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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Largest coral bleaching event on record, impacting 84% of world's reefs; Trump says he loves coal miners even while cutting programs that help keep miners alive; PLUS: Trump White House guts funding for federal climate and weather research... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Nearly half of Americans breathing unsafe levels of air pollutants; Interior Department to fast-track oil, gas and mining projects; GOP support of carbon capture fractures in Louisiana, nationally; How "beautiful clean coal" is raising costs, and killing us; Oregon House passes bill making large data centers pay for power grid costs; From China to EU, world leaders meet on climate without US officials... PLUS: The economic case for preserving America's wetlands... and much, MUCH more! ...

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

• Largest coral bleaching event ever recorded now underway:
• VIDEO: 84 percent of the world’s coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record (AP):
  
  "We may never see the heat stress that causes bleaching dropping below the threshold that triggers a global event," said Mark Eakin, corresponding secretary for the International Coral Reef Society and retired chief of the Coral Reef Watch program of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "We're looking at something that’s completely changing the face of our planet and the ability of our oceans to sustain lives and livelihoods," Eakin said.
• Largest coral bleaching event on record impacts 84 percent of world's reefs: NOAA (ABC News)
• Current Global Bleaching: Status Update & Data Submission (NOAA Coral Reef Watch):
  
  On April 15, 2024, NOAA (in partnership with the International Coral Reef Initiative) confirmed the world is in the midst of its 4th global coral bleaching event. From 1 January 2023 to 20 April 2025, bleaching-level heat stress has impacted 83.7% of the world’s coral reef area and mass coral bleaching has been documented in at least 83 countries and territories.
• The only way to save coral reefs (Heated.World)
• Trump Admin. eliminated funding for National Climate Assessment:
• Trump moves to hobble major US climate change study (Politico)
• "Americans Will Be Less Safe": An Author of the Country’s Biggest Climate Report Reflects on Its Gutting (Mother Jones):
  
  Without a new National Climate Assessment, Americans will be less safe, and climate change will get worse. This is one of the many tools that we use to make sure that everything we know is available for anyone who needs to know it. And if we don’t produce this report, the available information will be worse. People will be working with outdated findings. It will be more fragmented and more scattered.
• Trump administration minimized federal climate scientists’ findings of record CO2 growth (CNN)
• Trump administration fires staff for flagship U.S. climate assessment (Science)
• Trump White House budget breaks up NOAA, slashes NASA's science budget:
• White House outlines plan to gut NOAA, smother climate research (Politico):
  
  The Trump administration wants to effectively break up NOAA and end its climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to help boost U.S. fossil fuel production, budget documents show...Among the blueprint’s most “insidious” actions, Spinrad said, is the planned dissolution of NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which is at the very core of the agency’s climate, weather and oceans science mission.
• The costs of Trump’s NOAA science purge (Politico)
• White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On (Pro Publica)
• Proposed NOAA budget cuts would end climate research. ‘Huge impacts’ are expected (Post and Courier)
• Trump Has Some Potentially Deadly Cuts Planned for Weather Research (The New Republic)
• Trump White House quietly cancels NASA research verifying greenhouse gas cuts (Science):
  
  You can't manage what you don't measure. The adage is especially relevant for climate-warming greenhouse gases, which are crucial to manage—and challenging to measure... [T]he CMS is an obvious target for the Trump administration because of its association with climate treaties and its work to help foreign nations understand their emissions.
• Trump's cuts to NASA budget could make failure an option for space agency (USA Today)
• VIDEO: TV Mets Talk NOAA Cuts (This Is Not Cool Blog)
• Congressional Democrats Assail Trump’s Plans for Deep Cuts to Government Science (Inside Climate News)
• impacts - cripple industries
• Trump backtracks on ending NOAA contracts to climate data centers (MSN)
• Trump claims to love coal miners while cutting programs protecting miner safety:
• Trump touts 'clean coal' but cuts programs that protect miners (Washington Post)
• NIOSH layoffs to have direct effects on coal miners (WBOY-Clarksburg, WV)
• As Trump eyes coal revival, his job cuts hobble black lung protections for miners (Reuters)
• MSHA delays enforcement of silica rule for coal mines (Economic Policy Institute)
• Coal Miners Sue Trump Admin After It Halts Black Lung Protections (Gizmodo)
• Trump EPA fired nearly all environmental justice staff:
• In policy reversal, Trump eliminates help for Black and Latino communities hit harder by pollution (AP)
• EPA begins layoffs of environmental justice staff (Reuters):
  
  "Decimating our agency and Environmental Justice workforce goes against our oath to protect human health and to keep our planet healthy and habitable for future generations," said Joyce Howell, Executive Vice President of AFGE Council 238 that represents over 8,400 EPA workers nationwide.
• How the closure of EPA offices puts poor and minority communities at risk (PBS NewsHouse)
• Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters (Pro Publica)
• Historic deal reached to curb shipping emissions, without the U.S.:
• Countries reach historic deal to cut shipping emissions (United Nations)
• Major nations agree on first-ever global fee on greenhouse gases with plan that targets shipping (AP)
• UN shipping agency strikes deal on fuel emissions, CO2 fees (Reuters)

'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

• Nearly half of Americans breathing unsafe levels of air pollutants (Guardian)
• Interior Department to fast-track oil, gas and mining projects (NY Times)
• The economic case for preserving America's wetlands (Mother Jones)
• GOP support of carbon capture fractures in Louisiana, nationally (Floodlight)
• Environmental groups sue, saying Trump administration violated their free-speech rights (NPR)
• How "beautiful clean coal" is raising costs, and killing us (This Is Not Cool blog)
• DOE makes $46.7M loan disbursement to support Palisades nuclear restart (Utility Dive)
• Oregon House passes bill making large data centers pay for power grid costs (KATU-Salem)
• New England grid demand hits record low as rooftop solar kicks in (Reuters)
• From China to EU, world leaders meet on climate without US officials (Bloomberg)
• New process turns coal ash to rare earth gold (This Is Not Cool blog)
• New Jersey Wildfire Forces Evacuations, Reaches Closed Nuclear Power Plant (Guardian)
• A guide to the 4 minerals shaping the world’s energy future (Grist)
• Wall Street Journal: Clean energy transition is unstoppable (This Is Not Cool blog)
• 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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