Is to Sabotage America's Energy Grid (Reuters):
  
  All it took was a pair of bolt cutters and the elbow grease of a few climate activists to carry out an audacious act of sabotage on North America’s massive oil and gas pipeline system...the sabotage illustrated how vulnerable pipelines are to low-tech attacks.
• 9 arrested as activists declare solidarity with Dakota Access opponents (Grand Forks Herald)
• Oklahoma Governor Fallin proclaims 'Oilfield Prayer Day":
• Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says all faiths, not just Christians, should observe ‘Oilfield Prayer Day’ (Washington Post):
  
  “We have a saying: The oil field trickles down to everyone,” he said.
• When the oil boom went bust, Oklahoma protected drillers and squeezed schools (Reuters) [emphasis added]:
  
  State lawmakers voted to keep in place some of the lowest taxes on oil and gas production in the United States - a break worth $470 million in fiscal year 2015 alone...The state’s schools haven’t been so fortunate...the school attended by his five-year-old granddaughter, Adelynn, will open just four days a week next year. The Bridge Creek school district will slash spending because of a projected $1.3 billion state budget shortfall next year.
• Oklahoma governor to revise 'Oilfield Prayer Day' decree (to include more religions than just Christianity) (AP):
  
  "T[]here are a lot of things that could be prayed about in this state, and the oil field is not at the top of that list."
• Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin Asks Citizens to Pray for the State's Oil Industry (Jezebel):
  
  Maybe Oklahomans should be praying, particularly for their government to stop allowing utilities to charge homeowners for installing solar panels.

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

• Record Warmth Helps Shrink U.S. Carbon Emissions (Climate Central):
  
  As the first half of 2016 blew away temperature records, it also blew away some carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels in the U.S., a new U.S. Department of Energy report shows.
• A Trump presidency is a clean energy nightmare (Climate Progress):
  
  He’s been clear he’ll do everything in his power to undermine clean energy - both here and globally...The good news is that a President Donald Trump could not stop the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. That trend is irreversible. The bad news is that he could probably slow it enough to destroy the modest chance the world now has to avoid catastrophic warming in the wake of the Paris climate agreement.
• Elon Musk hits back at coal baron who called him a 'fraud' over green subsidies (Guardian UK):
  
  Trump backer Robert Murray claimed Tesla had received $2bn from taxpayer...Musk tweets that the real fraud is ‘denial of climate science’
• Upward revision of global fossil fuel methane emissions based on isotope database (Nature):
  
  Our findings imply a greater potential for the fossil fuel industry to mitigate anthropogenic climate forcing, but we also find that methane emissions from natural gas as a fraction of production have declined from approximately 8 per cent to approximately 2 per cent over the past three decades.
• Efficiency saves developed countries $540 billion a year, IEA reports (Climate Progress):
  
  Economic growth is no longer tied to energy use.
• New Jersey Transit, a Cautionary Tale of Neglect (NY Times):
  
  The swift decline of one of the nation’s busiest commuter railroads is a story of failures and mismanagement, and ominous for mass transit systems across the country.
• A Historic Climate Agreement Will Make Air Travel Carbon Neutral By 2020 (Fast Co-Exist):
  
  It aims to make the industry's activities carbon neutral by 2020, but instead of asking airlines to reduce their emissions directly (though they are working on this) it will allow them to pay to offset their emissions with carbon credits generated by CO2 reductions elsewhere. The entire aviation sector had been previously omitted from the broader Paris climate treaty.
• Why the difference between taxing and trading carbon matters (Maclean's):
  
  There is a great deal of confusion among both supporters and opponents of carbon pricing about what it can and cannot do to reduce emissions.
• Baseload vs. Flexibility: Standing the Traditional Generation Model on its Head (Renewable Energy World):
• The biggest climate change story in the world this week is quietly playing out in Rwanda (Vox)
• Solar Power Is About to Hit Texas Generators Where It Hurts Most (Bloomberg)
• Utilities squeezed as corporations seek renewable energy elsewhere (Midwest Energy News)
• Coffee And Climate Change: In Brazil, A Disaster Is Brewing (NPR)
• No country on Earth is taking the 2 degree climate target seriously (Vox):
  
  If we mean what we say, no more new fossil fuels, anywhere.

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• NASA climate change video: This is the U.S. in 2100 (NASA).

                 

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