{"id":11734,"date":"2016-06-21T10:27:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T17:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11734"},"modified":"2016-06-21T11:36:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:36:51","slug":"green-news-report-june-21-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11734","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Green News Report&#8217; &#8211; June 21, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center; background-color:#f3fdf4; padding:10px 5px 4px 5px; line-height:20px; background-image:url('\/Images\/GradientDarkGreen_headline.jpg'); background-repeat:repeat-y;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/GNR_700.jpg\" style=\"display:block; margin:10px auto;\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i>Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!&#8230;<\/i><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNewsReport.bsky.social\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Bluesky-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GreenNewsReport\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Twitter-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GreenNewsReport\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Facebook-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/journa.host\/@GreenNewsReport\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Mastodon-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/green-news-report-w-brad-friedman\/id788236916\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Apple Podcasts' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/itunes-listen-on-apple-podcast-logo-png.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/green-news-report-w-brad-friedman-desi-doyen\/PC:1000011151\"><img width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Pandora' src='https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/Listen-On-Pandora-badge.png'><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-green-news-report-w-brad-f-30973644\/\"><img width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on iHeart' src='https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/Listen-On-IHeartRadio.png'><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Green-News-Report-Friedman-Doyen\/dp\/B08JJRX3TP\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Amazon Music' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/AmazonMusic-badge_690.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Green-News-Report-p477566\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on TuneIn' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/ListenOnTuneIn.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/GNR\/feed.xml\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='RSS\/XML Feed' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/RSS-XML-Feed.png\"><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px; display:block; margin-bottom:0; padding-bottom:0;\"><i>(Or use &#8220;Click here to listen&#8230;&#8221; link below.)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>IN TODAY&#8217;S RADIO REPORT:<\/strong> <em>OUR 700TH EPISODE!!!<\/em> Heat wave shatters records across the Southwest, as California&#8217;s snowpack melts away; Bernie Sanders wants YOU to fight climate change; <i>PLUS:<\/i> President Obama warns climate change is coming for your national parks&#8230; All that and more in today&#8217;s Green News Report!<\/p>\n<p><center><strong><em>Help us celebrate 700 GNR episodes connecting the climate change dots over your public airwaves! 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All GNRs are always archived at <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\">GreenNews.BradBlog.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IN &#8216;GREEN NEWS EXTRA&#8217;<\/strong> (<em>see links below<\/em>):  The Enormous Threat To America&#8217;s Last Grasslands; Document Dump: Lawsuit Reveals Extent Of DuPont&#8217;s C8 Cover Up; Solar Impulse Leaves New York On Trans-Atlantic Flight Without Fuel; Permafrost Soil Under North Slope Lakes Is About To Thaw; Hot Mess: States Struggle To Deal With Radioactive Fracking Waste; As Wind Power Lifts Wyoming&#8217;s Fortunes, Coal Miners Left in the Dust&#8230; <i>PLUS:<\/i> Texas Tribe Wins 10-Year Fight Over Its Use Of Eagle Feathers&#8230; and much, <i>MUCH<\/i> more! &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i><b>STORIES DISCUSSED ON TODAY&#8217;S &#8216;GREEN NEWS REPORT&#8217;&#8230;<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Heat wave shatters records across the Southwest:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/21\/us\/heat-wave-deaths-summer.html?_r=0\"><b>Summer Is Here. So Is a Deadly Heat Wave.<\/b><\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/06\/20\/us\/heat-wave-southwest-united-states\/\"><b>VIDEO: Wildfires and deadly heat wave hit Southwest U.S.<\/b><\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-sn-heatwave-science-20160620-snap-story.html\"><b>The science behind this crazy heat wave<\/b><\/a>: (LA Times):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">&#8220;Things are definitely out of whack here,&#8221;\u009d said Bill Patzert, a climatologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. &#8220;This heat wave is not only unusual in its intensity, it is potentially deadly.&#8221;\u009d&#8230;&#8221;In our work, we&#8217;ve found that by the middle of the century, L.A. will experience two to three times the numbers of hot days like this, and by the end of the century, there will be four to five times the number of extremely hot days,&#8221;\u009d Hall said.