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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: We're back! But, while we were out --- some big developments in climate science, climate strikes, extreme weather impacts, public lands policy, pollution, and pesticides. A month's worth of green news, jammed into six minutes, in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Making a killing: As indigenous climate protectors die, businesses profit; How Trump's USDA is failing farmers on climate change; New Chevron oil spill emerges in Kern Co., CA; Louisiana kills net metering. Will other states roll back solar?; Why we need to treat wildfire as a public health issue in California; Trump administration calls wild horses biggest threat to public lands; Microgrids emerge as potential solution to blackouts... PLUS: 5 'radical' climate policies that most Americans actually like... and much, MUCH more! ...

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

• Trump Admin. tries to revoke CA's special Clean Air Act authority:
• Trump administration to revoke California’s power to set stricter auto emissions standards (Washington Post)
• 23 States Sue Trump Administration In Escalating Battle Over Emissions Standards (NPR)
• Trump Admin. dismantles major public lands policies
• Land transfers anger lawmakers, threaten spending bills (E&E News)
• CBP releases statement on cactus bulldozed for border wall construction (KVOA-Tucson)
• Proposed Trump rule aims to ease restrictions on mineral mining companies (The Hill)
• September 2019 hottest September ever recorded globally
• Earth just experienced its hottest September, as 2019 heads for the record books (Washington Post)
• September 2019 tied as 2nd hottest on record for U.S. (NOAA)
• UN IPCC warns of dire threat to oceans from climate change:
• The Oceans We Know Won’t Survive Climate Change (The Atlantic)
• Choices made now are critical for the future of our ocean and cryosphere (IPCC)
• Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (IPCC)
• Special Report: Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate --- Summary for Policymakers (IPCC)
• From Antarctica to the Oceans, Climate Change Damage Is About to Get a Lot Worse, IPCC Warns (Inside Climate News)
• New U.N. climate report: Monumental change already here for world’s oceans and frozen regions (Washington Post):
  
  Growing coastal flooding is inevitable, and damage to corals and other marine life has already been unleashed. But scientists say the world still has time to avert even more severe consequences.
• Landmark UN report warns sea levels will rise faster than projected by 2100 (CNN)
• Extreme storms bring extensive flooding, damages, and death:
• Why Typhoon Hagibis packed such a deadly, devastating punch in Japan (Washington Post)
• Typhoon Hagibis death toll rises to 72 as thousands are left stranded in the cold without power (CNN)
• Japan cleans-up after deadly typhoon Hagibis (Deustche-Welle)
• 5 Killed, Hundreds Rescued in Southeastern Texas After Imelda Dumps 40 Inches of Rain (Time)
• Tropical Storm Imelda Left 5 Dead in Texas and Many Flooded. Will FEMA Aid Come Next? (Government Executive Magazine)
• Critics slam Trump EPA's revision of lead and copper standards for drinking water:
• New E.P.A. Lead Standards Would Slow Replacement of Dangerous Pipes (NY Times)
• For the first time in decades, EPA is overhauling how communities must test for lead in water (Washington Post)
• EPA proposes lead pipe rule changes after 20 years, but some advocates say it doesn't go far enough (CNN)
• CA wildfires: Firefighters make headway, aging grid equipment may be cause:
• Fast-moving L.A.-area wildfire broke out under power tower, authorities say (CBS)
• Firefighters make headway against the biggest of California's active wildfires (CNN)
• PG&E blackout backlash escalates:
• ‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room (NY Times)
• PG&E faces sanctions, demands for refunds in wake of planned blackouts (San Jose Mercury News)
• PG&E says system had 100 incidents of damage due to wind (AP)
• PG&E is less than one-third done with its 2019 tree-trimming work (SF Chronicle)
• PG&E power outage could cost the California economy more than $2 billion (CNBC)
• Judge: PG&E Paid Out Stock Dividends Instead of Trimming Trees (KQED)
• This Is What Adapting to Climate Change Looks Like (The Atlantic):
  
  PG&E’s blackouts in California are a bleak preview of the disruptions that will become routine in a warmer world.
• ‘I’m Out’: PG&E Blackouts Stagger Californians (Wall Street Journal)
• Global Climate Strike and C40 Mayors Summit focus on climate action:
• ‘Listen and help us’: Kids worldwide are on strike for the climate (National Geographic)
• Greta Thunberg Says Friday Climate Strike Will Go on for 'As Long As It Takes' to Stir World Leaders Into Action (Newsweek)
• "Only the beginning": 6 million people join latest wave of global protests for action on climate crisis (Guardian UK)
• Climate Action Playbook Brief: A strategic brief to accelerate and deepen climate action in cities: [PDF] (C40 World Summit of Mayors)
• San Jose Biggest U.S. City to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings (Bloomberg)

'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

• Making a killing: As indigenous climate protectors die, businesses profit. (Heated)
• 'I'm standing here in the middle of climate change': How USDA is failing farmers (Politico)
• New Chevron Crude Spills Emerge in Kern County Oil Field (KQED)
• Five Radical Climate Policies That Most Americans Actually Like (The Atlantic)
• Louisiana kills net metering. Will other states roll back solar? (E&E News)
• Utilities Are Promising Net Zero Carbon Emissions, But Don't Expect Big Changes Soon (Inside Climate News)
• Why we need to treat wildfire as a public health issue in California (The Conversation US)
• Trump administration calls wild horses biggest threat to public lands — here are the real threats (The Hill)
• The William Perry Pendley Rehabilitation Tour (The Revelator)
• Micro Power Grids Emerge as Way to Keep Electricity on During Shutoffs (KQED)
• What Does '12 Years to Act on Climate Change' (Now 11 Years) Really Mean? (Inside Climate News)
• VIDEO: A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (The Intercept)
• This Is How Human Extinction Could Play Out (Rolling Stone)
• SEJ Backgrounder: Green New Deal Proposes Sweeping Economic Transformation (Society of Environmental Journalists)
• Explainer: The 'Green New Deal': Mobilizing for a just, prosperous, and sustainable economy (New Consensus)
• What genuine, no-bullshit ambition on climate change would look like: How to hit the most stringent targets, with no loopholes. (David Roberts, Vox)
• A Global Shift To Sustainability Would Save Us $26 Trillion (Vox)
• Project Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming (Drawdown.org)
• An Optimist's Guide to Solving Climate Change and Saving the World (Vice)
• The great nutrient collapse: The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention. (Politico)
• The world's bleak climate situation, in 3 charts: We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there. (Vox)
• The Climate Risks We Face (NY Times):
  
  To stabilize global temperature, net carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced to zero. The window of time is rapidly closing to reduce emissions and limit warming to no more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the goal set in the Paris climate accord. The further we push the climate system beyond historical conditions, the greater the risks of potentially unforeseen and even catastrophic changes to the climate - so every reduction in emissions helps.
• The Uninhabitable Earth: When will climate change make earth too hot for humans? (New York Magazine):
  
  Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak - sooner than you think.
• A beginner's guide to the debate over 100% renewable energy (Vox):
  
  Clean-energy enthusiasts frequently claim that we can go bigger, that it's possible for the whole world to run on renewables - we merely lack the "political will." So, is it true? Do we know how get to an all-renewables system? Not yet. Not really.

FOR MORE on Climate Science and Climate Change, go to our Green News Report: Essential Background Page

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

                 

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