On today’s Your Call’s One Planet Series, we’ll discuss the passing of Pope Francis and his legacy on climate change, with Mark Hertsgaard, the environment correspondent of The Nation and the executive director of the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now.
Then we’ll discuss “Eating: The Power to Save the Ocean,” a documentary that investigates how industrial fishing, agriculture, pesticides, and global food transport are endangering ocean health. The film asks: what if our food could save the ocean?
Joining us will be Malaury Morin, an ocean activist who sets off to hitchhike the roads of France to better understand the impacts of our food on the ocean.
Finally, we’ll cover the response to the Trump administration’s relentless attacks on scientific research. A wave of executive orders and policies have launched a direct assault on science and public health—initiating the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization, gutting federally funded research, forcing thousands of federal employees out of their jobs, and scrubbing or distorting federal websites and datasets
Scientists across the country have expressed concern that these actions threaten to significantly roll back scientific progress in the United States. They are mobilizing to defend science as a public good, and as a foundation for social, political, and economic progress.
Joining us will be Emma Courtney, Ph.D. candidate at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and co-organizer of Stand Up for Science.
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I’ll be on KQED Forum today at 9am PT talking about Trump’s sweeping executive order taking aim at efforts by states, including California, to set their own environmental policies. At risk are key components of California’s fight against climate change, including its cap-and-trade program to control carbon emissions and efforts to promote electrical vehicles.
Trump’s order is just the latest in his moves to reverse climate change policies, including halting government research funding and gutting environmental agencies. As his head of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin has said, the administration is “driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.” We’ll talk about the impact of Trump’s approach to the environment and how California could respond.
I’ll be joined on the panel with:
- Sonia Aggarwal, CEO, Energy Innovation – a non partisan think tank based in San Francisco that provides research and analysis on energy and climate policy; special assistant, to the President for Climate Policy, Innovation, and Deployment in the Biden administration.
- Lisa Friedman, reporter on the climate desk, New York Times
- Abigail Dillen, president, Earthjustice – a public interest law group focused on the environment
Hope you can tune in on KQED or stream live at 9am PT!
On today’s Your Call One Planet Series, we discuss Water for Life, a documentary film that tells the story of three Indigenous activists in Central and South America as they fight to protect their ancestral lands and water rights.
The film follows Alberto Curamil, a Mapuche chief in Chile, Francisco Pineda, a corn-grower in El Salvador, and the late Berta Cáceres of the Lenca in Honduras, as they face jail and murder while leading movements to safeguard their drinking and irrigation water from multinational corporations and corrupt governments.
Joining us will be:
- Will Parrinello, award-winning documentary filmmaker and director of Water for Life
- Rick Tejada-Flores, documentary filmmaker and co- producer of Water for Life
- Maria Jose Calderon, award-winning documentary producer, editor, and co-producer of Water for life
Then we discuss a recent executive order that that aims to stop the enforcement of state climate laws and policies. According to CalMatters, Trump’s executive order directs US Attorney General Pam Bondi to identify state and local acts that may be unconstitutional or preempted by federal law. Within 60 days, the attorney general must report back with findings and recommendations for action.
Trump’s order singles out California’s cap and trade program, a market-based system created in 2012 that is considered one of the state’s key policies for combating climate change. The program sets limits on greenhouse gas emissions and allows companies to buy and sell credits. Twelve other states have similar programs for cutting greenhouse gases.
To help us unpack what’s at stake, we’ll be joined by Ken Alex, director of Project Climate at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, and Environment.
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On today’s Your Call One Planet Series, we’ll discuss two documentaries featured at this year’s International Ocean Film Festival, which runs from April 11-13 in San Francisco, followed by an online program from April 14 – 22.
Salmon Run explores the Bay Area’s salmon fishery and the people who work hard to sustain it. Pieter Kruit, producer and director of the film, will join us to talk more about this industry and his film.
Then we’ll discuss Saving Seagrass, which documents the importance of seagrass by bringing us to the underwater nursery in the estuaries of Mobile Bay, Alabama. Joining us will be filmmaker, editor, narrator, and director Robert Boyd.
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I’ll be double-hosting on KALW today. First, on Your Call’s One Planet Series at 10am PT, we discuss the Trump administration’s attack on environmental protections.
Donald Trump’s EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, plans to roll back more than two dozen regulations that protect our health, air, water, and climate, eliminate the Office of Research and Development, and fire hundreds of scientists. Joining us to discuss will be:
- Ken Alex, director of Project Climate at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, & Environment
- Marianne Lavelle, award-winning reporter for Inside Climate News
Later in the program, we’ll examine the Trump administration’s decision to drop a landmark environmental justice case in Louisiana’s cancer alley, with Robert Taylor, executive director of Concerned Citizens for St. John.
Then at 6pm PT, I’ll be hosting State of the Bay. First, we’ll talk to San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie about his new plan on homelessness.
Then we’ll talk about the suffering endured by millions of people due to Long Covid, with Dr. Linda Geng, co-director of the Stanford Long Covid Collaborative, and Philip Hoover, a screenwriter and North Bay resident who has firsthand experience navigating life with Long COVID.
