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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Torrential rains trigger historic flooding across western Washington State; Trump Administration has rejected disaster aid requests from at least 12 states; PLUS: NYC's congestion pricing program has dramatically reduced traffic and air pollution... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Ford will take $19.5 billion write-down as it rolls back EV plans; Costa Rica, famous for marine conservation, is bankrolling its own destruction; Wyoming ranchers wanting solar say utilities and state stand in their way; Trump’s anti-climate policies are driving up insurance costs for homeowners, say experts; Denied federal disaster aid, a town in Maryland's Trump Country feels forgotten ... PLUS: Climate change, new mining may push Alaska’s Arctic past the brink... and much, MUCH more! ...

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

• Western Washington grapples with ongoing flooding emergency:
• Record flooding swamps Western Washington (NY Times):
  
  Gov. Bob Ferguson and other state officials cautioned that more rainfall was expected after rivers hit record flood levels across the region, while residents worried about the long-term future.
• WA floods: Levee failure prompts evacuation along White River in Pacific (Seattle Times)
• Washington state orders immediate evacuations in three Seattle suburbs (Guardian)
• Flash flood warnings follow levee breach in Washington state (Reuters)
• VIDEO: Flash flood evacuation issued for Tukwila area after Green River levee breach (KOMO News)
• VIDEO: Dr. Samantha Burgess, Copernicus - EU Declares 2025 Second Hottest Year in Modern Record (This Is Not Cool)
• Homeowners Sue Oil Companies as Climate Damage Drives up Insurance Rates (Inside Climate News)
• Trump denied or delayed disaster aid for at least 12 states:
• Trump Administration Actions Weakening Disaster Preparation and Response (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities):
  
  As of October 2025, at least 12 state requests for aid had been denied since the beginning of the Trump Administration, over a dozen approvals were still pending, and denials of specific parts of requests — such as Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) or an increase in federal cost sharing — were piling up. Many of these denials have fallen along party lines.
• Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid (Revolving Door Project)
• Federal court orders Trump Admin. to restore FEMA disaster grant funding:
• Federal judge orders FEMA to restore billions in canceled disaster mitigation funding (AP):
  
  The program’s disruption upended projects across hundreds of communities in both Republican- and Democratic-led states, thwarting plans to improve stormwater drainage, harden electrical lines and even help relocate households living in areas most vulnerable to disasters.
• 20 states sue FEMA for canceling grant program that guards against natural disasters (AP, 7/16/2025)
• Trump administration makes major changes to a report it commissioned on FEMA reforms, AP sources say (AP)
• Southeast Asia's deadly floods were 'supercharged' by climate change:
• Deadly November Asian Storms 'Supercharged' By Climate Change: Researchers (Reuters):
  
  A team of researchers with the World Weather Attribution group said that during the most intensive five days of rainfall, sea surface temperatures in the North Indian Ocean were 0.2 degrees Celsius higher than the 1991-2020 average, packing the storms with additional heat and energy.
• New England commercial shrimp fishery to remain closed:
• New England’s shrimp fishery to shut down for the long haul after years of decline (AP):
  
  Regulators voted Thursday to extend a shutdown preventing New England fishermen from catching shrimp, a historic industry that has recently fallen victim to warming oceans...
• New York City's congestion pricing is clearing traffic and the air:
• In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution (Yale Environment 360):
  
  The decline seen in New York was greater than in other cities with congestion pricing, such as Stockholm and London, researchers note. And the effect extended beyond Lower Manhattan. Pricing led to a drop in pollution across the greater metropolitan area, according to the study, published in the journal npj Clean Air.
  "This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether, like riding public transportation or scheduling deliveries at night. This thins traffic and limits how smog compounds when many cars are on the road."
• Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs (Cornell Univ. Chronicle)
• A first look into congestion pricing in the United States: PM2.5 impacts after six months of New York City cordon pricing (Nature)
• VIDEO: Congestion pricing reducing traffic in NYC, increasing revenue after first 6 months, officials say (CBS News, 7/5/2025)

'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

• Trump’s anti-climate policies are driving up insurance costs for homeowners, say experts (Capital and Main)
• Atmospheric rivers – what to know about the storms inundating the Pacific north-west (Guardian)
• Denied federal disaster aid, a town in Maryland's Trump Country feels forgotten (NY Times)
• Lawsuit seeks to stop oil exploration in remote areas of the Arctic (NY Times)
• Arizona city rejects data center after AI lobbying push (E&E News)
• Ford will take $19.5 billion write-down as it rolls back EV plans (NY Times)
• Indiana says it is retiring two coal plant, but is it making other plans? (Canary Media)
• Costa Rica, famous for marine conservation, is bankrolling its own destruction (Inside Climate News)
• Wyoming ranchers wanting solar say utilities and state stand in their way (Inside Climate News)
• Trump EPA adds another chemical industry lobbyist to ranks of conflicted regulators (The New Lede)
• Climate change, new mining may push Alaska’s Arctic past the brink (AP)
• Bill McKibben: "A low point of human inaction on climate change? Not really." (The New Yorker, no paywall)
• Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in 'grim' report (Yale Climate Connections)
• How Trump's War on Climate Science impacts all Americans (Bloomberg)
• Solar Is Liberation (Rolling Stone)
• Governments legally required to address climate change, global court says (Inside Climate News)
• 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)

                 

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