THE ECONEWS REPORT: Trump's Plans to Disrupt Dam Removal Get FERC'd ⁠22%

By The EcoNews Report⁠84%

8/1/2026, 3:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Emotion, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 22.1% saturation with 31 hits. Analysis detected 155 faulty-reasoning hits from 140 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 28.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠22% (23,764 of 30,190 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 78.70% of the article peer group.

Remember 
how a shady Southern California water agency, the Elsinore 
Valley Municipal Water District, announced that it wanted to take 
over the Potter Valley Project on the Eel River, seemingly to thwart 
dam removal? 
We have some good news. 
Earlier 
this month, the Federal Energy Regulator Commission 
(FERC) denied the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District’s petition 
to “intervene” in their proceedings. 
This means that the 
Water District would lack “standing” to sue over the final 
determination by FERC. 
While welcome news, that doesn’t mean 
that Elsinore is out of tricks it can play. 
Alicia Hamann, Executive 
Director of Friends of the Eel River, joins the program to give the 
latest news on Eel River dam removal. 
For 
the latest on Eel River news, be sure to go to eelriver.org 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 1.4%The EcoNews Report: 21.3%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.6%Confirmation Bias1.4%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.8%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.3%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 15.0%The EcoNews Report: 22.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 2.7%Framing Effect15.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 4.3%The EcoNews Report: 2.9%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.5%Status Quo Bias4.3%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.4%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 3.6%The EcoNews Report: 0.9%Lost Coast Outpost: 3.1%Optimism Bias3.6%This article: 6.4%The EcoNews Report: 7.1%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.0%Pessimism Bias6.4%This article: 18.6%The EcoNews Report: 24.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 4.5%Negativity Bias18.6%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.3%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 6.4%The EcoNews Report: 10.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.4%Fundamental Attribution Error6.4%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 2.3%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 3.7%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 2.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.8%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.6%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.2%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 6.4%The EcoNews Report: 13.5%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.6%Ad Hominem6.4%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 6.4%The EcoNews Report: 0.8%Lost Coast Outpost: 2.1%Appeal to Authority6.4%This article: 4.3%The EcoNews Report: 0.5%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.5%False Dilemma4.3%This article: 6.4%The EcoNews Report: 4.5%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.4%Slippery Slope6.4%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 7.4%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.5%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.3%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.2%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 7.9%The EcoNews Report: 11.2%Lost Coast Outpost: 4.4%Appeal to Emotion7.9%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 7.9%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.4%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 3.7%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 5.8%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 2.3%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 2.1%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.5%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 1.4%The EcoNews Report: 7.4%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)1.4%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 2.1%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.1%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 22.1%The EcoNews Report: 33.4%Lost Coast Outpost: 3.7%Biased Writer Voice22.1%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 3.6%Lost Coast Outpost: 2.1%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 17.8%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 3.1%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

140 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers24%attributed speech106writer words
56%flagged-word coverage
16 attributed words47% of attributed speech49% writer coverage
0%15.0%30.0%Biased Writer Voice-29.2 ptsWriter: 29.2%Federal Energy Regulator Commission: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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