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.

Baba Brinkman – “Make It Hot” – Carbon Pricing Rap, December 6, 2015 Baba Brinkman

The Super Harvest Moon Eclipse 2024, September 3, 2024 Time and Date

Eight coal trains crossed western Washington in 22 hours…, September 11, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Non-Unit Train Limits?, September 17, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Rusted Oil Tankers & Mid-Train Buffers, September 14, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Train Derailment in Boulder Destroys Rail Bridge, Injures Two, August 23, 2024 Colorado Sun

Congress Should Empower Regulatory Agencies to Address Challenges Presented by Long Trains, Says New Report, September 17, 2024 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Eighth Panhandle Paddle, September 24, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Construction of New Safer U.S. 95 Section South of Moscow Hits Another Delay – Total Completion Now Set for Next Year, September 6, 2024 Pullman Radio

ITD Says Most of U.S. Highway 95 Construction Finished this Fall, September 18, 2024 Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Idaho Grassroots Organizations Host Rally for Affordable Solar Power, September 11, 2024 Arbiter

The Facts: I-2066 is a Dangerous Initiative that Would Harm Washingtonians, 2024 No I-2066

Trudeau’s Trans Mountain Expansion Hasn’t Delivered Tidewater Benefits, September 11, 2024 DeSmog