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/dead-heat-intensifies-southwest-states-millions-heat-warning\/story?id=39983503\"><b>VIDEO: Excessive Heat Warnings Issued for LA, Vegas and Phoenix<\/b><\/a> (ABC News)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/story\/32257743\/flight-to-phoenix-returns-to-houston-due-to-heat\"><b>Flight to Phoenix returns to Houston due to heat<\/b><\/a> (Phoenix 3TV)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/extreme-heat-climate-change-19641\"><b>Extreme Heat Is Defining Climate Change<\/b><\/a> (Climate Central)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Heat wave sparks new wildfires across 9 states:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-wildfires-idUSKCN0Z62AM\"><b>Firefighters hold &#8216;sleeping giant&#8217; wildfire in check in California<\/b><\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.com\/news\/2016\/jun\/16\/scherpa-fire-again-edges-close-exxonmobil-refinery\/\"><b>Scherpa Fire Edges Closer to ExxonMobil Refinery<\/b><\/a> (Santa Barbara Independent)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2016\/06\/16\/3789518\/wildfires-ravage-western-states\/\"><b>Multiple Western States Are Ablaze With Wildfires<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>California&#8217;s snowpack melts away:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/imageo\/2016\/06\/15\/going-going-gone-california-snowpack-has-vanished\/#.V2i65bsrLIU\"><b>Going, going, GONE &#8220;\u201d California&#8217;s snowpack has vanished<\/b><\/a> (Discover):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">For all intent and purposes, this vital source of water for tens of millions of Californians, and one of the world&#8217;s most productive agricultural economies, has vanished prematurely. The culprit: a sunny and warm spring. And with La Ni\u00e0\u00b1a probably on the way, things could get worse before they get better.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/state\/california\/water-and-drought\/article84891802.html\"><b>Melting snow, water releases and La Ni\u00e0\u00b1a complicate California&#8217;s drought picture<\/b><\/a> (Sacramento Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/California-drought-bummer-Sierra-water-runoff-8312202.php\"><b>California drought bummer: Sierra water runoff coming up short<\/b><\/a> (SF Gate):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">The Department of Water Resources now projects that the mountains will produce about three quarters of normal runoff during the months of heaviest snowmelt, shorting the rivers and reservoirs that typically provide a third of California&#8217;s water &#8220;\u201d and cementing a fifth year of historic drought for the Golden State.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Bernie Sanders wants YOU to fight climate change:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RzHSNjctOCk\"><b>VIDEO: Bernie Sanders National Live Stream Address<\/b><\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/berniesanders.com\/political-revolution-continues\/\"><b>Transcript: The Political Revolution Continues<\/b><\/a> (Bernie Sanders.com):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">We need people who are dedicated to public service and can provide the services we need in a high quality and efficient way&#8230;It means that as we combat climate change and transform our energy system away from fossil fuels, we need scientists and engineers and entrepreneurs who will help us make energy efficiency, solar energy, wind energy, geothermal and other developing technologies as efficient and cost effective as possible. It means that as we rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, we need millions of skilled construction workers of all kinds. It means that when we talk about growing our economy and creating jobs, we need great business people who can produce and distribute the products and services we need in a way that respects their employees and the environment.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>President Obama warns climate change is coming for your national parks:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/68770e50c8bb49b283efb544da5a80e5\/obamas-family-trip-intended-put-focus-national-parks\"><b>Obama says climate change already damaging national parks<\/b><\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/06\/17\/fact-sheet-obama-administration-recognizes-100th-anniversary-and\"><strong>FACT SHEET: Obama Administration Recognizes the 100th Anniversary and Economic Benefits of America&#8217;s National Parks<\/strong><\/a> (White House.gov)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0i3cwJ01k8Y\"><b>VIDEO: Obama In Yosemite -Full Speech<\/b><\/a> (The Uptake)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/06\/20\/remarks-president-sentinel-bridge\"><b>Remarks by the President at Sentinel Bridge, Yosemite National Park<\/b><\/a> (White House.gov):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">[S]tudies show that every dollar we invest in our national parks generates $10 for local economies.  And these parks help to drive our national outdoor industries -&#8220;\u201c boots and tents, and mountain bikes and snowmobiles -&#8220;\u201c and that industry supports 6 million American jobs and almost $650 billion in spending every year.  That&#8217;s a lot of fleeces and headlamps.  <\/p>\n<p>So as we look back over the last 100 years, there&#8217;s plenty to celebrate about a national parks system that is the envy of the world.  But when we look to the next century, the next 100 years, the task of protecting our sacred spaces is even more important.  And the biggest challenge we&#8217;re going to face in protecting this place and places like it is climate change.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><i>&#8216;GREEN NEWS EXTRA&#8217;<\/i> (Stuff we didn&#8217;t have time for in today&#8217;s audio report)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2016\/06\/16\/the-enormous-but-forgotten-threat-to-americas-last-grasslands\/\"><b>The Enormous Threat To America&#8217;s Last Grasslands<\/b><\/a> (Washington Post):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Over the past few years, Neil Shook has watched his world burn acre by acre. &#8216;I could tell something was happening,&#8217; Shook recalled, when he first noticed the plumes of smoke in 2011. By 2013, fires were raging every day, sending smoke billowing into the air &#8220;\u201d imagery that reminded Shook of Kuwait&#8217;s burning oil wells during the Persian Gulf War.