The Wednesday, September 6, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Nobel laureate Al Gore talking about global solutions and fossil fuel industry political and financial obstacles to the environmental and climate crisis.  We also share news, videos, and reflections on an Oregon oil ship blockade and Portland city government compromises enabling the Zenith Energy oil train terminal, inland Northwest gas pipeline expansion eastbound profits and protests, a British Columbia medical community call for a moratorium on methane gas development causing increased wildfires and illness, state of California endorsement of a fossil fuels non-proliferation treaty, and federal agency suspension of a Trump administration rule allowing liquefied natural gas rail transport.  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 fuel 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, August 30, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on unaddressed toxic emissions from southwest Idaho gas facilities, the one-year anniversary of suspended wetland damage permits for an Idaho highway expansion, a Spokane totem pole journey stop and blessing honoring Leonard Peltier, north Idaho rain relief from regional wildfires and a filed objection to a winter recreation vehicle forest plan, eastern Idaho meetings on potential nuclear waste storage, coastal dangers and Seattle protests of Japan release of Fukushima radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean, Washington rules to protect refinery workers and communities, New York City and nationwide climate marches to end fossil fuels, and a proposed sulfide mine and water protector trials around the Minnesota Line 3 tar sands pipeline.  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 fuel 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, August 23, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on Idaho highway construction delayed by deficient state permit applications, swiftly large wildfires, evacuations, and states of emergency in eastern Washington and north Idaho near a federally postponed gas pipeline expansion, regulator rejection of a railroad request to stop forced coal transportation, a refiled Oregon biofuel refinery rail yard application, a newly operational solar power project in Montana, and lawsuits challenging Nevada lithium mining cases against water protectors and denouncing Alaska LNG export approval.  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 fuel 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, August 16, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, videos, and reflections on the tenth anniversary of Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) blockades of tar sands megaloads in their Idaho reservation and wildlands, an Idaho women’s symposium on legislative threats to reproductive health, BNSF Railway completion and traffic on its two-way, double tracks and second bridges on Lake Pend Oreille, a north Idaho gas pipeline rupture and reburied exposure under a river, wildfires and evacuations in small cities, near a gas compressor station planned for expansion, and within a massive, litigated, proposed logging project in lakeside mountains, Oregon opposition to Northwest gas pipeline expansion, protests and arrests at a Washington nuclear submarine base and Appalachian pipeline work site, and federal court decisions denying attorney fee recovery to Idaho gas well drilling proponents and affirming Montana youth constitutional rights to state climate action.  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 fuel 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, August 9, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features speakers at the February 13 People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, hosted by a Northwest coalition to gather testimony from community members threatened by Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline expansion.  We also share news, videos, and reflections on the dangerously leaking Hanford nuclear weapon production site in Washington, the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan and the deadly legacy of Oppenheimer and nuclear energy for indigenous peoples, BNSF Railway completion of its north Idaho double tracks and second bridges, federal and state agency application of toxic herbicides in Lake Pend Oreille, and a wildfire in a massive, litigated, logging project in lakeside mountains.  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 fuel 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, August 2, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on the seventh annual Kalispel and allied tribal canoe journey, successful delay of a federal decision on an unsafe Northwest pipeline expansion after a fiery Virginia gas line explosion and public and political pressure, calls to frontline defense camps opposing Appalachia and British Columbia gas pipeline construction, actions dissuading bank loans for an Atlanta cop training facility, a deadly north Idaho train and vehicle collision, widespread downstream fossil fuels contamination from a Yellowstone River bridge derailment, spike sabotaged North Carolina railroad tracks, Congressional spending bill obstacles to Idaho wind energy, August blue super moons, and Irish uprising ballads.  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 fuel 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, July 26, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features speakers at the February 13 People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, hosted by a Northwest coalition to gather testimony from community members threatened by Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline expansion.  We also share news and reflections on a TC Energy pipeline explosion and fire in Virginia, GTN Xpress contradictions with West Coast state emissions reduction laws, and actions in Portland and Washington, D.C. opposing July 27 GTN Xpress approval and protesting corroded Mountain Valley pipeline construction.  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 fuel 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, July 19, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features some lead speakers at the February 13 People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, hosted by a Northwest coalition to gather testimony from community members threatened by Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline expansion.  We also share news, interviews, and reflections on Boise, Idaho, goals for reduced carbon emissions, a weeks-long, southern U.S., climate crisis heat dome, a Union Pacific Railroad push for one-person crews with support trucks, a proposed federal rule requiring hazmat information provision to fire and first responders, delayed town reconstruction, lawsuits, and unreleased reports on a suspected train-caused, British Columbia wildfire, and Canadian government failure to respond to First Nation claims of human rights violations.  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 fuel 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, July 12, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on current and contested Highway 95 construction on Paradise Ridge, recent Stop Oil Trains actions and workshop information, and possible BNSF railroad expansion release of lead into Lake Pend Oreille and obstruction of Amtrak passenger train stops in north Idaho, protests and an appeals court order temporarily halting Mountain Valley pipeline installation, historically highest global temperatures in early July, and decades of disinformation and denial of climate scientists’ warnings by oil and gas companies and the U.S. government.  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 fuel 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, July 5, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on the July full supermoon, indigenous resistance, black revolts, and U.S. government counterinsurgency starting with the Declaration of Independence, federal agency killing of park-dwelling Canada geese before July 4 events and training and actions against oil trains and infrastructure in north Idaho, a terminated regional railroad lease, bridge collapse, and asphalt binder spill from a Yellowstone River derailment in Montana, central Oregon opposition to Northwest gas pipeline expansion, coalition resistance to international trade agreement attacks on climate policies, and greater radioactive waste generated by Idaho-tested small modular reactors than by traditional nuclear plants.  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 fuel projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →