who is Trash pandering to by degrading car standards?
24 Governors Call on Trump to Halt Rollback on Rules for Clean Cars
24 governors, including three Republicans, urged the president to abandon his plan.
The governors’ plea adds to a chorus of criticism from an unlikely mix of voices,
including not only environmentalists and
labor unions but also
some of the biggest automakers in the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/climate/trump-governors-clean-car-rules.html
More air pollution means more sickness and death.
The White House has said
President Trump would veto a current version of a military spending bill
because it includes funds for extensive cleanup of PFAS,
toxic “forever chemicals,” from water near military bases.
Trump reportedly thinks the $2 billion goes too far.
“I invite him to drink, bathe, or swim in some of the water our communities do,” said Rep. Debbie Dingell from Michigan.
Clash over deep spending cuts faces another round in Alaska
Alaska’s governor won a showdown on Wednesday with lawmakers trying to reverse his bid to slash spending on higher education by 40%,
but opponents vowed to keep fighting the unprecedented cut, which
university officials have warned would wreak havoc.
Republican Mike Dunleavy, in his first year as governor, wants
deep cuts in education and other programs to help pay for his chief campaign promise - a sharp increase in the annual oil revenue dividend Alaska pays to each resident.
Dunleavy says his cuts are needed to rein in spending and cope with a long-term decline in Alaska’s oil industry receipts that is undermining its economy, even as he proposed nearly doubling the oil revenue dividend to a record $3,000 a year.
Critics say the cuts, totaling about $440 million, are so harsh they will worsen the state’s economic slump.
“I cannot fathom why the governor is purposely throwing Alaska into a severe economic recession,”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alaska-politics/clash-over-deep-spending-cuts-faces-another-round-in-alaska-idUSKCN1U512T?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
Trash is freak show, the real damage to America is from his kakistocrats in the Exec branch hired to execute the oligarchy's strategy
10 Ways Andrew Wheeler Has Decimated EPA Protections in Just One Year
Trump’s EPA administrator should change the name of his agency to "Every Polluter’s Ally."
President Trump hosted a White House event to unabashedly tout his truly abysmal environmental record.
My organization, the Union of Concerned Scientists, has compiled a list of
80 Trump administration attacks on science since taking office,
and Wheeler has been the driving force behind many of them. Below are 10 of the more egregious ways he has undermined the EPA’s time-honored role to protect public health and the environment so far.
1. Sidelined Scientists
Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist, has taken a number of steps to systematically reduce the role of scientists in the agency’s policymaking process. Last fall, for example, he eliminated the agency’s Office of the Science Advisor, which counseled the EPA administrator on research supporting health and environmental standards, and placed the head of the EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection on administrative leave. He also disbanded a 20-member scientific advisory committee on particulate matter, or soot; failed to convene a similar panel on ozone; and packed a seven-member advisory committee on air quality standards with industry-friendly participants.
2. Proposed to Restrict the Use of Scientific Data
Claiming his intent is to increase “transparency,” Wheeler is promoting a rule Pruitt proposed that would dramatically limit the scientific studies the agency considers when developing health standards. If adopted, the rule would restrict the use of scientific studies in EPA decisions if the underlying data are not public and reproducible, which would disqualify many epidemiological and other health studies the EPA relies on to set science-based public safeguards. Given that EPA health standards often rely on studies that contain private patient information, as well as confidential business information that cannot be revealed, the rule would significantly hamper the agency’s ability to carry out its mission. Wheeler plans to finalize the rule sometime this year.
3. Gutted the Coal Ash Rule
The first major rule Wheeler signed as acting administrator refuted his claim that he could fulfill President Trump’s directive to “clean up the air, clean up the water, and provide regulatory relief” at the same time. By rolling back the Obama-era coal ash rule, Wheeler provided regulatory relief to his old friend the coal industry by weakening environmental protections established in 2015 to clean up coal ash ponds, which are laced with toxic contaminants that leak into groundwater. The move was a top priority for coal baron Bob Murray, owner of Murray Energy, Wheeler’s most lucrative client when he worked for the Faegre Baker Daniels law firm.
4. Recommended Unsafe Levels of Drinking Water Contaminants
Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are used in firefighting foam and a variety of nonstick, cleaning, packaging and other household products, have been linked to thyroid disease and kidney, liver, pancreatic and testicular cancer. According to a recent study by the Environmental Working Group and Northeastern University, these chemicals threaten the drinking water supplies of an estimated 19 million Americans. A 2018 Union of Concerned Scientists report, meanwhile, found that PFAS water contamination at 130 military bases across the country exceed the 11-parts-per-trillion safety threshold determined by the Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Nearly two-thirds of the sites had contamination that was more than 100 times higher than the safe level.
