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% (2,350 of 20,516 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 88.50% 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 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 61.1%The EcoNews Report: 45.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 3.6%Confirmation Bias61.1%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 3.5%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.6%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 10.7%The EcoNews Report: 40.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 5.2%Framing Effect10.7%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 18.1%The EcoNews Report: 6.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.1%Status Quo Bias18.1%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.6%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 4.0%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 45.0%The EcoNews Report: 15.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.6%Pessimism Bias45.0%This article: 71.8%The EcoNews Report: 50.3%Lost Coast Outpost: 7.5%Negativity Bias71.8%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.7%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 28.9%The EcoNews Report: 9.6%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.6%Fundamental Attribution Error28.9%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.4%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 18.1%The EcoNews Report: 6.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.5%In-Group Bias18.1%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 9.6%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 4.3%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.2%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: 1.0%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 28.9%The EcoNews Report: 28.9%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.5%Ad Hominem28.9%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 4.1%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.6%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 28.9%The EcoNews Report: 9.6%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.0%Slippery Slope28.9%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 19.2%Lost Coast Outpost: 2.8%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 2.7%The EcoNews Report: 0.9%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.4%Bandwagon2.7%This article: 13.4%The EcoNews Report: 15.9%Lost Coast Outpost: 6.7%Appeal to Emotion13.4%This article: 16.1%The EcoNews Report: 20.4%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.7%Begging the Question16.1%This article: 28.9%The EcoNews Report: 9.6%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)28.9%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 45.0%The EcoNews Report: 15.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.4%Burden of Proof45.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 18.1%The EcoNews Report: 6.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.3%Composition/Division18.1%This article: 16.1%The EcoNews Report: 5.4%Lost Coast Outpost: 4.3%Anecdotal16.1%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 55.7%The EcoNews Report: 18.6%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)55.7%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: 0.4%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 16.1%The EcoNews Report: 5.4%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.8%Unattributed Quote16.1%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.1%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 68.5%The EcoNews Report: 61.1%Lost Coast Outpost: 7.2%Biased Writer Voice68.5%This article: 24.8%The EcoNews Report: 9.4%Lost Coast Outpost: 4.4%Indoctrination24.8%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 26.8%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The EcoNews Report: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 6.0%The EcoNews Report: 4.3%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.8%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…6.0%

149 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers19%attributed speech120writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 43 words • 100.0% coverageJen Savage • 24 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 100.0% coverageSurfrider Foundation • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Jen Savage

100%flagged-word coverage
24 attributed words83% of attributed speech95% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Indoctrination+93.3 ptsWriter: 6.7%Jen Savage: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-85.0 ptsWriter: 85.0%Jen Savage: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-20.0 ptsWriter: 20.0%Jen Savage: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -3.3 ptsWriter: 3.3%Jen Savage: 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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