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.

September Equinox: Sun to Cross Equator this Weekend, September 19, 2024 Time and Date

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

My D.C. Testimony: The Rail System We Have Versus the Rail System We Need, September 24, 2024 Backbone Campaign (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Freight Shift to Rail Could Save $46 Billion/Year Cutting Pollution, Accidents, and Road Damage, September 19, 2024 Solutionary Rail

Gas Transmission Northwest LLC Submits Biweekly Construction Status Report No. 15 for the Period of 09/06/2024 to 09/19/2024 re the GTN XPress Project under CP22-2, September 23, 2024 Gas Transmission Northwest

Radioactive GTN Compressors & Pump Stations?, September 22, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Transport of Radioactive Liquid Waste from Hanford Site Draws Concern from Spokane, Oregon Officials, September 19, 2024 Spokesman-Review

Shuttered Three Mile Island May be Restarted to Supply Power to Microsoft’s Data Centers, September 20, 2024 Los Angeles Times

Fourth Annual Commemoration of Peehee Mu’huh Massacres, August 30, 2024 Protect Peehee Mu’hu

Hey McDermitt Community!, September 15, 2024 Protect Peehee Mu’huh

General Motors Postpones $330 Million Investment in Thacker Pass Lithium Mine, September 3, 2024 Best Magazine

Week Without Driving, 2024 Week Without Driving

Pardon Donziger, July 25, 2024 Free Donziger/Chuffed.org

New Report: Climate Lawsuits Being Filed against Fossil Fuel Companies have Nearly Tripled, September 12, 2024 Oil Change International