5. Rolled Back Clean Water Act Protections
Clearing up a decade-long dispute over the scope of the Clean Water Act, the Obama EPA adopted a broad, science-based definition of the law that included protecting intermittent and ephemeral streams and wetlands that do not have surface water connections to other waterways. A 2015 EPA meta-analysis of more than 1,200 peer-reviewed studies concluded that even infrequently flowing small streams and isolated wetlands can affect “the integrity of downstream waters.” Trash them and that pollution could wind up in rivers, lakes, reservoirs and estuaries.
6. Suppressed an Inconvenient Formaldehyde Report
Last August, Wheeler disingenuously told a Senate committee that the EPA was holding up the release of a report on the risk of cancer from formaldehyde to confirm its veracity. “I am sure we will release it,” he said, “but I need to make sure that the science in the report is still accurate.”
7. Ignored EPA Scientists’ Advice to Ban Asbestos
Instead of heeding the advice of agency scientists and lawyers to follow the example of 55 other countries and ban asbestos completely, the EPA announced in April that it would tighten restrictions on asbestos—not ban it—despite overwhelming scientific evidence of its dangers. Manufacturers will be able to continue to use the substance if they obtain EPA approval.
8. Weakened the Mercury Emissions Rule
In late December, the EPA proposed to significantly weaken a rule restricting mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants by recalculating its costs and benefits. The Obama EPA, which issued the rule in 2011, estimated it would cost utilities $7.4 billion to $9.6 billion annually to install pollution controls and lead to $37 billion to $90 billion in health benefits by reducing not only mercury, a potent neurotoxin, but also sulfur dioxide and soot, thus preventing 130,000 asthma attacks, 4,700 heart attacks, and as many as 11,000 premature deaths. The Wheeler EPA ignored the “co-benefits” of limiting sulfur dioxide and soot, and flagrantly lowballed the health benefits of curbing mercury alone at only $4 million to $6 million annually.
9. Slammed Vehicle Emission Rules Into Reverse
Last August, the EPA and the Transportation Department issued a proposal to freeze vehicle tailpipe pollution and fuel efficiency standards, rolling back a 2012 Obama-era rule requiring automakers to boost passenger vehicle fuel economy to a fleetwide average of 54 miles per gallon by 2025. In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece led “Make Cars Great Again” published a few days before the two agencies announced their proposal, Wheeler and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao charged that the Obama-era standards—the first to limit vehicle carbon emissions—are too burdensome for automakers and “raised the cost and decreased the supply of newer, safer vehicles.”
10. Rescinded the Clean Power Plan
Perhaps Wheeler’s most damaging move to date came late last month when he signed a final rule to repeal and replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which would have required coal-fired power plants to dramatically cut their carbon emissions. Yet another gift to the coal industry, Wheeler’s so-called Affordable Clean Energy rule grants states the authority to determine emissions standards but sets no targets, leaving them the option to do absolutely nothing.
“There is no doubt in my mind that under the current administration the EPA is retreating from its historic mission to protect our environment and the health of the public from environmental hazards,” former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, who served under President George W. Bush, stated in her written testimony for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
“This administration, from the beginning, has made no secret of its intention to essentially dismantle the EPA….
Therefore, I urge this committee, in the strongest possible terms, to exercise Congress’s oversight responsibilities over the actions and direction of the EPA.”
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/07/17/10-ways-andrew-wheeler-has-decimated-epa-protections-just-one-year?cd-origin=rss
‘His own fiefdom’: Mulvaney builds ‘an empire for the right wing’ as Trump’s chief of staff
Mulvaney told Acosta in blunt terms that the White House believed he was dragging his feet on regulation rollbacks desired by business interests and that he was on thin ice as a result,
Soon after, Acosta proposed a spate of business-friendly rules on overtime pay andother policies.
... has built what one senior administration official called “his own fiefdom” centered on
pushing conservative policies —
Mulvaney has focused much of his energy on creating a new White House
power center revolving around the long-dormant Domestic Policy Council and
encompassing broad swaths of the administration.
Mulvaney as “building an empire for the right wing.”
He has helped install more than a dozen ideologically aligned advisers in the West Wing
Cabinet members are pressed weekly on what regulations they can strip from the books and have been told
their performance will be judged on how many they remove.
Policy and spending decisions are now made by the White House and dictated to Cabinet agencies,
Democrats openly disdain him as a saboteur,
while many key Republicans distrust his willingness to compromise, particularly on fiscal policy.
Some GOP senators freely signal they would rather deal with any other administration official than him.
Mulvaney’s office has two items with stars beside them: immigration and health care.
Mulvaney’s biggest successes so far have come in deregulation efforts,
where he prods agencies to move faster in case Trump loses or Democrats win the Senate in 2020,
a new rule released in May gives health-care providers, insurers and employers greater la ude to refuse coverage for medical services they say violate their religious or moral beliefs.
White House proposed a rollback of Obama-era rules that banned discrimination against transgender medical patients.
Another rule, also being challenged in the courts, bans taxpayer-funded clinics from making abortion referrals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/his-own-fiefdom-mulvaney-builds-an-empire-for-the-right-wing-as-trumps-chief-of-staff/2019/07/14/85c5ebdc-942b-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fd 100f656501
oligarchy move to destroy govt limiting its wealth
Controversial agency relocation slammed as attack on science by lawmakers, employees
Critics of the Trump administration's efforts say the decision is politically motivated.
Trump administration’s plans to relocate hundreds of positions within two agencies outside of Washington, D.C. — a move some see as an effort to clamp down on science.
While the planned moves of both the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and parts of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) differ in their scope and rationale, resistance to both plans has shaped up similarly.
Critics are expressing concern over the motivations behind the efforts, which would lead to a mass-exodus of agency experts unwilling to relocate. This would spur a science brain drain in line with President Donald Trump’s crackdown on reports and research from within his own government.
https://thinkprogress.org/agricultur...-e8e534ec12fc/
iow, how to fire people, esp scientists and career professionals, aka "ins utional memory", to be replaced, like Jimmy Ricky did in TX, with political stooges.
Conspiracy Theorist Monica Crowley Named To Top Treasury Post
a longtime Fox News contributorwho
has pilloried journalists as “dishonest, hostile, biased, rude fake news” and
has endorsed a series of racist conspiracy theories,
including about President Barack Obama’s “real father.”
At Fox, she was a C-list voice the network’s hosts regularly booked to provide the casual bigotries, hypocrises, talking points, and lies that fuel the Fox propaganda machine.
an additional sign of the unprecedented merger between Fox and the Trump White House.
She is at least the 17th former Fox employee to join the administration
and replaces Tony Sayegh, himself a former Fox contributor.
https://www.nationalmemo.com/conspiracy-theorist-monica-crowley-named-top-treasury-post/?cn-reloaded=1&cn-reloaded=1
Trash collecting turds from the Fox bag network
But illegal immigrants and Iran are huge problems
EPA Rejects Ban On Common Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage in Children
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said it would not ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide used for killing insects, citing a lack of scientific evidence and drawing ire from environmental groups that say it could cause harm to the children of women who are exposed to the pesticide when pregnant.
While the agency banned the indoor use of chlorpyrifos in 2000,
the chemical is still widely used in the agricultural industry to protect crops, especially corn, from insects.
there’s ample scientific evidence to show that chlorpyrifos is dangerous to children’s neurological development, such as a 2006 study that shows that
children who are exposed to chlorpyrifos in the womb are
at risk of delayed physical and mental development as well as attention and hyperactive disorder problems.
In a 2016 memorandum, the EPA itself stated,
“there is evidence of delays in mental development in infants (24-36 months),
attention problems and
autism spectrum disorder in early childhood, and
intelligence decrements in school age children who were exposed to OPs during gestation.”
OP’s refer to organophosphates, a class of chemicals that includes chlorpyrifos.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/leahros.../#595d6acc1026
The oligarchy, BigChem, BigAg buy to have their preferences implemented, while govt ignores the preferences of users.
All y'all Repug supporters voted for damaged babies, right?
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The oligarchy strategy of destroying "the administrative state" for profit
Trump administration forcing agency relocations is a war on government and on science
Donald Trump is doubling down on the decades-long Republican war on government.
He just feels empowered to take it to levels never before conceived of.
Where Republicans previously tried to do it within the normal bounds of the appropriations process,
by starving agencies and forcing attrition,
Trump is doing it by literally playing with employees’ lives.
The administration is relocating two research agencies within the Department of Agriculture from Washington, D.C., to Kansas City
and most of the Bureau of Land Management's D.C. staff to Grand Junction, Colorado.
This means dozens of federal workers who can't just uproot their lives and their families from their homes are leaving the government.
the targeted staff are some of the leading experts in their agencies,
scientists and regulators who've made their careers in public service.
It's a war on government and a war on science.
