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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Pacific hurricane season off to an unusually early and ferocious start; Trump Admin's mass layoffs and budget cuts seriously impacting national parks; PLUS: Congressional Republicans' big budget bill would increase energy prices and sell off public lands... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Scientists warn that greenhouse gas accumulation is accelerating and more extreme weather will come; The $1 trillion climate problem Republicans are ingnoring Trump USGS touts potential oil and gas resources beneath public lands in updated survey; Global climate talks resumed this week in Germany, for the first time in 30 years without the United States; Children born now may live in a world where the US can only produce half as much of its key food crops; EV batteries can easily outlast a typical gas car's lifespan: study... PLUS: Losing homes in 'climate havens'... and much, MUCH more! ...

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

• Hurricane Erick slams into Mexico's coast, fifth named storm in 3 weeks:
• Erick makes landfall in Mexico as a major hurricane (Balanced Weather):
  
  Regardless of the exact intensity at landfall, Erick was an incredibly impressive event for the east Pacific in June...[It] was the earliest landfalling eastern Pacific major hurricane by more than 2 months.
• Hurricane Erick makes landfall in Mexico as major Category 3 storm (NBC News)
• Erick makes landfall as a Category 3 hurricane, the strongest to hit Mexico so early in the year (CNN):
  
  It underwent extreme rapid intensification from Tuesday night into Wednesday night, strengthening from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane in just 24 hours. Rapid intensification is becoming more frequent in a world warming due to fossil fuel pollution.
• VIDEO: Dr. Michael Brennan, National Hurricane Center, Update on Hurricane Erick (NOAA/NWS YouTube)
• Americans' energy bills now rising faster than inflation:
• Why Your Electric Bill is Going Up. Spoiler – That Pain is from Gas (This Is Not Cool):
  
  Electric bills are expected to keep climbing this summer along with the temperatures. The Energy Information Administration expects the average U.S. residential electric bill to be about 4% higher this summer than last, mostly because of a jump in natural-gas prices, the largest source of power generation. Natural gas deliveries to power plants will cost about 50% more from June through September than last year.
• Millions of Americans brace for high utility bills amid ongoing price hikes — here's why electricity rates are going up (The Cool Down)
• Oil prices spike, US stocks fall on Israel-Iran crisis (Al Jazeera)
• Republicans big budget bill will increase energy costs for everyone:
• Republican tax bill will raise electricity prices, analysts say (NJ Spotlight News):
  
  Without these tax credits, which are part of a 2022 climate, tax and health-care law called the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, power companies would likely add fewer projects to the electrical grid, in turn making electricity more scarce and more expensive — in other words, bowing to the economics of supply and demand.
• Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher. (NY Times):
  
  The cost of electricity is rising across the country, forcing Americans to pay more on their monthly bills and squeezing manufacturers and small businesses that rely on cheap power...This week, the Senate is taking up Mr. Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, which has already passed the House. In its current form, that bill would abruptly end most of the Biden-era federal tax credits for low-carbon sources of electricity like wind, solar, batteries and geothermal power.Repealing those credits could increase the average family’s energy bill by as much as $400 per year within a decade, according to several studies published this year.
• With Americans Facing Utility Bill Increases This Year, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Threatens To Drive Costs Even Higher (Center for American Progress)
• Projected Impacts of Repealing the Section 45Y and 48E Technology-Neutral Clean Electricity Tax Credits (Resources For the Future)
• Republicans' set up mass sell-off of public lands:
• 250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in GOP budget bill (Wilderness Society):
  
  The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history to help cut taxes for the richest people in the country. It trades ordinary Americans’ access to outdoor recreation for a short-term payoff that disproportionately benefits the privileged and well-connected.
• Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee proposes sale of more than 2 million acres of US lands (AP)
• President’s proposed public land sale includes beloved Lake Tahoe sites (South Tahoe Now)
• Trump's rollbacks already harming red states:
• $14 billion in clean energy projects have been canceled in the US this year, analysis says (AP)
• Project cancellations threaten US clean energy manufacturing boom (E&E News)
• Electric vehicle battery company halts construction of South Carolina manufacturing plant (South Carolina Daily Gazette)
• Trump's clean energy rollbacks will hurt U.S. economy long term:
• Study says clean energy rollbacks will cost economy $1.1 trillion by 2035 (Inside Climate News):
  
  U.S. Clean Energy Policy Rollbacks: The Economic and Public Health Impacts Across States (Univ. of Maryland Center for Global Sustainability)
• Trump Admin's cuts and layoffs are seriously impacting our national parks:
• Summer Staffing Crunch Hits National Parks After Trump Cuts (Reuters):
  
  At Yosemite National Park in California, one of the oldest and most popular U.S. natural preserves, the workforce is stretched so thin this season that nearly all staffers, even scientists, are required to take turns cleaning campground toilets, according to two people familiar with conditions there...It's a reflection of a severe worker shortage in national parks across the country, which have been under budget and understaffed for years, that has been made worse by cuts to the federal workforce by President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk's cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency.
• Superintendent of Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park resigns, citing staffing cuts (AP):
  
  "I did not want to be empowering the current administration to cause that kind of impact on the people that I’m responsible for," Heatley said. "And I also did not want to participate in the dismantlement — effectively a dismantlement — of the National Park Service. We’re being told, for instance, when people leave, they only want to replace 25 person of those permanent positions," he said. "You can’t run an organization like that."
• VIDEO: Superintendent of Crater Lake National Park resigns, says Trump administration is dismantling the agency (KGW-TV Portland)

'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

• Scientists warn that greenhouse gas accumulation is accelerating and more extreme weather will come (AP)
• The $1 trillion climate problem Republicans are ingnoring (The New Republic)
• Losing homes in 'climate havens'(This Is Not Cool)
• Senate Republicans are choosing oligarchs and oil over their own children (This Is Not Cool)
• USGS touts potential oil and gas resources beneath public lands in updated survey (Inside Climate News)
• Global climate talks resumed this week in Germany, for the first time in 30 years without the United States (Inside Climate News)
• Children born now may live in a world where the US can only produce half as much of its key food crops (CNN)
• EV batteries can easily outlast a typical gas car's lifespan: study (Inside EVs)
• Elon Musk’s AI Company Faces Lawsuit Over Gas-Burning Turbines (NY Times)
• Inside Utah’s PR Campaign to Seize Public Lands (Public Domain)
• 7,500 Interior Workers Took Trump Buyouts Or Early Retirement (E&E News)
• David Attenborough's 'Ocean' is a brutal, beautiful wake-up call from the sea (AP)
• What's missing from the U.S. debate on electric vehicles (CSIS)
• 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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