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article84041227.html\"><b>Texas Tribe Wins 10-Year Fight Over Its Use Of Eagle Feathers<\/b><\/a> (McClatchy):\n<div class=mediagreen\">Ten years after a federal agent crashed a pow-wow of a Texas tribe and seized their ceremonial eagle feathers, the tribe has won a settlement that lets members keep the feathers &#8220;\u201c and get court costs paid, too.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2016\/06\/17\/the-u-s-is-powering-up-its-first-new-nuclear-reactor-in-decades\/?postshare=7911466184345530&#038;tid=ss_tw\"><b>It&#8217;s The First New U.S. Nuclear Reactor In Decades.<\/b><\/a> (Washington Post):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">In an immaculate control room at the Watts Bar nuclear plant, green bars flash on a large screen, signaling something that has not happened in the United States in two decades.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2016\/06\/19\/document-dump-lawsuit-reveals-extent-dupont-s-c8-cover\"><b>Document Dump: Lawsuit Reveals Extent Of DuPont&#8217;s C8 Cover Up<\/b><\/a> (DeSmog Blog):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Corporate heavyweight DuPont is back in court right now, defending their decision to poison entire communities along the Ohio River by releasing a toxic chemical known as C8 into the river. C8 is a chemical that is used in the manufacturing of the company&#8217;s blockbuster product Teflon.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/06\/20\/482777559\/a-transatlantic-flight-without-fuel-solar-impulse-leaves-new-york-on-ambitious-t\"><b>Solar Impulse Leaves New York On Trans-Atlantic Flight Without Fuel<\/b><\/a> (NPR):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">A solar-powered airplane took off from New York&#8217;s John F. Kennedy International Airport early Monday, in a bid to have the Solar Impulse 2 craft cross the Atlantic Ocean and land in Spain on Thursday.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/arctic\/2016\/06\/17\/permafrost-soil-under-north-slope-lakes-is-about-to-thaw\/\"><b>Permafrost Soil Under North Slope Lakes Is About To Thaw<\/b><\/a> (Alaska Dispatch):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">In northernmost Alaska, permafrost is steadily warming and large amounts of thaw are expected by the end of the century. But for some spots, the thaw is about 70 years ahead of that predicted pace, new research shows.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/british-columbia\/bc-indigenous-leaders-bring-case-against-lng-terminal-to-ottawa\/article30517412\/\"><b>B.C. Indigenous Leaders Bring Case Against LNG Terminal To Ottawa<\/b><\/a> (Toronto Globe &#038; Mail):\n<div class='mediagreen\">Two B.C. First Nations leaders fighting a proposal to export liquefied natural gas from Lelu Island say Ottawa needs to recognize the hereditary rights of the Allied Tsimshian Tribes of Lax Kw&#8217;alaams.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/21\/science\/coral-reproduction-survival.html\"><b>In Secrets of Coral Spawning, Hope for Endangered Reefs<\/b><\/a> (NY Times):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">At night, just after the full moon, teams of scientists dive beneath the waves to study one of the planet&#8217;s most prolific and mysterious rites of reproduction.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicintegrity.org\/2016\/06\/20\/19784\/hot-mess-states-struggle-deal-radioactive-fracking-waste\"><b>Hot Mess: States Struggle To Deal With Radioactive Fracking Waste<\/b><\/a> (Center for Public Integrity):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Potentially dangerous drilling byproducts are being dumped in landfills throughout the Marcellus Shale with few controls\/<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macon.com\/news\/local\/article84877497.html\"><b>Georgia Power Spending Nearly $2 Billion To Retire Coal Ash Ponds<\/b><\/a> (Macon Beacon-Journal):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">All 29 ponds will be closed within three years. Ash from 16 ponds will go to lined landfills. Impermeable barriers will protect 13 other closed ponds.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/20\/us\/as-wind-power-lifts-wyomings-fortunes-coal-miners-are-left-in-the-dust.html?ref=energy-environment&#038;_r=0\"><b>As Wind Power Lifts Wyoming&#8217;s Fortunes, Coal Miners Left in the Dust<\/b><\/a> (NY Times):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">After Kullin Orcutt lost his job at the Peabody coal mine this spring, he knew what he needed to do: join the exodus. &#8220;Leave Gillette, leave the state,&#8221;\u009d he said.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/jun\/14\/may-marks-one-more-record-hot-month-for-the-world\"><b>May marks one more record hot month for the world<\/b> <\/a> (Guardian UK):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">May was the fifth record warm month this year, upping the odds that 2016 will be the hottest year on record<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/imageo\/2016\/06\/17\/temperatures-across-earth-land-and-sea-surfaces-still-running-at-record-highs\/#.V2i7XbsrLIU\"><b>NOAA confirms it: temperatures across Earth&#8217;s land and sea surfaces are still running at record highs<\/b><\/a> (Discover):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">[H]uman-caused global warming may slow a bit, or even plateau temporarily. That wouldn&#8217;t be unusual, since the upward trend in global average temperatures due to humankind&#8217;s emissions of greenhouse gases does not run in a straight line.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/climate-energy\/want-to-fight-climate-change-here-are-the-7-critical-life-changes-you-should-make\/?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_campaign=weekly-static\"><b>Want to fight climate change? Here are the 7 critical life changes you should make<\/b><\/a> (Grist) [<i>emphasis added<\/i>]:\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">So, given the imperfections of this world, what is a lone wolf such as yourself to do? Here are some conclusions gleaned from this study:  <b>1. 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