‘Green News Report’ – July 17, 2025
With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen…
IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Summer of Floods continues with deadly flash flooding in the Northeast; NASA analysis finds a dramatic increase in the severity of extreme weather events in the U.S.; PLUS: Trump Defense Department cuts off access to satellites used for hurricane forecasting… All that and more in today’s Green News Report!
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IN ‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’ (see links below): Power prices projected to soar under new tax cut and spending law; Amid politics, research on harmful health impacts of wildfire smoke piles up; Trump hails $90 billion push to make Pennsylvania a natural gas hub; OSHA just reduced the value of a worker’s life; Texas failed to spend millions in federal aid for disaster protection… PLUS: The nightmare mess left by one closed paper pulp mill… and much, MUCH more! …
STORIES DISCUSSED ON TODAY’S ‘GREEN NEWS REPORT’…
- Northeast hammered with record rainfall, deadly flash floods:
- Yes, the U.S. is seeing abnormal rainfall this year:
- NASA data show dramatic increase in severity and frequency of extreme weather:
- NASA data reveals dramatic rise in intensity of weather events (Guardian):
The steepness of the rise was not foreseen. The researchers say they are amazed and alarmed by the latest figures from the watchful eye of NASA’s Grace satellite, which tracks environmental changes in the planet. They say climate change is the most likely cause of the apparent trend, even though the intensity of extremes appears to have soared even faster than global temperatures.
A Met Office expert said increases in extremes have long been predicted but are now being seen in reality. He warned that people were unprepared for such weather events, which would be outside previous experience. - No, cloud seeding is not behind extreme rainfall around the U.S.:
- Commerce Dept. halts NOAA flood prediction tool for communities:
- NOAA was developing a tool to help communities prepare for future rainfall. Trump officials stopped it. (Washington Post):
The Commerce Department has indefinitely suspended work on a tool to help communities predict how rising global temperatures will alter the frequency of extreme rainfall, according to three current and former federal officials familiar with the decision, a move that experts said will make the country more vulnerable to storms supercharged by climate change…The release of Atlas 15 had been long awaited by civil engineers, regional planners and other groups that use NOAA’s precipitation frequency estimates to develop regulations and design infrastructure
- Defense Dept. cancels access to 3 key weather satellites:
‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’ (Stuff we didn’t have time for in today’s audio report)…
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