'Green News Report' at 15

Thoughts on 15 yrs of the longest-running program on our public airwaves focused on connecting critical climate change dots with environmental news, politics, analysis (& a helpful dose of snarky comment!) bradblog.com/?p=14951

Austin Texas sounds like an Eastern European city that just overthrew a dictator

Talarico: "We just took back Texas. We just proved that all the money in the world is no match for the people of Texas."

And here's @WhitneyCWimbish on the enormous victories for candidates running on fixing health care. "It’s been 50 years since there was a Democrat in the Senate who was a doctor."
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Governor elect @RobSandIA (D-IA) gives remarks following victory in Iowa: "More than anything else, Iowans voted for change, they voted for checks and balances, and they voted to bring transparency and accountability back to state government."

You thought it was a bad night for Republicans? Take a look at data centers.

In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed among the possessions of William Peek, a white man in Crawfordville.

More than a century and a half later, Sheppard’s great-great-granddaughter has been elected governor of Georgia.
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As you catch up on Annie Andrews: she had a really interesting health platform, with items like ending prior authorization, banning private equity firms from owning hospitals, shutting down the gaming of Medicare Advantage and more.
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Here's that moment:

Michigan's first-of-a-kind proposal to ban monopoly utilities from making campaign contributions is soaring, fueled by populist outrage at rate increases and utilities' obscene political spending. Extremely early but this is coming in from red and very blue counties alike.

BREAKING: Shelia Edwards has won a seat on Georgia’s Public Service Commission. Her win is a step toward lower electricity bills and ensuring Big Tech pays its fair share for the power it uses.

@JayInslee on Trump's choice to side with Big Oil and attack wind and solar: At a time when families need relief from rising energy costs, doubling down on fossil fuels means sidelining one of our biggest tools to make energy cheaper.

"If the president does try to get through the pearly gates, he's gonna have a long list of things he's gonna have to explain, and perhaps the worst one is the fact that he has used emergency assistance as a political cudgel." —@JayInslee

Main Topic: Climate Is on the Ballot Today in the U.S. Via @guardian
On The Extreme Temperature Diary TUE 11/03/2026
At: guyonclimate.com
+ #climate #weather and record temp reports
@KHayhoe @BrianMcHugh2011 @DoctorVive @GabeFilippelli @BMcNoldy @SenSanders

🚨Deadly flash flood emergencies strike Florida, US Southwest
🛢️Energy costs top of mind for voters in the midterm elections
💲Heating oil prices have jumped 73%
🤑Record profits for Big Oil, thanks to Trump’s Iran War…
Our new @GreenNewsReport
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"In two years, I've never seen a country go down so far so fast."

I asked unhappy Trump 2024 voters whether their 2026 votes were pro-Democrat or just anti-Republican… Almost all said they cast an anti-Republican vote.

I spoke more with @JohnBerman on this Election Day.

🚨Deadly flash flood emergencies strike Florida, US Southwest
🛢️Energy costs top of mind for voters in the midterm elections
💲Heating oil prices have jumped 73%
🤑Record profits for Big Oil, thanks to Trump’s Iran War…
Our new @GreenNewsReport
LISTEN: bradblog.com/?p=20284

Chevron, Exxon and Shell made over $36 billion in profit this quarter.

As I told @NPR, the worst of times for most of us are the best of times for the oil companies.

That’s why we need a permanent windfall tax.

🔗 Read more at the link below.

We found the first evidence in Ohio consistent with fracking wastewater polluting a family's drinking water. The state denies it, though it did not investigate the nearby injection well that had been pumping 400 million gallons of waste. desmog.com/2026/10/30/ohi…

MUST-WATCH: "Until they drive prices UP... Americans aren't complaining right now that prices are too LOW."

@AbdulElSayed masterfully schools Bari Weiss' CBS News(max) 60 minutes host @Douthat60 on the problem with living in corporatism, not capitalism -where monopolies and me - and the importance of backing politicians who support the ability of labor UNIONS to push back so workers can earn more and live better lives... rather than politicians who are owned by corporations. (ahem, Mike Rogers)

FLORIDA’S EXTRAORDINARY DELUGE 🌧️
Wait for it…
An estimated 1.88 TRILLION gallons of rain in 57 hours across the area shown—enough to cover 145,000 football fields, including end zones, 30 feet deep!

Radar estimates 30 inches near Palm Bay, with multiple torrential rainfall lorida’s east coast. The radar-map area saw more than 2 dozen distinct Flash Flood Warnings, including rare #Florida Flash Flood Emergencies.

The geographic extent and repeated extreme totals make this an extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented, non-tropical #rain #flood event.

A historic El Niño favors wetter Florida weather. Today’s warmer oceans and atmosphere also increase the moisture available to fuel extreme downpours. #elnino