The Wednesday, February 21, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on Washington rulemaking and hearings on financial responsibility for pipeline, refinery, and other facility oil spills, a Tacoma demonstration holding city administrators accountable for not protecting environments and communities, ongoing Northwest coalition resistance, an Oregon and Washington federal court challenge, and a TC Energy push to start construction of the GTN Xpress fracked gas pipeline expansion, departure of commissioners and lack of quorum at a federal agency that permits energy transportation projects, a letter to the Biden administration requesting a permanent pause on liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals, and Georgia criminalization of contributors to jailed activist bail funds.  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, 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 →

The Wednesday, February 14, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on an abandoned small modular reactor (SMR) test project for Utah nuclear power at the Idaho National Laboratory, a new English biomass pellet production plant under construction in Washington, an agreement among regional tribes and state and federal governments to replace removed Snake River dam hydroelectric with renewable energy, a predicted increase in Asian methane gas demand and imports, a California protest outside a Chevron refinery linking oil and gas interests to Israel genocide of Palestinians, on-site and solidarity actions against the Mountain Valley gas pipeline in Appalachia, and a report indicating the health and safety risks of plastic drinking water pipes, after an Ohio toxic chemicals derailment.  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, 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 →

The Wednesday, February 7, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features a Guardian report on the community health and policy aftermath during the year since the toxic plastic chemicals train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio.  We also share news, music, and reflections on litigation against a massive, north Idaho, lakeside logging scheme called Buckskin Saddle, a nationwide request for Environmental Protection Agency and White House intervention in federal approval of the GTN Xpress Northwest gas pipeline expansion, global export of Canadian methane through U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, cancelled Washington D.C. protests and further petition opportunities after a Biden administration pause on LNG facility permits, and local and widespread solidarity actions against Mountain Valley methane pipeline construction in Appalachia.  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, 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 →

The Wednesday, January 31, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, videos, and reflections on Israel’s theft of Palestine’s water and oil and gas resources, a historic, international court ruling on South Africa allegations of Israel genocide of Palestinians, a Biden-Harris administration decision to pause permit approvals of fracked, liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, responses of frontline communities, environmental groups, and the Canadian energy industry to the President’s announcement, a possible connection of the GTN Xpress Northwest methane pipeline expansion to Gulf Coast export terminals, and Puget Sound Energy cancellation of a liquefied gas plant expansion in Tacoma.  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, 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 →

The Wednesday, January 24, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Mason Leavitt with Beyond Toxics and Aya Cockram with Fossil Free Eugene, talking about dangerous, toxic emissions from methane gas, kitchen cooking stoves and attempts by gas companies to mislead consumers and lawmakers about “natural” gas health impacts.  We also share news, music, and reflections on the causes and effects of climate change, as discussed by writer David Roberts at a 2012, Evergreen State College presentation, Highway 95 expansion and opposition around Moscow, decreased methane gas supplies and energy conservation requests during severely cold weather in western Washington, Wet’suwet’en court battles against land defense criminal charges and abusive police practices during British Columbia gas pipeline construction, and upcoming Washington, D.C., demonstrations denouncing proposed, Gulf Coast, liquefied methane export facilities.  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, 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 →

The Wednesday, January 17, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Mason Leavitt with Beyond Toxics and Aya Cockram with Fossil Free Eugene, talking about dangerous, toxic emissions from methane gas kitchen cooking stoves and attempts by gas companies to mislead consumers and lawmakers about “natural” gas health impacts.  We also share news, music, and reflections on diminished north Idaho and Northwest fossil fuels and overall train traffic, environmental groups’ case against BNSF Railway-caused, grizzly bear deaths, a publicly opposed, Idaho agency decision reducing credits for rooftop solar power generation, widespread, regional gas outages and pipeline pressure and supply losses during frigid winter weather, upcoming pipeline resistance direct action trainings, a global week of demonstrations against fossil fuels insurers, and a nationwide request for White House council intervention in federal approval of the GTN Xpress gas pipeline expansion.  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 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 →

The Wednesday, January 10, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on two Biden administration arms sales bypassing Congressional approval of Israel genocide of Palestinians, global environmental degradation and emissions of one-third of American greenhouse gases by the U.S. military, leadership of an indigenous delegation to the COP 28 climate conference by Spokane activist and artist Jacob Johns two months after he was shot, Northwest coalition and GTN gas pipeline filings of petitions for appellant court review, a new federal methane rule supporting independent leak detection and mitigation of oil and gas facilities, an Idaho Public Utilities Commission rate decision obstructing equitable rooftop solar power generation, ongoing First Nation resistance and court cases surrounding British Columbia gas pipeline construction, and a national railroad safety law stalled eleven months after a toxic Ohio derailment.  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 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 →

The Wednesday, January 3, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features an Our Changing Climate examination of the historical context and possible role of fossil fuel infrastructure sabotage in the broader climate movement.  We also share news, music, and reflections on federal denial of rehearing petitions objecting to Northwest gas pipeline expansion, the climate and consumer harms of rapidly growing Gulf Coast and U.S. liquefied natural gas exports, 2023 climate accountability lawsuits and record storms, heat, and wildfires prompted by global warming, and voiced 2020 dreams of a repaired, future world inspired by pandemic and uprising lessons.  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 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 →

The Wednesday, December 27, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features a documentary describing oil and gas facility methane releases, ineffective state regulation, and environmental watchdog opposition in the Texas Permian Basin, the largest greenhouse gas generator on Earth.  We also share news, music, and reflections on regional military and double-long coal trains, denial of rehearing petitions objecting to federal approval of Northwest gas pipeline expansion, a request for White House council intervention in this decision, possible charges against a Washington landowner involved in a gas line rupture, an Oregon appeals court ruling invalidating state climate change regulations, a Washington tribes case against six oil companies for their climate deception, and the first full moon of the new solar year.  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 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 →

The Wednesday, December 20, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Last Week Tonight comedian host John Oliver discussing dangerous, obstructive, freight trains and railway company policies favoring profits over worker and trackside community safety.  We also share news, music, and reflections on global solidarity against Israeli government genocide of Palestinians, the northern hemisphere winter solstice, an Idaho military supply train and Washington vehicle collisions with fossil fuels trains, excessive police force at a massive protest of Atlanta cop training facility construction, a Northwest gas pipeline expansion among climate emergencies and nationwide growth of pipelines under-monitored by a federal agency, and a Congressional push to reform the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.  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 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 →