THE ECONEWS REPORT: Trump Attacks the California Coast 89%
By The EcoNews Report99%
7/18/2026, 10:00:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Confirmation Bias, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 71.8% saturation with 107 hits. Analysis detected 928 faulty-reasoning hits from 149 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.1% and a BS Rank of 89% (2,197 of 18,403 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 88.10% of the article peer group.
The Trump Administration is going after California’s coast.
To curb California’s power to stop harmful development off of its coast, NOAA has announced a new review of the California Coastal Management Program.
The program is California’s way of implementing the Coastal Zone Management Act and allows more power for California to review and check federal projects off our coast.
While NOAA conducts routine, periodic performance reviews of state coastal programs, it appears that this is deliberately to strip power from the state in order to advance more oil and gas developments and “space port” developments desired by Trump acolytes like Elon Musk.
Jen Savage of the Surfrider Foundation joins the program to talk about this and other threats from the Trump Administration to the California coast.
Want to learn more?
Check out the Surfrider Foundation!
"The EcoNews Report," July 18, 2026
Confirmation Bias
61.1%Confirmation Bias
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61.1%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
45%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
0%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Framing Effect
10.7%Framing Effect
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10.7%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
40%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
0%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Status Quo Bias
18.1%Status Quo Bias
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18.1%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
6%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
0%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Pessimism Bias
45%Pessimism Bias
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45%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
15%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Negativity Bias
71.8%Negativity Bias
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71.8%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
50.3%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
0%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Fundamental Attribution Error
28.9%Fundamental Attribution Error
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28.9%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
9.6%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
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In-Group Bias
18.1%In-Group Bias
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18.1%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
6%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
9.6%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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0%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
0%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
0%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Ad Hominem
28.9%Ad Hominem
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28.9%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
28.9%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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0%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
28.9%Slippery Slope
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28.9%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
9.6%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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19.2%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
2.7%Bandwagon
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2.7%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
0.9%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Appeal to Emotion
13.4%Appeal to Emotion
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13.4%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
15.9%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Begging the Question
16.1%Begging the Question
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16.1%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
20.4%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
28.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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28.9%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
9.6%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
45%Burden of Proof
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45%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
15%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
18.1%Composition/Division
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18.1%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
6%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Anecdotal
16.1%Anecdotal
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16.1%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
5.4%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
55.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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55.7%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
18.6%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
16.1%Unattributed Quote
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16.1%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
5.4%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
68.5%Biased Writer Voice
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68.5%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
61.1%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Indoctrination
24.8%Indoctrination
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24.8%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
9.4%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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26.8%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
6%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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6%AuthorThe EcoNews Report
4.3%PublicationLost Coast Outpost
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149 words analyzed.
Analysis
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