KPFA - A Rude Awakening

On today’s show, the Center for Climate Integrity has released a new report titled “The Fraud of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas: How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution”.  I’ll speak with the report’s authors, investigative journalists Rebecca Leber and Rebecca John, about how the oil and gas industry helped build the image of natural gas as clean and climate-friendly — despite decades of evidence about air pollution, methane emissions, and climate harm.

Rebecca John on “A Rude Awakening” January 2025:

WSPA Knew

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This is a rebroadcast of May 1, 2026 A Rude Awakening featuring Maurice Carney, Kailea Rose Loften and Kate Rose Weiner.

On today’s show, part two of my conversation with Maurice Carney, executive director of Friends of the Congo.  We’ll switch gears and speak to Kailea Rose Loften and Kate Rose Weiner of Loam Publishing about their latest publication entitled, “Compassion in Crisis: Building Disaster-Resilient Communities”.

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On today’s show, we bring you three urgent climate and environmental justice stories. Talia Nimmer of the Center for Biological Diversity shares the latest on Sable Offshore Drilling’s push to acquire public and private land in Santa Barbara, California. Woody Hastings of The Climate Center previews a free public webinar on the need for clear guidelines in the transportation fuel transition. And Harjeet Singh, Global Convenor of the “Fill The Fund” campaign, joins us for a powerful conversation on loss and damage.

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On today’s show, I spend the hour with the executive director of Vote Solar, Sachu Constantine discussing how solar, batteries and distributed energy resources are reshaping the U.S. power system and DSGS, the Demand Side Grid Support program.

Latest article written by Sachu Constantine:

https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/opinion-california-built-the-world-s-largest-community-power-network-why-dismantle-it-now/article_bb776b29-d5c5-45ab-85ec-589779fdac6d.html

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On today’s show, I’ll speak to senior policy and campaign manager for Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Faraz Rizvi about the legislation, SB 1259, moving through committee in Sacramento to protect Californians from the fossil fuel industry’s price gouging at the pump via artificial intelligence to paying the cost for remediation of oil wells.  We’ll switch gears and hear from friend of the show, Dr. Leslie Joseph, professor of civil engineering at Liberty University to get his take on the impact of data centers.  Then we’ll close out the show with Greenpeace documentarian Katie Camosy on her latest endeavor entitled, “Gaslit” starring activist and actor Jane Fonda which makes it Bay Area debut at the Landmark Piedmont theaters  July 15th.

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On today’s show, the Center for Biological Diversity has sued the Trump Department of Agriculture for more information about the origins of an executive order in favor of the deadly pesticide glyphosate.  I’ll speak to Ivan Ditmars associate attorney at CBD’s Government Affairs Program.  US Right to Know’s co-founder and managing editor Stacy Malkan will weigh in as well.  We’ll switch gears and hear from Dr. Elizabeth Koebele of University of Nevada Reno on the mitigation of droughts courtesy of SciLine.

Supreme Court Decision In Favor of Monsanto-Bayer 2026:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1068_n7ip.pdf

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On today’s show, San Francisco Bayview Hunters Point Shipyard is still a superfund site and still poisoning the residents.  We’ll start the hour with Arieann Harrison and Malik Washington of the Marie Harrison Community Foundation and Bradley Angel of Green Action for Health and Environmental Justice.  Then the exhaustive, bombshell reporting by investigative journalist Greg Schwartz.  His latest piece in Counterpunch is entitled, “The Gaslighting of San Francisco at the Hunters Point Shipyard”.

Click Here:  June 24, 2026 Call to Action for Bayview Hunters Point

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On today’s show, Asian Pacific Environmental Network’s new report uncovers how CA taxpayers might be footing the bill for the clean up and remediation cost of Phillips 66’s Carson refinery in Southern CA.  I’ll speak to APEN organizing director Seng So.  We’ll switch gears and speak to Wayne Pacelle, founder and executive director of Animal Wellness Action and Center for a Humane Economy on their latest rescue from Ridglan Farms laboratory-animal supplier, beagles. 

Timber Scheme Against the Owls of the Pacific Northwest:

https://animalwellnessaction.org/court-clash-with-fws-over-unworkable-inhumane-scheme-to-kill-american-forest-owls/

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On today’s show, an update on the feral cows roaming the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico, I speak to Todd Schulke of Center for Biological Diversity, we’ll switch gears and speak to Liberty University’s Dr. Leslie Joseph about the affects of war on the environment; and close it out with friend of the show Media Matters for America Evlondo Cooper on the latest numbers behind the lack of environmental justice coverage in corporate media.

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On today’s show,  Hollin Kretzmann of Center for Biological Diversity gives an update on Assembly Bill 2461 – the Oil Well Cleanup Accountability bill, Jaime Court of Consumer Watchdog gives a rundown of all the candidates running for insurance commissioner of CA; and May Khosla of Sonoma County Climate Activist Network introduces the coalition to the show.

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