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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>): Consumer products panel votes to warn consumers about toxic flame retardants; Hurricane Irma may speed the end of orange juice, America&#8217;s biggest source of &#8216;fruit&#8217;; Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have flopped with drivers; Will Exxon Mobil&#8217;s fuel cell concept work?; Class action suit targets FL Power &#038; light after Irma outages; 10 giant companies commit to electric vehicles; More logging on public lands means more wildfires; Forest fires are raging out West; EPA Pruitt pulls enforcement officers away from investigations for personal security detail; CA sues Trump over border wall environmental waivers&#8230; <i>PLUS:<\/i> Deniers dismiss link between climate change, super-hurricanes as &#8216;idle chatter.&#8217; It&#8217;s anything but&#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>Hurricane Maria devastates Puerto Rico:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hurricane-maria-category-2-path-latest-track-models-2017-09-20\/\"><b>VIDEO:Hurricane Maria flattens homes, leaves Puerto Rico without power<\/b><\/a> (CBS News)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-41340392\"><b>Hurricane Maria: whole of Puerto Rico without power<\/b><\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/09\/20\/hurricane-maria-path-latest-news-live-puerto-rico-virgin-islands\/\"><b>Hurricane Maria leaves 100 per cent of Puerto Rico without power &#8211; latest news <\/b><\/a> (Telegraph UK)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-09-19\/hurricane-maria-heads-for-puerto-rico-after-dominica-strike\">><b>Hurricane Maria Latest Threat to Puerto Rico After $1 Billion Irma Hit<\/b><\/a> (Bloomberg):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Puerto Rico filed for bankruptcy in May after years of economic decline while a series of defaults have effectively left it unable to raise money in the capital markets. Its aging government-owned electric utility operates under court protection from creditors and its emergency fund stood at about $32 million before Irma knocked out power to hundreds of thousands.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wymt.com\/content\/news\/Maria-strengthens-to-Category-3-hurricane-445388633.html\"><b>Maria dips below major hurricane status<\/b><\/a> (AP):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico as the third strongest storm to make landfall in the United States based on a key measurement meteorologists use: air pressure.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2017\/09\/20\/as-maria-slowly-pulls-away-from-puerto-rico-the-u-s-east-coast-watches-and-awaits-its-next-move\/?utm_term=.9167b0b6a137\"><b>As Maria pulls away from Puerto Rico, &#8216;catastrophic&#8217; flooding continues, and East Coast awaits its next move<\/b><\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>2017 hurricane season really is more intense than normal:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2017\/09\/19\/the-scariest-thing-about-2017s-hurricanes-they-got-really-bad-really-fast\/?utm_term=.3dce09ff12ba\"><b>What&#8217;s scary about 2017&#8217;s hurricanes isn&#8217;t just their strength. It&#8217;s how fast they&#8217;re achieving it<\/b><\/a> (Washington Post):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">[Mark DeMaria, acting deputy director of the National Hurricane Center] said that this season is seeing more rapid intensification events than usual and that Maria, in particular, appears to have set a key record for hurricane rapid intensification in the Atlantic&#8230;There&#8217;s little chance to warn people or for them to prepare if rapid intensification occurs, so forecasters naturally want to be able to have a handle on it &#8211; but it&#8217;s a struggle.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/19\/us\/hurricanes-irma-harvey-maria.html\"><b>The 2017 Hurricane Season Really Is More Intense Than Normal<\/b><\/a> (NY Times):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">It was only 25 days ago that Hurricane Harvey made landfall. You could be forgiven for thinking it&#8217;s been longer. After all, that was four hurricanes ago&#8230;&#8221;We&#8217;ve had more than a year&#8217;s worth of named storms when you look at the long-term average, and that&#8217;s being just past the midpoint of the season.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/19\/us\/hurricane-rapid-intensification\/index.html\"><b>&#8216;Rapid intensification&#8217; fuels major Atlantic hurricanes in 2017<\/b><\/a> (CNN):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">The process, known as &#8220;rapid intensification,&#8221; has happened four times in the last month with hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and now Maria. A normal year would only see around two storms rapidly intensify. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khayhoe\/status\/910223689827995649\"><strong>Climate Scientist Katherine Hayhoe<\/strong><\/a> (Twitter):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Tropical cyclones (incl hurricanes) now intensify from 118 km\/h (74 mph) to 192 km\/h (120 mph) nearly 9 hrs faster than they did 25 yrs ago.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Mexico rocked by 2nd major earthquake in 2 weeks:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1082075\/mexico-city-earthquake-assessing-the-damage-of-the-7-1-magnitude-tremor\/\"><b>A 7.1-magnitude quake shook Mexico City on the anniversary of the deadliest tremor in its history<\/b><\/a> (Quartz)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/20\/americas\/mexico-two-earthquakes-in-one-month\/index.html\"><b>Mexico had two major earthquakes this month. Here&#8217;s why<\/b><\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/how-mexico-citys-unique-geology-makes-earthquakes-even-worse-180964972\/\"><b>How Mexico City&#8217;s Unique Geology Makes Deadly Earthquakes Even Worse<\/b><\/a> (Smithsonian)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/mexico-americas\/la-fg-mexico-earthquake-buildings-20170920-story.html\"><b>Mexico City residents whose buildings survived the 1985 quake thought they&#8217;d be safe in the next big one. They were wrong<\/b><\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-41332012\"><b>Mexico earthquake: Why did only some buildings collapse?<\/b><\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>French President Macron takes the lead, rallies UN on climate action:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2017\/09\/19\/live-french-president-emmanuel-macron-speaks-before-the-united-nations-general\"><b>VIDEO: Macron pushes global climate change action solidarity in UN address<\/b><\/a> [<i>at ~18:00 minutes]<\/i> (EuroNews)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/politics\/paris-agreement-trump-macron-climate-deal-renogotiated-france-says-no-a7956036.html\"><b>Paris agreement: Macron says climate deal will not be renegotiated despite Trump&#8217;s demands<\/b><\/a> (Independent UK):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">French President says &#8216;door will always remain open&#8217; for America to re-join<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1081642\/unga-2017-emmanuel-macrons-un-speech-presented-him-as-the-anti-trump-and-leader-of-liberalism\/\"><b>Macron&#8217;s speech at the UN was the opposite of Trump&#8217;s in almost every way<\/b><\/a> (Quartz)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/minutes\/144850\/world-might-fine-us-leaving-paris-agreement\"><b>The world might fine the U.S. for leaving the Paris agreement. <\/b><\/a> (The New Republic)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/nicaragua-to-join-paris-climate-agreement-eba6807ed359\/\"><b>U.S. and Syria are now the only nations that don&#8217;t support the Paris climate agreement<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>States takes the lead on US climate action:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate-week-cities-states-d2e0ebcfa58d\/\"><b>As Trump doubles down on leaving Paris agreement, cities and states recommit to climate action<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Climate Week gets underway with local leaders vowing to move forward with or without the Trump administration.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/21092017\/states-paris-trump-climate-change-alliance-leadership-jerry-brown-cuomo-inslee-nrdc-2050\"><b>14 States: We&#8217;re on Track to Meet Paris Climate Goals, Despite Trump<\/b><\/a> (Inside Climate News)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/18\/climate\/climate-change-unga-governors.html?mcubz=1\"><b>U.S. Governors at U.N. Assembly: &#8216;You Have Allies&#8217; on Climate Change<\/b><\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2017\/09\/18\/jerry-browns-climate-coalition-grows-39-global-economy\/\"><b>Jerry Brown&#8217;s climate coalition now covers 39% of the global economy <\/b><\/a> (Climate Home)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Major cities sue fossil fuel industry for climate damages:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/san-francisco-and-oakland-sue-top-five-oil-and-gas-companies-over-costs-of-climate-change-300522988.html\"><b>San Francisco and Oakland sue top five oil and gas companies over costs of climate change<\/b><\/a> (City Attorney of San Francisco):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Companies knew for decades that their products caused climate change and posed &#8216;catastrophic&#8217; risk, but misled the public and continued to make enormous profits<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/amp\/San-Francisco-Oakland-sue-major-oil-companies-12215044.php\"><b>San Francisco, Oakland sue major oil companies over rising seas<\/b><\/a> (SF Gate)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/bay-area-sues-oil-companies-c34222138f6a\/\"><b>Two major cities demand fossil fuel companies pay for climate damages<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">The cities are asking fossil fuel producers to pay into a fund that would be used to pay for current and future damages associated with sea level rise. The litigation mirrors lawsuits brought earlier in the summer by two California counties&#8230;and signals a growing movement of cities attempting to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their contribution to climate change through the courts..<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\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<p><i>For a comprehensive roundup of daily environmental news you can trust, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sej.org\/headlines\/list\">Society of Environmental Journalists&#8217; Daily Headlines<\/a> page<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate-scientists-rise-in-super-hurricanes-4596dfb294ee\/\"><b>Deniers dismiss link between climate change, super-hurricanes as &#8216;idle chatter.&#8217; It&#8217;s anything but.<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Climate scientists predicted the rise in storms like Maria, Irma, and Harvey.