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IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Electricity demand is soaring around the country, and so are energy prices; FDA expands recall of potentially radioactive shrimp; Climate change super-charged Europe’s worst wildfire season on record; PLUS: Trump Administration moves to revoke the iconic ‘Roadless Rule’… All that and more in today’s Green News Report!

Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen 9/9/2025

‘Green News Report’ – September 9, 2025  |  With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen...   · · · · ·   ‘Green News Report’ – September 9, 2025  |  With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen...

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IN ‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’ (see links below): Humans are altering the seas. Here’s the the future ocean might look like; Gas turbine manufacturers gun shy about increasing production; Raid on Georgia E.V. battery plant raises new risks for a shaken industry; Global solar installations up 64 percent so far this year; EPA approves four new pesticides that qualify as PFAS; Florida’s fix for its struggling insurance market hurt homeowners, data show… PLUS: ‘There is only one player’: China is becoming world leader in green energy… and much, MUCH more! …

STORIES DISCUSSED ON TODAY’S ‘GREEN NEWS REPORT’…

• FDA expands recall of potentially radioactive shrimp:
• FDA expands radioactive shrimp recall to 18 states — here’s what to check in your freezer (Yahoo News)
• More potentially radioactive frozen shrimp recalled. See list. (USA Today)
• Radioactive metal at an Indonesia industrial site may be linked to massive shrimp recall (LA Times):
  “Preliminary information suggests that it may have originated from activities at a metal melting facility at the same industrial site or from the disposal of scrap metal junk to other areas of the site,” IAEA spokesperson Fredrik Dahl said in an email….Meanwhile, the company that exported the shrimp, PT Bahari Makmur Sejati, also known as BMS Foods, has recalled more than 300 shipping containers that were already on their way to the U.S., Dahl said.
• Europe’s record wildfire season supercharged by climate change:
• Warming Made Hot, Dry Weather That Fueled Iberian Wildfires 40 Times More Likely (Yale Environment 360)
• Fossil-fueled climate heating set the stage for devastating fires in Spain and Portugal this summer (Inside Climate News)
• A quarter of U.S. homes face severe or extreme climate risk:
• One out of every 4 homes is at ‘severe or extreme’ climate risk, study says (Fortune):
  Overall, it finds that 26% of U.S. homes are at severe or extreme risk, with flood risks particularly underestimated by the federal government. Nearly 6 million homes ($3.4 trillion in value) face severe flooding in the next 30 years, about 2 million more than FEMA estimates, due to outdated flood maps. Major metro areas like Miami, New York, Tampa, Los Angeles, and Houston collectively hold hundreds of billions of dollars in at-risk property.
• 1 in 4 homes face ‘severe or extreme’ climate risks, study finds (The Hill)
• 2025 Realtor.com Housing and Climate Risk Report (Realtor.com)
• Offshore wind developer and two states sue Trump Admin to reverse wind project stoppage:
• States and developer sue the Trump administration for halting work on New England offshore wind farm (AP)
• States, companies sue Trump administration over wind farm stop-work order (Politico)
• Electricity demand and prices are soaring in the U.S., and Trump is making it worse:
• Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation (NPR):
  The soaring price of natural gas is also pushing power prices higher. More than 40% of electricity is generated using natural gas. As more gas is exported as liquid natural gas, the competition from foreign customers is driving up the price utilities have to pay here at home.
• High power prices emerge as problem for Trump (The Hill):
  “It’s less power capacity being built, and then that means that there’s gonna be less supply of power and the same demand, so prices will be higher,” Thomas Rowlands-Rees, head of North America Research at BloombergNEF, said when asked about the repeal of renewable energy tax credits.
• Why is my electricity bill so high? What to know about rising costs (USA Today)
• How AI infrastructure is driving a sharp rise in electricity bills (PBS NewsHour)
• VIDEO: Jim Ketchum, NextEra Energy CEO: We Need Renewables — Gas, Nuclear Can’t Help Us Now (This Is Not Cool)
• Trump Admin. proposes rescinding iconic ‘Roadless Rule’ (again):
• 45 Million Acres of Public Land at Risk: Here’s How to Weigh In (Gear Junkie):
  The rule was designed to address the growing costs of maintaining 386,000 miles of existing national forest roads while protecting habitat and clean water…Conservation organizations immediately raised concerns about the decision. Trout Unlimited noted that 70% of roadless areas hold native trout or salmon. The group warned that rolling back protections could threaten clean water, fish habitat, and hunting opportunities.
• Federal government moves ‘Roadless Rule’ one step closer to repeal (Deseret News):
  It’s a policy that prohibits the building of roads on 44.7 million acres of public lands (which was initially 58.5 million, but several states have carved out exceptions for themselves) that was implemented to conserve and protect just 2% of remaining American ecosystems from development. That small percentage is a massive amount of land representing about 30% of the entire area managed by the U.S. Forest Service.
• 6 Reasons to Keep the ‘Roadless Rule’ in Place (National Parks Conservation Association)
• How to Write Effective Public Comments (Environmental Data and Governance Initiative)
• Submit a public comment: Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; National Forest System Lands (Regulations.gov)
• EPA public comment period open on ‘endangerment finding’: Make your voice heard:
• Register a public comment on Trump EPA’s repeal of its landmark ‘endangerment finding’, using docket tracking number 2025-14572 (Regulations.gov)
• How to Write Effective Public Comments (Environmental Data and Governance Initiative)

‘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

• Humans are altering the seas. Here’s the the future ocean might look like (NY Times)
• Gas turbine manufacturers gun shy about increasing production (This Is Not Cool)
• Raid on Georgia E.V. battery plant raises new risks for a shaken industry (NY Times)
• Global solar installations up 64 percent so far this year (Yale Environment 360)
• ‘There is only one player’: China is becoming world leader in green energy (Guardian)
• DC Circuit reverses EPA removal of sudden emission protections (Bloomberg)
• Trump plan to move USDA spurs brain drain fears (The Hill)
• EPA approves four new pesticides that qualify as PFAS (Civil Eats)
• Inside Trump’s unorthodox climate attacks in courts nationwide (NY Times)
• California quietly guts ambitious virtual power plant bill (Canary Media)
• Florida’s fix for its struggling insurance market hurt homeowners, data show (Washington Post)
• Explosion at Louisiana oil plant leaves black community coated in toxic fallout (Capital B)
• Solar Is Liberation (Rolling Stone)
• Governments legally required to address climate change, global court says (Inside Climate News)
• 10 Ways to Keep Your Home Cool This Summer (Bloomberg, no paywall)
• David Attenborough’s ‘Ocean’ is a brutal, beautiful wake-up call from the sea (AP)
• 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)
• 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)
• How To Spot 5 Of The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Biggest Disinformation Tactics (Guardian)
• The Oceans We Knew Are Already Gone (The Atlantic)
• 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)