The Wednesday, September 18, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on increased Washington coal trains during early September, north Idaho oil trains with rusted tankers and mid-train buffer cars and Eighth Panhandle Paddle protests of railroaded fossil fuels and infrastructure, a Colorado derailment that destroyed a bridge and injured workers, an independent report addressing challenges and regulations of longer trains, construction completion of rerouted Highway 95 near Moscow delayed until 2025, a Boise rally demanding affordable solar power, Washington ballot initiative 2066 that would prolong fossil fuel use and impede clean energy transitions, unrealized Asian market profits from the Canada-purchased Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion in British Columbia, and the September super harvest full moon and its eclipse.  Broadcast for twelve 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 at KRFP and the Pacifica Network AudioPort, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuels projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →