Jul 14, 2026 · 58 min · 8 segments
Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program. First up, I sit down Kels Menchaca, an organizer with the DFW Support Committee to talk about the Prairieland case. With combined sentences of 562…
Kels MenchacaGuestI'm Eleanor Goldfield, co-host of the Project Censored Radio Show, and here's some of the news that didn't make the news the week of July 13th, 2026.
As huge swaths of the planet find themselves in so-called heat domes, aka furnaces, an Inside Climate News analysis of press releases issued by members of the House and Senate show that elected Democrats have embraced the message of climate hushing, with mentions of climate change plummeting since 2025.
The focus is instead on affordability, but as usual, Dems analyze data the way that a cat might analyze a mixing board, with a blend of shallow interest, confusion, and ultimately just swatting at it.
The affordability crisis is the climate crisis, be it in the total lack of investment in green energy, the perpetuation of the war machine that siphons funds from all other social programs that support affordability while destroying the planet, and you know, the simple fact that the climate crisis makes everything more expensive, like food, utilities, housing.
A new analysis from clean energy think tank Energy Innovation finds that the cumulative impact of the Trump administration's attacks on clean energy, including the repeal of clean energy tax credits, new barriers to permitting wind and solar, and a tilt toward more expensive coal-fired power, will raise the average household's energy costs by $460 by 2035, $490 a year by 2040.
That means adding about half a trillion dollars to American households in collective energy costs by 2040.
That comes on top of electricity rates that have already spiked more than 7% nationwide since last fall.
I wonder if Dems consider that an affordability issue? Relatedly, the CEO of Exelon, a utility company that services some 11 million people in the U.S., went on record saying that Americans should ready ourselves for nationwide blackouts starting in 2027 due to the strain that data centers are putting on the power grid.
People are, in fact, already feeling the strain, getting notices that their utility bills will increase due to data centers.
Novara Media reports that data centers are driving massive carbon emissions, consuming 6% of all electricity in the U.K. and U.S.
This might be why, as we've covered on the show before, people are fighting back globally.
In the U.S. alone, between the beginning of January and the end of March of this year, some 75 proposed data centers have been blocked by community organizing.
Also related to the continued assault on the ecosystems of which we are a part, the Trump EPA has just approved its fifth forever chemical pesticide.
A 2024 report from researchers at the Center for Biological Diversity, Environmental Working Group, and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility found that forever chemicals are increasingly being added to U.S. pesticide products, contaminating waterways and posing health risks to humans.
And among other things, they've been found to be highly carcinogenic, linked to reduced fertility, reproductive toxicity, and birth defects.
Though the EPA will report that at low doses there's little risk and other such vague and ultimately false language, there's actually no safe dosage for these chemicals.
Much like lead, there's an official threshold, but it's not as if that amount is actually safe.
I'm Eleanor Goldfield, co-host of the Project Censored Radio Show, and here's some of the news that didn't make the news the week of July 13th, 2026.
As huge swaths of the planet find themselves in so-called heat domes, aka furnaces, an Inside Climate News analysis of press releases issued by members of the House and Senate show that elected Democrats have embraced the message of climate hushing, with mentions of climate change plummeting since 2025.
The focus is instead on affordability, but as usual, Dems analyze data the way that a cat might analyze a mixing board, with a blend of shallow interest, confusion, and ultimately just swatting at it.
The affordability crisis is the climate crisis, be it in the total lack of investment in green energy, the perpetuation of the war machine that siphons funds from all other social programs that support affordability while destroying the planet, and you know, the simple fact that the climate crisis makes everything more expensive, like food, utilities, housing.
A new analysis from clean energy think tank Energy Innovation finds that the cumulative impact of the Trump administration's attacks on clean energy, including the repeal of clean energy tax credits, new barriers to permitting wind and solar, and a tilt toward more expensive coal-fired power, will raise the average household's energy costs by $460 by 2035, $490 a year by 2040.
That means adding about half a trillion dollars to American households in collective energy costs by 2040.
That comes on top of electricity rates that have already spiked more than 7% nationwide since last fall.
I wonder if Dems consider that an affordability issue? Relatedly, the CEO of Exelon, a utility company that services some 11 million people in the U.S., went on record saying that Americans should ready ourselves for nationwide blackouts starting in 2027 due to the strain that data centers are putting on the power grid.
People are, in fact, already feeling the strain, getting notices that their utility bills will increase due to data centers.
Novara Media reports that data centers are driving massive carbon emissions, consuming 6% of all electricity in the U.K. and U.S.
This might be why, as we've covered on the show before, people are fighting back globally.
In the U.S. alone, between the beginning of January and the end of March of this year, some 75 proposed data centers have been blocked by community organizing.
Also related to the continued assault on the ecosystems of which we are a part, the Trump EPA has just approved its fifth forever chemical pesticide.
A 2024 report from researchers at the Center for Biological Diversity, Environmental Working Group, and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility found that forever chemicals are increasingly being added to U.S. pesticide products, contaminating waterways and posing health risks to humans.
And among other things, they've been found to be highly carcinogenic, linked to reduced fertility, reproductive toxicity, and birth defects.
Though the EPA will report that at low doses there's little risk and other such vague and ultimately false language, there's actually no safe dosage for these chemicals.
Much like lead, there's an official threshold, but it's not as if that amount is actually safe.
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