Finally, we’ll talk to Ramon Ramos Alayo of the dance festival CubaCaribe.
Tune in at 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area or stream live at 10am PT for Your Call and then again at 6pm PT for State of the Bay. What comments or questions do you have for our guests? Call 866-798-TALK to join the conversation!
On today’s Your Call’s One Planet Series, we’ll discuss the importance of environmental journalism with:
- Mark Hertsgaard, executive director of Covering Climate Now, environment correspondent for The Nation, and author of Big Red’s Mercy: The Shooting of Deborah Cotton and A Story of Race in America.
- Sammy Roth, climate columnist for the Los Angeles Times and author of the paper’s Boiling Point newsletter
How should journalists cover the Trump administration’s moves to stop climate action?
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On today’s Your Call One Planet Series, we discuss a new analysis by Last Chance Alliance that shows the Oil and gas companies spent a record $38 million in 2024 to fight climate and environmental justice policies in California.
That brings the annual price tag for last year to $38 million, shattering the annual state lobbying record for the industry by 45%, which stood at $26.2 million in 2017. Spending by two groups alone, Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) and Chevron, broke the previous record, coming in at $31.6 million in 2024. WSPA and Chevron accounted for 83% of the industry’s expenditure.
To talk more about the report, we’ll be joined by:
- Ryan Schleeter, communications director for The Climate Center
- Christina Scaringe, California Climate Policy Director at the Center for Biological Diversity Climate Law Institute
Later in the program, we’ll talk to Mark Olalde, award winning reporter covering the environment for Propublica, about how Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to shrink the federal government have left the country’s wildland firefighting force unprepared for the rapidly approaching wildfire season.
According to Propublica, the administration has frozen funds, including money appropriated by Congress, and issued a deluge of orders eliminating federal employees, which has thrown agencies tasked with battling blazes into disarray as individual offices and managers struggle to interpret the directives. The uncertainty has limited training and postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation in areas vulnerable to wildfire. It has also left some firefighters with little choice but to leave the force, their colleagues said.
Then on State of the Bay at 6pm PT, we’ll delve into the Bay Area’s homelessness crisis with San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and DignityMoves CEO Elizabeth Funk. Why has it proven so tough to tackle? And could building more interim housing be the key to turning things around?
Then we’ll meet San Francisco’s new District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood.
Finally, we’ll hear about challenges facing today’s boys from Ruth Whippman, author of the book BoyMom.
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Double shot of KALW for me today! First, on Your Call’s One Planet Series at 10am: how will the rising cost of home insurance, driven by worsening climate disasters, push up the costs of owning a home? In some cases, insurance companies are pulling out of towns altogether. And in others, people are beginning to move away. Abrahm Lustgarten, an investigative reporter at ProPublica and The New York Times, will discuss these trends.
Later in the show, we’ll examine the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency with Marianne Lavelle, an award winning reporter for the Pulitzer Prize-winning, non-profit, news organization Inside Climate News. According to Inside Climate News, employees tasked with overseeing environmental justice initiatives at the Environmental Protection Agency could be placed on immediate administrative leave, leaving them in limbo.
Then at 6pm PT, I’m hosting State of the Bay, where we’ll talk to UCSF doctors and scientists about the impact of uncertain federal funding on our public health and on the cutting edge research happening here in the Bay. Guests include Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, infectious disease doctor at UCSF, and Pamela Munster, Professor in the Department of Medicine in Hematology/Oncology at UCSF.
We’ll also discuss how the Rose Pak Democratic Club recently ended its affiliation with the Democratic Party. Joining us will be Jeremy Lee, President of the Rose Pak Democratic Club, and Ko Lyn Cheang, Asian American and Pacific Islander reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.
And finally, we’ll hear from the director of the new film Underdogs, about how the human-dog bond transforms incarcerated people.
Tune in at 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area or stream live at 10am PT for Your Call and then again at 6pm PT for State of the Bay. What comments or questions do you have for our guests? Call 866-798-TALK to join the conversation!
On today’s Your Call Media Roundtable, we’ll discuss a recent investigation about how a deceptive PR strategy pioneered in 1950s California first exposed the risk of climate change and then helped the industry deny it. Joining us will be Rebecca John, investigative climate journalist and research Fellow at the Climate Investigations Center.
We also talk about the news media coverage of the devastating LA fires, and the fossil fuel industry’s efforts in California to kill a bill that would have forced major fossil fuel companies to contribute to a fund, which would pay for climate disasters. Aaron Cantu, award-winning investigative journalist covering gas and oil in California for the Capital & Main, will describe the details.
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On Today’s Your Call, we’ll discuss how the ongoing fires in Los Angeles will affect the home insurance market. Joining us will be:
- Dave Jones, the Director of the Climate Risk Initiative at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE), who served two terms as California’s Insurance Commissioner from 2011 to 2018
- Jake Bittle, staff writer at Grist covering disasters and climate adaptation, and the author of the 2023 book: The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
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