Climate Justice Forum: Supreme Court Wetlands Ruling, Anti-Fossil Fuels Actions, Montana Climate & Asphalt Plant Cases, Debt Ceiling Pipeline Approval, Canada Wildfires & Industry Spills 5-31-23


The Wednesday, May 31, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on a U.S. Supreme Court decision that weakens Clean Water Act wetlands protections, the End the Era of Fossil Fuels national week of actions, a Montana youth climate court case against state government, opposition to a Montana gravel mine and asphalt plant on the Flathead reservation, national debt ceiling compromise legislation that approves all Mountain Valley gas pipeline permits, Alberta wildfires, evacuations, and Kearl tar sands tailings pond leaks impacting indigenous communities, and Coastal GasLink pipeline sediment spills into First Nations waters in British Columbia.  Broadcast for eleven years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuel projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.

WIRT Song: The Tide Is Rising, 2013 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Supreme Court Weakens Clean Water Act Protections, May 25, 2023 Earthjustice

Supremes Declare War on Wetlands, May 29, 2023 Counterpunch

Join the End the Era of Fossil Fuels National Week of Action, May 23, 2023 People vs. Fossil Fuels (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

End the Era of Fossil Fuels Montana, 2023 350 Montana

End the Era of Fossil Fuels – Seattle, 2023 350 Seattle and Extinction Rebellion Seattle

Youth v. Gov Montana, 2023 Our Children’s Trust

Please help spread the word about this potentially disastrous local mining project…, May 31, 2023 Protect The Sacred – Western Montana

Urgent: Calls Needed – Oppose Debt Ceiling Poison Pills!, May 30, 2023 People vs. Fossil Fuels (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Debt Ceiling Deal Includes Surprise Approval of Natural Gas Pipeline Championed by Manchin, May 28, 2023 Politico

Northern Alberta Community of Fort Chipewyan Evacuated Due to Wildfire, May 31, 2023 Town and Country Today/Canadian Press

Anger, Fear, and Questions Mark a Meeting in Fort Chipewyan with Imperial Oil, March 24, 2023 Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

Sediment in Wedzwin’kwa!, May 25, 2023 Gidim’ten (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

‘Heartbreaking’: An Overhead View of Coastal GasLink Sediment Spills into Wet’suwet’en Waters, Wetlands, May 23, 2023 Narwhal

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