we will speak with bill mckibben. his new yorker article. he will also speak about senator manchin scheduling the was climate bill and the heatwave raging across europe. >> at 40 degrees celsius, it is only making the more difficult to distinguish -- excuse the fire. it is becoming very hot like the south, amy: than about a dozen republican-led states have moved to ban nearly all abortion since the supreme court overturned roe . shocking cases are surfacing like the 10-year-old ohio girl who became pregnant after she was raped had to travel to indiana to get an abortion. we will speak with the editor of the nieman journalism lab about how unimaginable --"unimaginable abortion stories will become more common. is american journalism ready?" all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president biden has returned from his trip to the middle east where he met with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman on friday. the two men greeted each other with a friendly fist bump. the

bill mckibben is an environmentalist, he's the founder of the organization third act, the author of alled the flag, the cross, and the station wagon. we appreciate your time, sir. today was the end of the supreme court term. and put it lightly, as bill said, the decisions we got this term were bananas. we will talk to the great joliette lithwick about all those decisions on the future of the court on the other side of this break. r side of this break. after over 230 years, today at noon it finally happened. with her swearing in this afternoon, judge ketanji brown jackson became the first black woman to sit on the supreme court after justice stephen breyer retired today after nearly 30 years on the high court himself justice jackson said in a written statement today, with a full heart eyes except the solemn responsibility of supporting and defending the constitution of the united states, and administering justice without fear or favor, so help me god. justice jackson is joining the nation's highest court in a historically divisive time. a supreme court under siege from the weight of po

joining me now is bill mckibben, one of the preeminent environmental thinkers of our time.there is an environmentalist, he's the founder of an organization called third act which is comprised of people over the age of 60 who are determined to change the world for the better. he's also the author of a memoir called the flag, of the cross in the station wagon. bill, thank you for joining us again. of course, you are the author of the article that i was quoting. tell me a little bit more, you and i started this conversation earlier this week, but tell me a little bit more about this. because it seems that with the court has said the epa can't do is what's simple tens like us think the epa should have been doing. >> i mean, the fact that it's called the environmental protection agency should give us some of a clue. it really is and threatening to go back to its history. yes, richard nixon signed it all into law but it's not because richard nixon cared about the environment, he once described environmentalists as animals who want to live in caves. he had to do it because 20 mill

bill mckibben is an environmentalist, he's the founder of the organization third act, the author of aoir called the flag, the cross, and the station wagon. we appreciate your time, sir. today was the end of the supreme court term. and put it lightly, as bill said, the decisions we got this term were bananas. we will talk to the great dahlia lithwick about all those decisions on the future of the court on the other side of this break. your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire when wstarted our business were payin arm a leg for post i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice

joining us now is bill mckibben, an environmentalist and a founder of an organization called third act, which comprise of the people over the age of 60 who is determined to change the world for the better and author of a memoir "the flag, the cross and the station wagon," bill, thanks for joining us. >> a pleasure to be with you. >> so tell me, you can help me understand what this ruling does to the epa? it limits their ability to limit or restrict the negative, environmentally negative output of power plants. >> that's right. the epa is filled with experts whose job it is to figure out how to regulate pollution that comes out of power plants and things. but the supreme court today said we don't care about that, that if there's going to be any serious regulation, congress has to specifically tell us how much methane or what kind of carbon or on and on down the list, and of course, as anybody who has followed congress as you have every night, for years now, knows, that's exactly the same thing as saying we'll not have any regulation at all. this, in facing the greatest crisis the world

and climate activist bill mckibben tweeted in response -- "manchin has taken more money from the fossil fuel industry than anyone else in d.c. and the return on that investment has been enormous. big oil got its money worth a thousand times over." the international monetary fund is warning the global economy could soon slip into a recession. imf director kristalina georgieva said this week price shocks from russia's war in ukraine e making it harder for hundreds of millions of people to purchase food, fuel, and other necessities. china's bureau of statistics said today the economy grew by just 0.4% last quarter compared to a year earlier. that's cha's lowest rate of growth since the covid-19 pandemic idled much of its economy in early 2020. in brussels, the europeaunion has asked member states to curb their use of natural gas amid fears that russia might further reduce supplies. the eu says nations that increase their reliance of coal will be exempted from carbon emissions reduction goals. in argentina, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of buenos aires thursday angered by