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-Climate scientist Michael E. Mann wins more than $1mn in damages in defamation case -20% of the world’s migrating animals could be extinct due to human activities -The EU on rejects a plan to cut back reliance on pesticides in agriculture -The Oil Industry Knew About Its Role in Climate Change since 1954 -Devastating wildfires tear across large parts of Chile leaving widespread destruction -The U.S. announces new funding for electric vehicle charging stations -Louisiana Govenor fills state environmental posts with fossil fuel executives -The world surpassed a key warming threshold for the first time on record.

I speak with Roishetta Ozane, one of the leaders of the effort to stop the build-out of LNG (liquefied natural gas) export terminals in Louisiana and Texas.

Growing "climate crisis" is fundamentally a human behavioral crisis European countries technological advances, won't limit global heating to 1.5°. Greenlandic mainland is rising faster than sea levels United States’ planet-overheating gas emissions dropped by 1.9% in 2023 Saudi Aramco call off plans to expand its oil output, First-ever white rhinoceros pregnancy using in vitro fertilization. United States Postal Service to install electric vehicle charging stations nationwide

* Preventing a Wider Middle East War linked to Ending Israel's Brutal War in Gaza; Medea Benjamin, Co-founder Code Pink Women For Peace; Producer: Scott Harris. * Biden Pause on Approving LNG Export Terminals, Won’t Solve Frontline Communities’ Health Hazards; Roishetta Ozane is the founder and CEO of the Vessel Project in southwestern Louisiana; Producer: Melinda Tuhus. * GOP and Far Right Forces Provoking National Emergency at Southern Border; Justin Akers Chacón, author and Professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies San Diego City College; Producer: Scott Harris.

On the February 4, 2024 episode of Mic Check, host Mike Merli is joined by Jose Sandoz, Board Member and 4.5-year resident of Success Village Apartments. Jose discusses the heating crisis at Success Village currently affecting 924 families in Bridgeport and Stratford, and the ways in which he and others have been organizing to try to bring heat back to residents.

I welcome back to DITD Jeff Masters of the Yale Climate Connection. Jeff, worked as a hurricane scientist with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 1986-1990. He has a Ph.D. in air pollution meteorology from the University of Michigan. In 1995, he co-founded the Weather Underground weather channel. On Monday Jan 22nd , a relatively weak atmospheric river, along with favorable winds in the mid-to-upper atmosphere, combined to deliver a deluge to San Diego, with the city seeing 2.73 inches of rainfall in a very short amount of time causing major flooding and destruction of property. Now California is being slammed up and down the coast in the same manner. What's going on?

-Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state Nightmare weather events -Maine record-breaking weather extremes bring disruption, destruction -San Diego has record rains and flash flooding caused by an atmospheric river -Climate change is having a “catastrophic impact” on migratory species, -The courts halt spraying of streptomycin on citrus crops across the US -New Jersey Plans two new offshore wind farms -White House halts all new licenses for LNG export terminals

* International Court of Justice Orders Israel to Prevent Acts of Genocide in Gaza War; Robert L. Herbst, is a civil rights lawyer in New York; Producer: Scott Harris. * Fighting to Reform U.S. Mass Incarceration from Inside the System; Nneka Jones Tapia, managing dir. of justice initiatives at Chicago Beyond, former warden of Chicago’s Cook County Jail; Producer: Melinda Tuhus. * Argentina’s Unions Respond to President Milei’s Extremist Program with General Strike; Pablo Pryluka, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History at Princeton University; Producer: Scott Harris.

Erika K. Wesley, the Executive Director of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County, sits down for a conversation with Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim. They discuss Bridgeport's numerous cultural initiatives and growing status as a city where many artists and other creative professionals choose to live. This interview marks the beginning of a 2024 series in which Erika plans to connect with the mayors of Fairfield's urban communities.

Thursday, January 25, 2024, 12 Noon WPKN 89.5FM www.wpkn.org Host: Duo Dickinson We are in the time of Tear Downs, Again. And yet feel good, virtue signalling, of 8,000 square foot “Green” homes and $80,000 electric cars simultaneously tell us we are being good stewards of our world. The oxymoron of a new millennium’s religion of “sustainability” and the never ending growth in size and cost of the American Home has always been part of our culture. It is so basic as to be be cliche: “It if ain’t broke don’t fix it.” But we tear down endless viable buildings, throwing away all the energy in them, toxic waste and spending the carbon to make all the parts and build the new building. This is nuts, and people have devoted their lives to offering an alternative to our throw away culture. Joe DeRisi created Urbanminers, Klass Armster has created Armster Reclaimed Lumber and John Hiden is part of Mongers Market: they are walking the talk where others cynically market “Green” as a vehicle for profitting from our hu