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2017\/09\/20\/hurricane-irma-may-speed-the-end-of-orange-juice-americas-biggest-source-of-fruit\/?tid=pm_business_pop&#038;utm_term=.4ee1f49860a9\"><b>Hurricane Irma may speed the end of orange juice, America&#8217;s biggest source of &#8216;fruit&#8217;<\/b><\/a> (Washington Post):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">&#8220;Significant is not the right word,&#8221; said Shannon Shepp, the executive director of the growers&#8217; group Florida Department of Citrus, describing the damage to Florida&#8217;s orange juice industry. &#8220;It&#8217;s somewhere between significant and catastrophic. And that&#8217;s a big word &#8211; I don&#8217;t use it lightly.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/electric-cars-crushing-fuel-cell-vehicles-2764a2d55117\/\"><b>Don&#8217;t believe the hype: Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have flopped with drivers<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Stunning chart shows electric cars are crushing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-09-19\/exxon-mobil-s-futuristic-fuelcell-carbon-capture-just-might-work?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Issue:%202017-09-20%20Utility%20Dive%20Newsletter%20%5Bissue:12091%5D&#038;utm_term=Utility%20\"><b>Exxon Mobil&#8217;s Futuristic FuelCell Carbon Capture Just Might Work<\/b><\/a> (Bloomberg)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/class-action-lawsuit-targets-fpl-hurricane-irma-recovery\/505315\/\"><b>Class action lawsuit targets FPL, Hurricane Irma recovery<\/b><\/a> (Utility Dive)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/what-californias-heat-wave-revealed-about-demand-response\/505186\/\"><b>What California&#8217;s heat wave revealed about demand response<\/b><\/a> (Utility Dive)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/19092017\/electric-cars-ev100-coalition-charging-fleet-ikea-dhl?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Issue:%202017-09-20%20Utility%20Dive%20Newsletter%20%5Bissue:12091%5D&#038;utm_term=Utility%20Dive\"><b>10 Giant Companies Commit to Electric Vehicles, Sending Auto Industry a Message<\/b><\/a> (Inside Cliamte News)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/soapbox\/article174165436.html\"><b>More logging on public lands means more wildfires<\/b><\/a> (Sacramento Bee)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2017\/09\/20\/how-much-fuel-does-it-take-to-power-the-world\/#129d10b716d9\"><b>How Much Fuel Does It Take To Power The World?<\/b><\/a> (Forbes)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/paloma\/the-energy-202\/2017\/09\/20\/the-energy-202-congress-want-to-fix-firefighting-in-federal-forests-but-it-can-t-agree-on-how\/59c1616530fb045176650d47\/?utm_term=.b6379839950e\"><b>Hurricanes are dominating the news. But forest fires are raging out West.<\/b><\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/at-epa-guarding-the-chief-pulls-agents-from-pursuing-environmental-crimes\/2017\/09\/19\/7b7b8b6c-9ce0-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?tid=ss_tw&#038;utm_term=.94ade23850da\"><b>Guarding the EPA Chief Pulls Agents From Pursuing Environmental Crimes<\/b><\/a> (Washington Post<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-pol-ca-xavier-becerra-trump-wall-lawsuit-20170920-story.html\"><b>California Sues Trump Over Environmental Waivers for Border Wall<\/b><\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/watchdog\/ct-flame-retardants-banned-cpsc-met-20170920-story.html\"><b>CPSC Votes To Warn Public on Flame Retardants In Baby Products, Furniture<\/b><\/a> (Chicago Tribune)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/agenda\/story\/2017\/09\/13\/food-nutrients-carbon-dioxide-000511\"><b>The great nutrient collapse: The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat<\/b><\/a> (Politico):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Could carbon dioxide have an effect on human health we haven&#8217;t accounted for yet? The answer appears to be yes&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2017\/07\/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html\"><b>The Uninhabitable Earth: When will climate change make earth too hot for humans?<\/b><\/a> (New York Magazine):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak &#8211; sooner than you think.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/energy-and-environment\/2017\/4\/4\/14942764\/100-renewable-energy-debate\"><b>A beginner&#8217;s guide to the debate over 100% renewable energy<\/b><\/a> (Vox):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Clean-energy enthusiasts frequently claim that we can go bigger, that it&#8217;s possible for the whole world to run on renewables &#8211; we merely lack the &#8220;political will.&#8221; So, is it true? Do we know how get to an all-renewables system? Not yet. Not really.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/10\/4\/13118594\/2-degrees-no-more-fossil-fuels\"><b>No country on Earth is taking the 2 degree climate target seriously<\/b><\/a> (Vox):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">If we mean what we say, no more new fossil fuels, anywhere.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr width=\"50%\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE on Climate Science and Climate Change, go to our<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?page_id=10012\"><strong><i>Green News Report: Essential Background Page<\/i><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<li><b>NASA Video: If we don&#8217;t act, here&#8217;s what to expect in the next 100 years:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=39cBqY1sszY&#038;feature=c4-overview&#038;list=UUAY-SMFNfynqz1bdoaV8BeQ\"><b>NASA climate change video: This is the U.S. in 2100<\/b><\/a> (NASA).<\/li>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/39cBqY1sszY?list=UUAY-SMFNfynqz1bdoaV8BeQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!&#8230;(Or use &#8220;Click here to listen&#8230;&#8221; link below.) 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