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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Donald Trump's on-again, off-again tariff threats spike global energy prices; Administration deletes climate change and environmental justice across the government; Study finds microplastics in human brains; PLUS: Trump dumped billions of gallons of much-needed reservoir water in California... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): How climate change could upend the American Dream; Tribes push to control reservation water as Wyoming seeks to send it outside; In wind for Trump, Shell walks away from major New Jersey offshore wind farm; State Farm seeks an emergency insurance rate increase after LA wildfires; PLUS: Rats! More rodents are infesting cities as scientists blame warmer temperatures... and much, MUCH more! ...

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

• Trump's on-off tariff threats spike global energy prices:
• Trump Tariffs Could Hurt Oil Companies and Increase Gas Prices (NY Times):
  
  Some oil refineries will probably struggle to replace imported crude oil if President Trump imposes 25 percent tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico.
• Trump to pause promised tariffs for 30 days after speaking with Trudeau (CBC)
• The threat of U.S. tariffs has some Canadians taking their money elsewhere (CBC)
• VIDEO: Read the transcript of Trudeau's response to U.S. tariffs on Canada (CBC)
• The first Americans to feel Trump's tariff 'pain'? New Englanders. (Yahoo Finance)
• Fuel oil is NH's top Canadian import. What would tariffs mean for local energy costs? (New Hampshire Public Radio)
• VIDEO: "Enormous Destruction": Trump's Tariffs on Mexico, Canada & China Set to Worsen Inflation (Democracy Now!)
• VIDEO: 'Higher Prices For Energy, Higher Prices For Groceries': Tim Kaine Rips Into Trump's Tariffs
  (Forbes/CNN)
• Trump Administration deletes 'climate change' and cancels initiatives:
• Trump's EPA Has Deleted All Web References to Climate Change (ZNet)
• Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday" (NY Times)
• Trump's Halt on Climate Spending Freezes Jobs and Stalls Projects (NY Times)
• EPA Cuts Off IRA Solar Money Already Under Contract (E&E News)
• EPA Tells Staff To Pause Most External Communications And Meetings (Government Executive)
• EPA Workers Receive Emails Warning Their Employment Could Be Terminated (CNN)
• EPA fires science advisers (E&E News)
• Amid freeze fracas, uncertainty lives on for environmental programs (AP)
• Elon Musk's takeover of Treasury's payment system threatens all government funding:
• Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury's Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous (Nathan Tankus, Notes on the Crises)
• Explainer Thread: "The second is the chokepoint. If you have access to payments and data, you can shut opponents off from key resources" (Abe Newman/Bluesky)
• Musk Says DOGE Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors (Bloomberg)
• Trump dumped billions of gallons of CA's water reserves
• Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams (LA Times)
• VIDEO: Central California farmers raise concerns after Trump orders dam water release (ABC-Fresno)
• 2.2 billion gallons of water flowed out of California reservoirs because of Trump’s order to open dams (CNN)
• Microplastics confirmed clogging up human brains:
• Human brain samples contain an entire spoon's worth of nanoplastics, study says (CNN)
• Levels Of Microplastics In Human Brains May Be Rapidly Rising: Study (Guardian):
  
  The exponential rise in microplastic pollution over the past 50 years may be reflected in increasing contamination in human brains, according to a new study.
• Alarming levels of microplastics found in human brains (National Geographic)

'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

• How climate change could upend the American Dream (Pro Publica)
• Tribes Push to Control Reservation Water as Wyoming Seeks To Send it Outside (Inside Climate News)
• In Win For Trump, Shell Walks Away From Major New Jersey Offshore Wind Farm (AP)
• Trump admin's attack on clean energy and climate funding continues (Canary Media)
• State Farm seeks an emergency insurance rate increase after LA wildfires. It’s the latest blow to California’s housing market (CNN)
• Trump’s under-the-radar Alaska order has environmentalists on edge (CNN)
• Rats! More rodents are infesting cities as scientists blame warmer temperatures (AP)
• Court restores fishing gear protections for endangered whale species (AP)
• 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)
• The Climate Fight Will Continue (This Is Not Cool blog)
• 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)
• Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming (Nature)
• How To Spot 5 Of The Fossil Fuel Industry's Biggest Disinformation Tactics (Guardian)
• The Oceans We Knew Are Already Gone (The Atlantic)
• Plug-in hybrids vs. electric cars: We did the math on which is better for you (Washington Post)
• 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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