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The Wednesday, May 6, 2026, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features George Price, a Native and African American, organic farmer, history educator, writer, and eco-socialist advocate in Montana, talking about the critical planetary boundaries of human existence, destructive activities causing current ecological overshoot, and solutions that replace industrial capitalism with cooperative, alternative, societal and economic structures.  We also share news, videos, and reflections on indigenous direct actions and a federal lawsuit and injunction stopping exploratory graphite drilling at the Pe’ Sla sacred site near the South Dakota Black Hills, thousands of May Day strikes, blockades, and demonstrations across the U.S., growth of global electricity capacity from renewable energy sources to almost fifty percent during 2025, and Fruitland city and Idaho citizen objections to Snake River Oil and Gas plans to drill the Miller 1-15 methane well and extract their privately-owned resources via forced leasing, close to hundreds of residences and water wells.  Broadcast for fourteen years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online at KRFP and the Pacifica Network AudioPort, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuels projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.

The Drills Are Gone. But the Lakota Are Still Here., May 5, 2026 NDN Collective

Breaking: Community Members Take Direct Action to Stop Drilling at Pe’ Sla, April 30, 2026 NDN Collective

Federal Judge Halts Drilling near Pe’ Sla in Black Hills, May 5, 2026 Buffalo’s Fire

‘A Moment of Reckoning’: 4,000-Plus May Day Demonstrations Across U.S., May 1, 2026 Common Dreams

Exclusive: Renewables Grew to Almost 50 Percent of Global Electricity Capacity in 2025 after Solar Boost, March 31, 2026 Reuters

Fruitland Weighs Acreage Offer as Drilling Debate Intensifies, May 4, 2026 Argus Observer

WIRT Comments and CAIA Objection with Attachments Opposing Snake River Oil and Gas Miller 1-15 Methane Well Drilling Application, April 20, 2026 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

An Indigenous Perspective on Ecological Overshoot: In Conversation with George Price, April 18, 2026 System Change Not Climate Change

Trump's "big, beautiful bill" may have big consequences for Exxon's clean energy future. 

Diamondback Energy's acquisition of Endeavor Energy Resources will create the region's third largest energy producer.

The impact of the energy industry on Texas' economy shattered records, but that performance is not guaranteed to continue

The Texas power grid operator will add nearly $119 million to its annual budget.

The EPA last year announced aerial surveillance of “super-emitters.”

The all-Republican court narrowly found that the nonprofit corporation qualifies for sovereign immunity.

The energy firm leader's $37.8M salary is 366 times median employee pay.

The measure is the first in a series of GOP proposals aimed at “unleashing American energy production.''

The U.S. Department of Energy granted permission for power plants to release more pollution than is normally allowed — if grid conditions worsen

Texans will be bailing out energy providers haurt by the winter storm for decades.

 The proposed offshore terminal is one of four projects intended to expand oil export capacity.

The Texas Utility Help program has been reopened for low-income Texans to apply. 

In Texas' oil and gas fields, technology to curtail methane "just doesn’t work," environmentalists say.

An analysis by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission indicates that the grid would not hold up well under extreme winter weather conditions. 

Tapping the reserve is among the few things a president can do to try to control inflation.

The leak sent blobs of crude ashore in surf-friendly Huntington Beach and other coastal communities. 

The collapse of the company marked the end of the decade's economic optimism and growth.

 Companies bid on about 2% of the tracts offered for sale in the Gulf of Mexico.

The company will plead no contest to all six charges.