Green News Report

'Green News Report' at 15 Thoughts on 15 yrs of the longest-running program on our public airwaves focused on connecting critical climate change dots with environmental news, politics, analysis (& a helpful dose of snarky comment!) bradblog.com/?p=14951

SCOOP, from @jakespring @EPA has drafted a rule to strike down its 'endangerment finding,' which underpins nationwide limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trucks and power plants washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

“Countries that cling to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies, they sabotaging them. Driving up costs. Undermining competitiveness. Locking in stranded assets,” Guterres said. theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…

On Friday, Trump invited corporate polluters to keep causing cancer. Trump is trading a 96% reduction in cancer risk among the most exposed communities for a less than 1% profit increase for plastic manufacturers like Dow, Formosa, BASF, TotalEnergies, and Phillips 66.

🔥⚖️🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳🧑‍⚖️ @CIJ_ICJ International Court of Justice - this ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝🧵Live thread below with context, summary and analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

You wouldn't know from coverage of the "collapsing" home insurance industry that it's very profitable for its executives. Lucrative "performance-linked" pay packages incentivize claim denials & other anti-consumer practices, as @revolvingdoordc & @Public_Citizen explain.

* Another heat dome broils the US + corn sweat * Congressional Dems push to classify extreme heat as a disaster, to free up federal funding * Oregon grapples with mega-fire * U.S. spent nearly $1 trillion on climate damages last year New @GreenNewsReport: bradblog.com/?p=15448

“The clean energy future is no longer a promise. It’s a fact. No government, no industry, no special interest can stop it.” @antonioguterres says we are in the dawn of a new era, where cheap, clean, abundant energy powers rich economic opportunity. un.org/en/climatechan…

“It would not only erase all current limits on greenhouse gas pollution from cars, factories, power plants and other sources. It would prevent future administrations from trying to tackle climate change, with lasting implications” Gift link🎁 nytimes.com/2025/07/22/cli…

Actually, this is how billionaires avoid paying taxes. Loans aren’t taxed, so they borrow money against their assets/net worth & their heirs inherit the untaxed wealth If we ONLY taxed the unrealized gains of the top .1% we’d have MORE than the $13 trillion @SandyDarity…

Time to get smart? There are a growing number of water crises around the world, so it is a global crisis, but one with too many causes all making the situation worse. A big cause is climate change, and another is unsustainable water use. theconversation.com/three-types-of…

I went on a field trip with a 16 year old shelter dog named Jenny. 14/10 @bestwestern #ad

Gerrymandering Expert on Why Dems Unlikely to Counter GOP's New TX Redistricting Scheme: Today's #BradCast Guest: FairVote's @DavidDaley; Also: Johnson to adjourn House for August recess to avoid vote on releasing 'Epstein Files'... FULL STORY, LISTEN: bradblog.com/?p=15449

* U.S. spent nearly $1 trillion on climate damages last year * Another heat dome broils the US + corn sweat * Congressional Dems push to classify extreme heat as a disaster, to free up federal funding * Oregon grapples with mega-fire New @GreenNewsReport: bradblog.com/?p=15448

Pakistan is undergoing a massive solar boom. "Pakistan wasn’t expecting to do this for at least 10 or 20 years," says analyst Muhammad Mustafa Amjad. "It was always supposed to be the U.S. and China first." Read more: bit.ly/3IlDK2r

Hold on ... I thought carbon dioxide was "plant food" wsj.com/articles/extre…

EVs take over slowly, then suddenly. In June: >Norway EVs at 97.7% share of sales >Sweden EVs at 65.3% >Ethiopia EVs at 60% >China EVs at 53% >UK EVs at 35.9% >Germany EVs at 28.4% >France EVs at 24% >Australia EVs at 15% The Age of Electricity is here, move over Age of Oil

It’s like he finally got to the FEMA file

The Bay Is Rising, and Marin’s Most Traveled Roads Are in Its Way “The populations at risk are in some of the most beautiful parts of the county right by the water. It’s like the water wants to reclaim what was once there." @KQEDscience @KQEDnews kqed.org/science/199786…

Main Topic: Autocracies Are Bad for the Climate via @cleantechnica On the Extreme Temperature Diary - TUE 7/22/2025 guyonclimate.com/2025/07/22/ext… +#climate +record temp reports via @extremetemps/ @DoctorVive @BrianMcHugh2011 @MatthewCappucci @BMcNoldy @KHayhoe @GabeFilippelli

It's bad that the White House is banning WSJ from the trip -- but I think the bigger scandal is that the president of the United States and his entourage are flying to Scotland on the public's dime so he can "open a new 18-hole golf course at his resort." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…