The Wednesday, September 25, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features testimony to the Surface Transportation Board by Bill Moyer of Backbone Campaign’s Solutionary Rail project, discussing electrification and public ownership of rail systems that could return freight from trucks to trains and reduce pollution, accidents, and road damages.  We also share news and reflections on the September Equinox Sun crossing of the equator, Eighth Panhandle Paddle protests of railroaded fossil fuels and infrastructure, GTN Xpress methane gas pipeline expansion construction at two possibly radioactive Northwest compressor stations, transportation plans for Hanford liquid nuclear waste through Spokane, Idaho, and beyond, restart of the disastrous Three Mile Island nuclear plant for Microsoft data center power, postponed General Motors investments and indigenous commemoration of massacred ancestors at a Nevada lithium mine, a proposed nationwide week without driving, a fundraiser for an attorney who successfully challenged Chevron contamination of Amazon lands and peoples, and increases in climate lawsuits filed against fossil fuel companies.  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 →