Jason Stanley: If Re-Elected, Trump Vows Fascist Regime from Day One Morgan Fox: Although Federal Agencies Recommend Changes to Marijuana Classification, Major Reforms Unlikely Carrie Baker: U.S. Courts Uphold States’ Extremist Abortion Laws Endangering Lives Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary • Somalia attempts to nullify Ethiopia’s Red Sea port plan • Most states don't warn about "forever chemicals" in fish • Los Angeles landlords forcing rent-stabilized dwellers out

Former UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk: Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Has Now Killed 25,000 Palestinians Climate Defiance organizer Maxwell Downing: Direct Action Climate Group Targets Retiring Sen, Joe Manchin as “Climate Super Villain” Stand Up America's Tishan Weerasooriya: Supreme Court Poised to Decimate Federal Regulations on Pollution, Climate, Public Health Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • 4 ways to ease Cuba's humanitarian crisis • NYPD faces backlash as it plans to encrypt radio communications • Labor law violations federal investigations fall to record low

Former UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk: Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Has Now Killed 25,000 Palestinians Climate Defiance organizer Maxwell Downing: Direct Action Climate Group Targets Retiring Sen. Joe Manchin as “Climate Super Villain” Stand Up America's Tishan Weerasooriya: Supreme Court Poised to Decimate Federal Regulations on Pollution, Climate, Public Health Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • 4 ways to ease Cuba's humanitarian crisis • NYPD faces backlash as it plans to encrypt radio communications • Labor law violations federal investigations fall to record low

My guest now is Raju Rajan. Raju describes himself as a technologist with a strong communitarian ethic. Raju is one of the founders of ReWild Long Island and currently serves as Board President. Raju is an avid gardener and amateur tree-enthusiast, he also owns and manages a small agroforest in India dedicated to rewilding and permaculture. ReWild Long Island is accepting applications from community groups to join their ReWild LI Gardens program.

I'd like to welcome in here to digging in the dirt, my friend Joe Magazzi, president of Green Earth Ag And Turf a company that is a leader in wholesale distribution of organic products for plants, trees and turf with thirteen years of experience and expertise in the green industries. Their motto is All we do are organics. He's here to talk about his First annual Green Earth Ag & Turf Webinar dedicated to teaching more natural and organic application programs and promoting sustainability.

-EPA will have 1 Billion to clean-up the Great Lakes -U.S. plans to conserve and steward old-growth forests on national forests -Miami septic tanks leaking Nutrients and fecal bacteria -California to enforce laws on over-pumping of groundwater -The Bering snow crab season will be closed for 2023-2024 -Egyptian government approves incentives for green hydrogen projects -It's official 2023 was Earth’s warmest year in a century and a half

-Blinken says Healthy soil is increasingly an issue of national security -Federal rule will force crack down on methane gas emissions -One of the largest coal plants to be be replaced by the nation’s biggest solar farm -Kashmir India’s mountains having snowless winter -India to achieve 65 percent of its power capacity from non- fossil-fuel sources -US Department of Defense will install rooftop solar on the Pentagon

The January 21, 2024 episode of Mic Check was a re-broadcast of host Mike Merli's January 1 interview with Mahmoud Abbas, a Palestinian activist based right here in Connecticut. Mahmoud shares his story, and speaks as an organizer with Bridgeport for Ceasefire, a diverse and inclusive grassroots campaign, led by local Palestinians and Muslims, that organized for a Ceasefire Resolution at the municipal level here in Bridgeport. The resolution was conceived by, and put forth by, City Council Member Jazmarie Melendez, whose community organizing and activism began six years ago, when she and her family suffered a very personal tragedy and injustice. On May 9, 2017, her 15 year-old brother Jayson Negron was shot and killed by Bridgeport Police. Having that first-hand experience of being directly impacted by state violence, Jazmarie powerfully decided she wanted her first official act as a Bridgeport City Council Member to be putting forth a Ceasefire Resolution in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and

Michael Zweig, economist, labor historian and author of the just released book "Race, Class and Gender -- Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism," discusses the momentous labor action in 2023 and offers his forecast for labor in 2024. Interview by Richard Hill

The Resistance panel interviews India Walton, the Black woman who rocked the political establishment in Buffalo, NY, when she beat the centrist mayor in that city's primary. She is currently an activist and writer with Roots Action (www.rootsaction.org), a progressive advocacy and action group. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill