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EcoNews Report — 325 episodes

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RWE is Out. What's Next for Offshore Wind?

2

Get Ready for the Super El Niño

3

Trump’s Plans to Disrupt Dam Removal Get FERC’d

4

Land Back as Conservation

5

Trump Attacks the California Coast

6

Eureka Cops Argue for Safer Streets

7

The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of Abalone with Author Ann Vileisis

8

Fish-killing Chemical Found in Local Water

9

Offshore Wind Port Development

10

Cleaning Up Cannabis

11

Get to Know River Otters!

12

Native Plant Nerds, Unite!

13

Is Your Fish Safe to Eat?

14

Bring Back Our Grizzlies!

15

What's Wrong with the Forest Service?

16

New Threat to Eel River Dam Removal?

17

How Can We Restore the Elk River?

18

A New Mandate for State-Owned Forests?

19

The "God Squad" Returns!

20

The Fight over Richardson Grove, Explain

21

Fix Your Stuff (And Save the Planet)

22

Transmission Upgrades for Offshore Wind

23

Asm. Rogers on this Legislative Session

24

Trump Spikes Climate Regulations

25

Wildlife Crossings Help Wildlife and Motorists

26

Fix Fourth and Fifth Streets in Eureka!

27

Climate Action Theatre

28

Dealing with Eco-Anxiety

29

Poems for a New Year

30

The Temperate Rainforests of North America

31

Local Governments to Finally Take Action on Climate Change?

32

Exploring the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, a Unique California Landscape Just a Few Hours From Humboldt

33

What’s So Special About the Siskiyou Crest?

34

Tell FERC That Eel River Dams Gotta Go!

35

The Water Remembers with Amy Bowers Cordalis

36

Northern Humboldt Indians

37

The Week Without Driving in the Rearview Mirror

38

Assemblymember Connolly Reflects on the Legislative Session

39

Are Your Easter Lilies Poisoning the Smith River?

40

Rethinking High-Severity Fires?

41

You Should Attend the Eel River Community Meeting

42

What Will Humboldt County’s New ‘Dark Skies’ Ordinance Accomplish?

43

New Crosswalk, Who Dis?

44

Talking CEQA Reforms

45

Electrifying Your Home is Cheaper Than You Think It Is, and You Can Find Out About It All at Tuesday’s Electrification Fair

46

The Next Big Step Toward Eel River Dam Removal

47

A Geological Perspective on Last Week’s Quake

48

A New 353-Acre Reserve on Baduwa’t

49

Batteries and Achieving 100 Percent Renewable Energy

50

When Driving is Not An Option

51

Potholes in the Forest Service Roadless Rule

52

Come Celebrate the Bay Trail!

53

Stopping the Spread of Golden Mussels

54

The Supreme Court and the National Environmental Policy Act

55

Is Offshore Wind Still on Humboldt's Horizon?

56

Pope Francis’ Environmental Legacy

57

Earthquake-Driven Subsidence Around Humboldt Bay

58

New Timber Harvest Plan for Jackson State Forest

59

Reviewing Trump's First 100-ish Days

60

How Much of Measure O Should Go to Public Transit?

61

Coastal Commission Under Attack

62

Celebrating Klamath Dam Removal Through Art

63

What is "Renewable Diesel?"

64

Can Offshore Wind Retire Gas Plants?

65

Trump has gutted NEPA. What does that mean?

66

Where does my power come from?

67

The Makers of the New Documentary on Baduwa’t Tell Us Why They Told the River’s Story

68

A Deal for the Eel?

69

What Does it Mean to be a Dark Sky Place, and Should Humboldt Become One?

70

Dissecting Trump's First Week

71

International Climate Action in a Trump Era

72

President Carter's Environmental Legacy

73

Green Burial: Thinking Outside the Coffin

74

Poet Jerry Martien Helps Soothe Your Soul

75

The Continuing Problem of Black Market Cannabis Trespass Grows

76

What Gives You Hope?

77

A Geological Perspective on Last Week’s Quake

78

Can We Clean Up Humboldt Bay Before the Sea Rises?

79

Solar is Coming to Hydesville!

80

Is Humboldt Bay the Canary in the Coal Mine for Sea Level Rise?

81

EcoNews: Election Recap: It Wasn't All Bad! (But Trump...)

82

Proposed Wood Pellet Biofuel Project Draws Criticism

83

Is Humboldt a "Climate Refuge?"

84

Conversation with Congressman Jared Huffman

85

A Week Without Driving

86

Wolves are Returning to California

87

How Will Groundwater be Regulated After This Significant Court Ruling?