"These decisions […] are meant to displace seasoned scientists and regulators who have honorably served Republican and Democratic Administrations alike,"
"This Administration is acting to undermine the subject-matter experts at many of our federal agencies,"
Employees in these two agencies have been issuing
reports and conducting studies showing the impact that Trump's trade war with China and
his environmental policies have been having on agriculture in particular.
The workers rightly see these relocations as retribution.
Democrats in control of the House, is to block funding for the relocations,
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1872994
Will the candy-assed Dems block funding of Reugs' hardball? My guess is no.
Why does Trump want son of late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia to join his Cabinet?
President Trump has tapped Eugene Scalia to be his new labor secretary
Bush nominated Scalia only a month after he helped overturn a broad Labor Department compliance program on workplace safety standards.
Scalia argued at the time that ergonomics rules intended to prevent repe ive-motion injuries were based on "thoroughly unreliable science."
Bush used a recess appointment in January 2002 to install Scalia, who
faced opposition from Democrats, labor unions and worker advocates,
his experience and record suggest a hostility to the laws he would be sworn to uphold.
To date, his positions have been in
direct opposition to workers' safety,
the ADA,
sexual harassment claims, and
other worker protections,"
Scalia worked for the Justice Department, serving as a special assistant to Attorney General William Barr
Scalia has earned a reputation for his challenges to federal regulators on behalf of corporate clients.
Scalia's law firm biography cites his "success bringing legal challenges to federal agency actions."
He represented Wal-Mart in 2006 against a law in Maryland that would have required the retail giant to spend more more money on health care for its employees.
The Wall Street Journal described him as "one of the industry's go-to guys for challenging financial regulations,"
"Suing the Government? Call Scalia!"
Scalia has also defended Boeing Co. in a challenge by the National Labor Relations Board
and SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. in a case against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration following the death of a trainer by a killer whale.
Scalia also played a key role in getting a federal judge to void the Labor Department's "fiduciary rule,"
Scalia called the law a "regulatory Godzilla — an extraordinary example of disregard for limitations imposed by Congress and the Cons ution."
https://www.salon.com/2019/07/19/why-does-trump-want-son-of-late-supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-to-join-his-cabinet/
Just another oligarchy nomination meant to destroy his department, always support Capital ing over Labor
Giving “Upper Hand to Corporate Polluters,” EPA Drops Surprise Inspections
a new “no surprises” policy stopping unannounced visits to power, chemical and waste facilities.
“The Trump
@EPA is just chucking aside any flimsy pretense that they care about upholding environmental laws, enforcing against big polluters, or protecting Americans,”
“Giving a courtesy heads up to suspected *ongoing* lawbreakers is beyond the pale even for the Trump @EPA.”
would likely undermine the mission of protecting the environment.
The group also pointed to its
finding earlier this month that
criminal pollution enforcement under Trump’s EPA is at record low levels.
“If it were up to me,” hewrote,
“I’d want the people who own power plants and chemical factories
to wake up every morning in cold dread that
someone from the Environmental Protection Agency might drop buy
to see what corners we’ve been cutting recently.
That way, I suspect, fertilizer plants would be less likely to blow up and take entire towns with them.”
https://truthout.org/articles/giving...e-inspections/
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Eugene Scalia, Trump's pick to head the Labor Department, scares worker advocates to death
- Workers' rights groups and Senate Democrats are objecting to the nomination of Eugene Scalia to head the Labor Department, pointing to his career as a lawyer defending big business.
- Scalia led the charge against a proposed rule that would have required 401(k) plan managers to act in the best interests of their investors.
- He also worked to weaken parts of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul bill and Clinton-era rules designed to prevent repe ive stress injuries at work.
President Donald Trump's move this week to tap attorney Eugene Scalia to head the U.S. Department of Labor is causing worker advocates to sound the alarm.
Scalia, whose father is late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, is a career corporate lawyer most of whose professional life has focused on representing big companies in their fights with consumers, employees or government regulators.
The National Employment Law Project noted that
Scalia "has spent his entire career fighting for big businesses and against working people,"
while the left-leaning Economic Policy Ins ute called Mr. Trump's choice
"another fox-guarding-the-hen house selection that defines the Trump cabinet."
And prominent Senate Democrats have stated their opposition to Scalia's nomination.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eugene-scalia-trumps-labor-secretary-scares-worker-advocates-to-death/
How much damage to Labor can yet another Capital stooge kakistocrat do in 18 months?
Will he get grilled by Congress, are just "acting" for 18 months?
