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 Media Roundtable, we’ll discuss ‘Battle for Tibet,’ a new Frontline documentary that examines how the Chinese government controls Tibet’s Buddhist population. Joining us will be Gesbeen Mohammad, BAFTA and Emmy-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, and the director of the film.
Then we’ll look at the budget resolution passed by House Republicans this week that calls for a massive tax cut for the wealthy, and billions of dollars of cuts in Medicaid, a program that provides coverage of health and long-term care to 83 million low-income people.
David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter, co-founder of DCReport, and author of many books, including “It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America”, will join us to unpack what’s in the bill.
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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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On today’s Your Call Media Roundtable, we’ll cover a lawsuit that could drastically change press freedom laws in the United States; that’s one of many important cases headed to the US Supreme Court. Kelsey Reichmann, Supreme Court Reporter for Courthouse News Service, joins us to discuss.
Then we’ll talk to Reveal podcast host Al Letson about his new podcast “More to the Story,” which is about to launch during a moment of massive media layoffs.
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On today’s Your Call’s One Planet Series, leading environmental justice activist Catherine Coleman Flowers, founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, joins us to discuss her new book Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope.
In this deeply personal collection of essays, Flowers explores urgent political issues, from reproductive rights to the disenfranchisement of the rural poor, from food justice and gun violence to the history of infrastructure in the South where she grew up and still resides.
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On today’s Your Call Media Roundtable, we’ll discuss “After the Raid,” an investigation by award-winning journalist and guest Jack Herrera, about one of the largest workplace ICE raids in US history, which upended the Panhandle town of Cactus, Texas.
ICE agents raided Swift meat company plants in six states on Dec. 12, 2006, arresting nearly 1,300 workers. In the tiny town of Cactus, 297 workers were arrested— about 10 percent of the town’s population.
Then later in the show, we’ll discuss the latest from the Trump administration, from the confirmation of Robert Kennedy, Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, to the proposed closure of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, to announced mass firings of government workers.
Joining us will be Chris Lehmann, DC Bureau chief for The Nation and author of The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream.
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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.
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On today’s Your Call’s One Planet Series, we’ll discuss a joint investigation by The Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab that reveals how US companies are exporting their hazardous industrial waste to Mexico and Canada, leaving our neighboring countries with all the health and environmental consequences. The U.S. companies are exporting over 1 million tons of hazardous waste annually, most of which is shipped to Mexico and Canada.
Joining us will be reporters:
- Erin McCormick, California-based reporter with The Guardian
- Verónica García de León, journalist with Quinto Elemento Lab
Then we’ll cover a move by the Trump administration officials to release significant amounts of water from two dams in California’s Central Valley, with Jessica Garrison, Northern California correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.
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On Your Call’s Media Roundtable this morning, we’ll discuss the new FRONTLINE documentary “Trump’s Comeback.” The film examines key moments in Trump’s life and career, his lies about the result of the 2020 election, felony convictions, and his return to the Oval Office. Joining us will be the director/writer Michael Kirk.
Then later in the program we’ll look at the media coverage of ICE raids, Trump’s immigration crackdown, and the mass deportations happening across the country. Joining us to discuss will be:
- Uriel García, immigration reporter at the Texas Tribune
- Wendy Fry, Emmy-winning multimedia investigative journalist who reports on poverty and inequality for the California Divide team at CalMatters
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On today’s Your Call’s One Planet Series, we’ll have a conversation about why we should change our approach to fighting wildfires. In 2024, the Forest Service and Department of the Interior combined spent more than $4 billion on wildfire suppression, and only a little more than $700 million on preparedness. Wildland firefighter and writer Lazo Gitchos joins us to talk about these priorities and how they could change.
And we’ll also talk about the health effects of fire smoke on firefighters with Lisa Patel, executive director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine.
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