IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Hurricane Ian causes widespread damage, smashes records as it pummels Florida; Sen. Joe Manchin's controversial permitting reform bill collapses in the U.S. Senate; PG&E under investigation for sparking yet another deadly fire in California; PLUS: Massive, mysterious breaches erupt on Russian natural gas pipelines to Europe... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Maps Show How Millions Of People Have Moved Into Hurricane Ian’s Path; Mexico Is World's Deadliest Spot For Environmental Activists; Pivotal Supreme Court Term Begins With WOTUS War; Gulf of Mexico’s largest coral sanctuary faces an extreme threat that’s mystifying scientists; Number of Americans Exposed to Harmful Wildfire Smoke Has Increased 27-Fold... PLUS: Feeling Overwhelmed About Going All-Electric at Home? Here’s How to Get Started.... and much, MUCH more! ...

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

• Hurricane Ian pummels Florida:
• Live Updates from AP on Hurricane Ian (AP)
• VIDEO: Live Updates from CNN on Tropical Storm Ian (CNN)
• Hurricane Ian Live updates (Washington Post)
• Hurricane Ian one of strongest storms in US history; 2M in Florida without power; 911 callers stranded in homes (USA Today)
• Hurricane Ian: See initial damage reports from Southwest Florida (Yahoo News)
• People trapped in flooded homes, 2.5M without power as Hurricane Ian drenches Florida (AP):
  
  One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the United States threatened catastrophic flooding around the state. Ian’s tropical-storm-force winds extended outward up to 415 miles (665 km), and nearly all of Florida was getting drenched.
• South Carolina-bound Ian could become hurricane again, says NHC (MSN/Reuters)
• VIDEO: President Biden warns oil and gas industry to not use Hurricane Ian as excuse to raise prices (C-SPAN)
• Hurricane Ian also was a record-breaker:
• Climate change warning: Ian and the trend of rapidly intensifying storms (Axios)
• Ian smashes into southwest Florida with historic force (Yale Climate Connections)
• VIDEO: Ian’s Rapid Intensification is a Climate Driven Trend (Climate Crocks)
• A 'Nightmare' for Forecasters: Here's Why Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger, Faster (NY Times)
• Florida's recovery will be long, arduous, and expensive:
• Florida's Shaky Insurance Market May Not Be Able to Handle Hurricane Ian (Earther/MSN)
• Insurance companies barred from dropping Florida customers following Hurricane Ian (Orlando Weekly)
• Hurricane Ian reignites panic for Florida's strapped insurance market (NBC News)
• Fla. insurance crisis deepens as rates soar, companies fall (E&E News)
• European leaders accuse Russia of 'sabotage' of Nord Stream pipelines:
• Leaders blame Russia-Europe pipeline leaks on sabotage (AFP/MSN):
  
  Sabotage is the most likely cause of leaks in two Baltic Sea gas pipelines between Russia and Europe, European leaders said Tuesday, after seismologists reported explosions around the Nord Stream pipelines.
• European Union official says Nord Stream pipeline damage was likely "a deliberate act" as nations ramp up energy security (CBS News)
• Swedish Coast Guard: 4 leaks found on Nord Stream 1 and 2 (UPI/MSN)
• The Nord Stream pipeline methane gas leak could be one of the largest and pose a huge climate change risk, experts say (Yahoo News)
• Nord Stream operator decries 'unprecedented' damage to three pipelines (Washington Post)
• VIDEO: Nord Stream pipeline leaks raise suspicions of sabotage (DW News)
• VIDEO: Aerial footage of leak in Danish waters from Nord Stream 1 pipeline (Guardian UK)
• Is Putin Fully Weaponizing the Nord Stream Pipelines? Three gas pipeline leaks in a single day suggest the Kremlin may be sabotaging energy infrastructure. (Bloomberg)
• PGE under investigation for causing another CA wildfire:
• Forest Service opens criminal investigation into Mosquito fire’s start, PG&E says in filing (Sacramento Bee/MSN)
• PG&E Says It's Under Investigation for Starting Mosquito Fire in Sierra Nevada (KQED)
• Manchin's side deal on permitting reform collapses:
• Activists gird for round two in Manchin permitting fight (E&E News)
• Why Manchin backed off on his top priority (Politicoo)
• Progressives Didn’t Kill Manchin’s Permitting Reform Deal—but It Did Deserve to Die (the New Republic)
• Why the defeat of Manchin’s energy bill could be a loss for the climate (Washington Post)

'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

• Maps Show How Millions Of People Have Moved Into Hurricane Ian’s Path (Washington Post)
• Mexico Is World's Deadliest Spot For Environmental Activists (AP)
• Pivotal Supreme Court Term Begins With WOTUS War (E&E News)
• Gulf of Mexico’s largest coral sanctuary faces an extreme threat that’s mystifying scientists (NOLA.com)
• A Moonshot for Coral Breeding Was Successful (Hakai Magazine)
• Number of Americans Exposed to Harmful Wildfire Smoke Has Increased 27-Fold (Yale e360)
• All 50 states get final OK to build highway EV charging network (AP)
• 'It was wonderful': Eviation’s Alice electric airplane wins praise after its first flight test (GeekWire)
• Feeling Overwhelmed About Going All-Electric at Home? Here’s How to Get Started (Inside Climate News)
• Texas Is Now the Nation’s Biggest Emitter of Toxic Substances Into Streams, Rivers and Lakes (Inside Climate News)
• Federal Court Finds 3rd Iowa Ag-Gag Law Unconstitutional (AP)
• An Explosive Problem: The Radford Arsenal’s Toxic Operations (Center for Progressive Reform)
• Polluted Communities Need Bigger Role in Settlements, EPA Says (Bloomberg)
• Cemvita’s Successful Field Test Demonstrates Gold Hydrogen Production in Situ (press release, Business Wire)
• MIT's New Battery Could Shock Industry (Climate Crocks)
• Focusing on the climate actions that can make a real difference (David Roberts, Volts)
• VIDEO: See what three degrees of global warming looks like (The Economist/YouTube)
• The 7 climate tipping points that could change the world forever (Grist)
• The 1977 White House climate memo that should have changed the world (Guardian UK)
• Four solutions to mitigate climate change, from the IPCC (Dr. Michael Mann, Penn Today)
• UN warns Earth 'firmly on track toward an unlivable world' (AP)
• Environmental Sacrifice Zones: 8 Places We've Given Up-Probably Forever (Environmental Health Network)
• "Rare Earths" from Coal Waste (Climate Crocks)
• Feeling Hopeless About the Climate? Try Our 30-Day Action Plan (The Revelator)
• Green Upheaval: The New Geopolitics of Energy (Foreign Affairs)
• VIDEO: 2050: what happens if we ignore the climate crisis (Guardian UK)
• Guilt, grief and anxiety as young people fear for climate's future (Reuters)
• 99.9 percent Of Scientists Agree Climate Emergency Caused By Humans (Guardian UK)
• An Empire of Dying Wells: Old oil and gas sites are a climate menace. Meet the company that owns more of America's decaying wells than any other. (Bloomberg)
• Climate Fund Choices for Investors Are Multiplying (Bloomberg/Yahoo)
• How climate change could undo 50 years of public health gains (Grist)
• Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration (Pro Publica)
• Exxon's Snake Oil: 100 years of deception (Columbia Journalism Review)
• What Does '12 Years to Act on Climate Change' (Now 9 Years) Really Mean? (Inside Climate News)
• VIDEO: A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (The Intercept)
• 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.

                 

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