88

Draft Climate Act Plan Released

89

What If Measure F Passes?

90

EcoNews: Letting Go of Your Eco-Grief

91

How to Think About Fire (From a Fire Expert)

92

Clean Water on the Ballot

93

Northwest Forest Plan at 30

94

The Gang Goes to Norway

95

Top 10 Questions About Offshore Wind

96

Chevron Overturned: What It Means for Our Environment

97

"Project 2025" and the Environment

98

Controversial Biomass Proposal's Tie to Humboldt County

99

Rising Seas and the Future of Humboldt Bay

100

Wiyot Tribe and BLM Partner for Stewardship of Headwaters

101

Opportunities and Challenges for the Great Redwood Trail

102

Offshore Wind Developers on Exploring the Ocean Floor

103

Remembering Petey Brucker

104

In-Stream Flows Set to Expire for Klamath Tributaries. What's Next?

105

Protecting In-Stream Flows in the Mad River

106

Toxic Soup in the Smith River

107

Coping with Climate Anxiety

108

How Do Fish Get Counted, and Why Does Genetic Diversity Matter?

109

Can We Clean Up Humboldt Bay Before the Sea Rises?

110

You Loved the Movie. Now See Humboldt's Dunes!

111

Dam Removal is Sometimes Messy (But Worth It)

112

Hydrogen Buses Coming to Humboldt

113

Is Humboldt Bay the Canary in the Coal Mine for Sea Level Rise?

114

Delving Deeper into Port Electrification

115

Greening the Grid

116

Declining Access to Public Spaces

117

How Did the Harbor District Land Almost Half a Billion Dollars?

118

Supply Skepticism: Can Building More Housing Reduce Costs?

119

Coho Salmon in Downtown Arcata?

120

Poetry for a New Year

121

California's Third Shakiest Earthquake

122

Barred Owls Impact More than Spotted Owls

123

The Bird Buzz with Ken Burton

124

Meet the Energy Superstar at the Hoopa Valley Public Utilities District

125

California's Coast vs. Sea Level Rise

126

What Has Sacramento Done for Us Lately?

127

Rep. Huffman Talks Legislative Priorities

128

How much do you know about Humboldt Bay Oysters?

129

HumCo Climate Action Plan Careening Towards Cliff?

130

Tsunamis, Sea Level Rise, and Humboldt Bay's Spent Nuclear Waste Site

131

Looking Back on a Week Without Driving

132

The Latest on the Seismically Unsafe Scott Dam

133

What’s the Deal with all the Construction on Highway 101?

134

EcoNews: Celebrate Latino Heritage Month with Latino Outdoors

135

Coastal Cleanup Month is Here!

136

An Ode to the Humble (and Humboldt) Oyster

137

Kids Beat Montana to Uphold Right to a Healthy Environment

138

Sonoma Proposal for Eel River Dams and Why Humboldt Should Be Wary

139

Are Environmental Laws in the Way?

140

What's a Walkable Community?

141

NIMBY Initiative on the Ballot?

142

What's In Store for Offshore Port Development?

143

Celebrate Plastic Free July!

144

Increasing Water Levels in the South Fork Eel River

145

Exploring Sea Otter Reintroduction

146

What’s That Fence In the River?

147

Confused by the Cones on Broadway?

148

A Trip Back in Time to the Ghost Forest, With Author and Redwood Summer Veteran Greg King

149

Community Benefits from Offshore Wind?

150

Protecting 30% of California by 2030

151

To Save an Owl, We Kill an Owl?

152

How to Run a Rural Transit Agency

153

New Fish, Who Dis?

154

When Enviros are Pro-Development

155

Suing the Feds for Klamath Water

156

Bird Nerds Rejoice: Godwit Days are Here Again!

157

PG&E Finally Taking Dam Safety Seriously

158

Tsunamis, Sneaker Waves, and Climate Change

159

Solving The Climate Crisis Requires More Than Just Electrifying Your Pick-up Truck

160

Tribal Marine Stewards Network

161

Save Money While Saving the Planet

162

Congressman Jared Huffman Returns to the Show to Spill All the DC Tea

163

Big Gov't Isn't Coming to Steal Your Gas Stove (But Maybe It Should)

164

New Legislation to Return Local Control Over (Some) Pesticide Spraying

165

The Central Valley Project and its North Coast Connections

166

Climate Change Supercharging Winter Storms

167

Poets Jerry Martien and Katy Gurin Welcome the New Year with Poetry

168

California's Third Shakiest Earthquake

169

Trespass Cannabis Grows Polluting Surface Water?

170

Old Mills Sites Slated for New Offshore Wind Port

171

How to Make Ethical Decisions in Complicated World

172

Do we have a human right not to die in the Climate Wars?

173

EcoNews Election Wrap Up

174

How Do We Count The Fish?

175

Rewilding California

176

Full Steam Ahead for the Great Redwood Trail!

177

How to Make our Roads Safer: Achieving a Vision of Zero Road Deaths

178

PG&E Spraying, and the Spraying Last Time

179

Which Way the Wind Festival

180

New Research Calls Into Question Carbon Offsets From Northwest California Forests

181

A Love Story About the Klamath Mountains

182

Klamath River Woes but Progress on Dam Removal

183

How Will the IRA Impact Humboldt?

184

Wiyot Tribe Celebrates the Return of Coastal Forest & Wetlands

185

Exploring California’s Coasts with Obi Kaufmann

186

Big Doings on the Beautiful Eel River

187

Healing Humboldt's Wildlife

188

#LandBack is Environmentalism

189

Marbled Murrelets Win in Court

190

Supreme Court’s Climate Decisions are Catastrophic (and Not Just for the Climate)

191

Elections Wrap-Up

192

California’s Climate Plan Misses the Mark?

193

Power Grid Issues Limit Future Wind Development

194

Toxic Tires?

195

Coal Trains Inch Forward with Surface Transportation Board Decision

196

Composting 101

197

The Real McKay! Release of Management Plan Brings Eureka’s Future Community Forest One Step Closer

198

Bear Dogs on the Job!

199

The Beginning of the End for Eel River Dams

200

Microplastic in My Blood?

201

Understanding ‘Urbanism’

202

Bike Back Better! Getting Back on Two Wheels as an Adult

203

What do You Know About Alternative Energy?

204

Housing is an Environmental Issue

205

Our Planet is On Fire, but the Supreme Court Might Throw Away the Extinguisher

206

Build Broadway Better

207

Is California’s Carbon Credit System a Failure?

208

What’s Next for Eel River Dams?

209

Talking TOUGH With the HUFF!

210

Massive Bird Declines Foretell a Silent Spring

211

How Can Nature Teach Us to be Better Humans, With Author Gary Ferguson

212

Year-End Wrap Up (We Ain’t Gonna Miss You, 2021)

213

How is Arcata Planning for Growth? Learn About the Gateway Area!

214

The Future of Humboldt's Nuclear Waste Site

215

Poet Jerry Martien Helps Soothe Your Soul this Solstice

216

Coming Soon — Camping by the Grand Canyon of the Eel River

217

Meet RCCER — Enviros Organize for Political Power

218

Enviros Challenge County Over Cannabis

219

Restoring Blue Lake’s Powers Creek, One of the County’s Most Significant Urban Streams

220

Celebrating the Hoopa Valley Tribe's Victory over the Westland Water District

221

Pomo Perspectives on Forest Protection at the Jackson State Forest

222

Kelp Collapse?

223

Forest Defenders Threatened at Jackson State Forest

224

Redistricting Ruckus

225

Broadway: Dangerous by Design?

226

Eel River Salmon Win Before FERC

227

What Smells at Stinky Beach?

228

Dirty Coal Coming to Town?!

229

Walking in the Footsteps of Roosevelt and Muir

230

An Existential Toolkit for the Climate Generation

231

The Climate Crisis is Here

232

Coastal Cleanup Month

233

To Save an Owl, We Kill an Owl?

234

Charting a Course for Offshore Wind

235

How Can Enviro Voters Increase their Power?

236

Clam Beach Pollution Mystery Solved?

237

A Victory for Summer Steelhead

238

Rep. Jared Huffman on Dams, Wild Places and the State of the North Coast Environment on Capitol Hill

239

Is Your Fish Safe to Eat?

240

The Bundy Bunch Crash the Klamath (and Other News)

241

Enviros Cheer Caltrans? Last Chance Grade Planning Gets High Marks from EcoNews

242

It Sounds Great on Paper: The 30x30 Movement

243

Salmon’s Struggle in the Shasta

244

ECONEWS REPORT: From Pulp Mill to Salmon Farm? Examining Nordic AquaFarms’ Proposed Fish Factory

245

Protecting the ‘Grand Canyon’ of the Eel River

246

May = Bike Month Humboldt

247

How Will Sea Level Rise Affect California?

248

Redwood Creek Still Struggling from 1970s Logging Pollution

249

Lawless Logging on Six Rivers National Forest

250

Friends of the Eel River Force FERC to Comply with the Endangered Species Act

251

Cars, Trains and Automobiles — Transportation Planning in Humboldt County

252

Learn to Be a Good Activist (and Avoid Burnout) with the NEC!

253

The Trinity Alps' Last Glacier

254

Food Waste Fuels Climate Change

255

How will Humboldt Reach 100% Clean, Renewable Energy?

256

What's Next for Wolves on the West Coast?

257

Busting Myths about the Klamath Dam Removal

258

What's Next for Rep. Huffman's Wilderness Bill?

259

Humboldt's First National Landmark

260

What Can the August Complex Tell Us About the Fires of the Future?

261

The Sagebrush Rebellion and the Sacking of the Capitol

262

The Future of Jackson State Forest

263

2020 in Hindsight

264

2020 Humboldt County Environmental Roundup

265

Biden’s First 100 Days

266

Are Toxic Tires Killing Salmon?

267

The Blue-Sky Thinking Episode

268

Let’s Talk About Broadway

269

Election Post-Mortem

270

Is Justice Amy Coney Barrett a Threat to the Environment?

271

New Zealand Mudsnails Invade the Mad River

272

Real Talk about the Green New Deal

273

Local Fire Ecologist Lenya Quinn-Davidson on This Year’s Record Fire Season

274

Obi Kaufmann Paints the Forests of California and Tells Their Stories

275

Blue Lake Rancheria Finds Toxic Algae in the Lower Mad River

276

Interpreting the Parks

277

This Year, Coastal Cleanup Day Lasts all Month

278

Building Cities for People, not Cars

279

Dog Ranch Dunes Saved from Development

280

How to Become a Community Scientist with iNaturalist

281

News Round-up: Billboards, Birdwatching, and the Trump Administration’s Attack on Federal Environmental Laws

282

What Will the Next Plan for the Northwest’s Forests Look Like?

283

A State of the Klamath Update: A Spirited Discussion on What That Big Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Decision Means

284

A Proposed New Central Valley Dam Could Have Big Impacts on the Trinity River

285

Interview with a Forest Defender

286

The State of the Klamath River

287

The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of Abalone with Author Ann Vileisis

288

Why Spring- and Summer-Run Salmonids are So Damn Interesting and Weird

289

Kristen Lark of the Six River National Forest’s Mad River Ranger District

290

Removing the Eel River's Scott Dam

291

Humboldt Naturalist John Griffith

292

Dams, Billboards, Wildfire Smoke, and Humboldt Fishers

293

An Existential Toolkit for the Climate Generation

294

Welcome to the Wonderful New World of Electric Bicycles!

295

Backyard Birding for the Bored!

296

Humboldt’s Climate Action Plan, With County Planner Connor McGuigan

297

21st Century Victory Gardens

298

Congressman Jared Huffman on the Federal COVID-19 Response

299

Let’s Talk About Transportation Emissions

300

How Can We Be Happy, Healthy, Effective Activists and People?

301

The Wildlands Conservancy Protects Valuable California Ecology by Buying it Up

302

Local Hugo-Award Winning Author Becky Chambers Talks About Her Worlds and This One

303

Dead Billboards, the Great Redwood Trail and More!

304

Monte Merrick, Wildlife Rescuer, Tells Us About His Work and Offers Some Tips

305

Lessons From Terra-Gen, a Failed Wind Energy Project

306

How Can We Make the Outdoors an Inclusive Space?

307

What Does ‘Urbanism’ Mean in a Place Like Humboldt County?

308

How Does Our Electric Grid Actually Work?

309

Are Humboldt Bay King Tides a Harbinger of Sea Level Rise?

310

Removing the Eel River Dams

311

Poet Jerry Martien Helps Soothe Your Soul this Solstice

312

Zero Waste Humboldt and what it really means to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

313

Wiyot Tribal Representatives Talk About Their Objections to the Terra-Gen Wind Project

314

Here Comes the Electric Vehicle Parade!

315

‘We Cannot Move Fast Enough on This’

316

Is Your Pot Killing Northern Spotted Owls?

317

Living Through a Firestorm, with Jon Humboldt Gates

318

Where’s the Mercury in Humboldt Bay Coming From?

319

Massive Bird Declines Foretell a Silent Spring

320

The Klamath River is a Person, My Friend

321

Trump’s Cartoon Supervillains and Their Surprising Ally in Gov. Gavin Newsom

322

Let’s Not Deify People, Even If They’re Awesome Activists Like Greta Thunberg

323

What Can Tsunamis Teach Us About Combating Climate Change?

324

It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And We’re SO DEPRESSED)

325

They’re Back! Your Loveable Environmental Curmudgeons Have a New Show