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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!
Green News Report
with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen
2/4/2025
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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)
“How climate change could upend the American Dream” – Desi link upthread
Reminds me of the Dylan lyrics “You got some big dreams, baby, but in order to dream you gotta still be asleep” (When You Gonna Wake Up) …
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