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As Fires Rage Across the West, Trump Bails Out Big Oil & Picks Climate Denier for Top Role at NOAA
As climate-fueled wildfires continue to ravage the West, the Trump administration has tapped a well-known climate change denier for a top position at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. University of Delaware professor David Legates…
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Apocalyptic Wildfires Just a Warning
As these fires continue to blaze, the consensus from experts is clear: the mounting climate crisis is already here and is exacerbating these wildfires, and climate action is needed to stop the harm from getting…
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Colonization Made CA a Tinderbox: Why Indigenous Land Stewardship Would Help Combat Climate Fires
Democracy Now! examines California's history of forest management and how a century of fire suppression has made the current climate fires even more destructive. For thousands of years, Native American tribes in California would regularly…
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Pandemic, Wildfires & Heat Wave: Undocumented Farmworkers Face "Triple Threat" as West Coast Burns
As devastating fires burn across the West Coast, some of the most vulnerable people are farmworkers — many of whom are undocumented. Despite the risks of the pandemic and the climate-fueled fires, many feel they…
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“These Are Climate Fires”: Oregon Firefighter Ecologist Says Devastating Blazes Are a Wake-Up Call
President Trump has said little about the wildfires raging in California, Oregon and Washington for three weeks, other than to suggest poor forest management was primarily to blame. But the states' governors are pushing back…
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Climate Change Turns Skies Red
The skies in California to Oregon are the result of climate change causing the fires, yet the administration denies it. Carbon emissions have reduced during 2020, but the water levels across the world are still…
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“This Is Climate Change”: West Coast Fires Scorch Millions of Acres & Blot Out the Sun
The skies of the Bay Area and Northern California turned a dark orange as 90 major fires burn in the western United States, from San Diego to the Canadian border. At least seven people have…
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The End of Oil? Pandemic Adds to Fossil Fuel Glut, But COVID-19 Relief Money Flows to Oil Industry
As the coronavirus pandemic contributes to a glut of fossil fuels, groups like Greenpeace are calling on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to ban fossil fuel interests from his campaign and administration, if he wins,…
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Hurricane Laura Floods ICE Jails in Louisiana as Asylum Seekers from Cameroon Strike over Conditions
People held in immigration jails in Louisiana report horrific conditions and continued mistreatment after Hurricane Laura devastated the area. Immigrants detained at the LaSalle and Jackson Parish jails say that after the storm, the two…
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Hurricane Laura Leaves Devastation In Louisiana
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Anne Rolfes about Hurricane Laura. Hurricane Laura slammed into Louisiana just as the Republican National Convention was putting on a showcase about President Trump’s agenda. The Category 4 storm was the…
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Hurricane Laura Devastates Gulf Coast, Laying Bare Climate Crisis, Environmental Injustice
Hurricane Laura has slammed ashore as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, bringing sustained winds of 150 miles per hour to the Gulf Coast. The strongest storm to hit Louisiana in over a century, Laura…
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Hurricane Laura Devastates Gulf Coast, Laying Bare Climate Crisis, Environmental Injustice
Hurricane Laura has slammed ashore as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, bringing sustained winds of 150 miles per hour to the Gulf Coast. The strongest storm to hit Louisiana in over a century, Laura…
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Democracy Now! 8-28-20
This is Democracy Now! On today's show : ACLU Demands Resignation of Top Cops in Kenosha for Racism & Brutal Response to Jacob Blake Protests Jacob Blake Shooting Shines New Light on Death of Michael…
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How Indigenous Knowledge Can Inform California’s Wildfires
Sonali Kollhatkar speaks with Ali Meders-Knight about Indigenous knowledge of nature. Massive and devastating wildfires in California have become a summer-time norm and this summer’s out-of-control complex of fires in the northern part of…
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Joe Biden Recommits to Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies
After some confusion, Joe Biden recommits to ending subsidies to fossil fuel companies. David Pakman discusses this re-commitment and some of the hot takes being discussed online and other places about Biden and Harris' true…
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How The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Being Kept On Life Support
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Antonia Juhasz about the slow death of the fossil fuel industry. The Democratic National Committee ahead of its convention puzzlingly dropped its goal to end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry…
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The Grift of Deniers
Barbara Freese, environmental attorney, energy analyst, and author of the book "Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change," joins David Pakman to discuss the grift of…
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Sunrise Movement: Dems Must Address Climate Crisis as DNC Drops Pledge to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The Democratic National Committee has dropped a pledge to eliminate tax breaks and subsidies for the fossil fuel industry from its party platform, after a DNC spokesperson said the amendment was originally included in “error,”…
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Chomsky: Biden Furthest Left Candidate on Climate Ever
Noam Chomsky says that Joe Biden is the furthest left candidate ever on a variety of issues, including climate. David Pakman discusses Chomsky's comment and the backlash he's received from "progressives." The David Pakman Show…
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Is Trump Behind $60 Billion Utility Bribe?
Sixty billion dollar bribe. Energy corruption in Ohio. And, it all leads back to Donald Trump. Are you surprised that Donald Trump is behind the latest energy corruption? Professor Leah Stokes joins Thom Hartmann, to…
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