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'BradCast' 5/22/2026 (Encore: Republicans Seek Immunity for Big Oil, with Laura Peterson of Union of Concerned Scientists)
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- May 23, 2026
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Encore: original airdate 5-7-2026. On today's 'BradCast': As Mississippi grappled with yet another destructive tornado outbreak, a Donald Trump-appointed panel endorsed his goal of gutting funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and forcing states to shoulder the burden of disaster management. Tennessee's Republican-controlled state legislature rammed through new voting maps that eliminate the state's only Black-majority district, prompting a legislator to call for Memphis to secede from the state. LAURA PETERSON of the Union of Concerned Scientists explains Congressional Republicans' shocking new Big Oil shield law to grant the oil industry permanent immunity from all climate liability lawsuits, current and future, that seek to hold the industry liable for the rising costs and damages of climate impacts, and for knowingly deceiving the public about climate science. Plus Desi Doyen has our new 'Green News Report.'