Democratic Rep. Robert Scott says Trump education official lied to Congress
That the Department of Education under Trump appointee Betsy DeVos, a longtime advocate of for-profit education companies, would apparently bend over backward to try to save a struggling for-profit education company is not surprising.
The frequent failures of for-profit efforts, and
their often-dismal actual educational outcomes,
continue to complicate privatization proponents' efforts
to whittle down the nation's public education system in favor of something it is easier to squeeze money out of
.one of DeVos' underlings lied to Congress about actions the department took to bail out Dream Center Education Holdings, a megachurch foray into the world of for-profit trade schools.
Former for-profit college lobbyist Diane Auer Jones, now installed as the head of the department's higher education policy, told the House Oversight Committee that
a new policy allowing schools which had lost their accreditations to be "retroactively" re-accredited had, quote,
"nothing to do with the Dream Center,"
and that she did not even know the company was in an accreditation crisis when the policy was being crafted.
The chairman of the House Education Committee, Democratic Rep. Robert Scott of Virginia, uncovered internal Dream Center do ents that seem to indicate
Jones was lying outright about both those things.
As reported by The New York Times,
the do ents show that Jones was personally in contact with accreditors about Dream Center's problems—
a week before Jones claimed she first learned of the company's troubles.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/24/1873902/-Democratic-Rep-Robert-Scott-says-Trump-education-official-lied-to-Congress
Perjury but nobody's will be punished.
"He Might've Stayed a Minute": Coal Miners With Black Lung Slam McConnell for Brushing Them Off in Healthcare Meeting
"It was a worthless trip, that's the way I feel,"
A group of retired Kentucky coal miners suffering from incurable black lung disease
slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for brushing them off on Tuesday after
they asked the Republican to commit to funding their medical care.
Around 120 miners and their families traveled to Washington, D.C. this week to meet with the Kentucky Republican and
pressure him to take action to finance the federal Black Lung Disability Trust Fund,
which serves as a lifeline for an estimated 12,000former coal miners nationwide.
The miners said McConnell was "rude" during their meeting and quickly left after delivering a brief statement.
"We rode up here for 10 hours by bus to get some answers from him because he represents our state," George Massey, a miner from Harlan County, Kentucky, told the Lexington Herald-Leader.
"For him to come in for just two minutes was a low-down shame."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/24/he-mightve-stayed-minute-coal-miners-black-lung-slam-mcconnell-brushing-them
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Why 25,000 Coal Miners Diagnosed With Black Lung Could Lose Federal Help Paying for Treatment
the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, which was established in 1978 and finances workers’ black lung disease claims through a tax on per-ton sales by coal mine operators, is in danger of drying up by 2020,
A 2018 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that
at least one in 10 coal miners who had worked in the mines for at least a quarter-century had black lung and in Appalachia,
that rate skyrocketed to one in five.
That’s the highest-ever recorded level of the condition, and
many cases are being diagnosed in younger workers, well under that 25-year threshold.
One reason the Fund is in danger of being depleted by the middle of 2020 is due to the 2018 government shutdown, which cut the necessary tax as of Jan. 1, and it has yet to be restored.
https://fortune.com/2019/03/19/donald-trump-coal-miners-black-lung-disease-disability/
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President Trump's Budget Proposes Eliminating This Commission. 95% of Counties It Helps Voted for Him
President Donald Trump’s budget, ... calls for the elimination of the Appalachian Regional Commission, an organization that has helped support the economies of Appalachia for over 40 years.
ARC is among several regional commissions the White House is proposing to eliminate
Trump’s popularity in Appalachia was well do ented throughout the campaign,
a commission that was devoted to helping the people in these economies will be eliminated.
Since October 2015, the ARC has supported 55 projects in West Virginia that will retain more than 2,700 jobs and educate thousands of workers across the state.
https://time.com/4793315/donald-trump-budget-appalachian-regional-commission/
SURPRISE: TRUMP’S TREASURY PICK SAID OBAMA WAS A MUSLIM WHO TOOK ORDERS FROM TERRORISTS
, the path to employment comes down to being able to answer one or more of the following questions in the affirmative:
1) Are you diametrically opposed to the mission of the agency at which you’ll be employed?
2) Are you willing to be slavishly devoted to Donald Trump?
3) Are you rich?
4) Are you racist?
All of which is to say, it’s easy to see why
Monica Crowley was hired to serve as Trump’s assistant Treasury secretary for public affairs,
and—spoiler alert!—it’s not her deep knowledge of fiscal policy.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/monica-crowley-barack-obama?mbid=nl_th_5d3a2553475c1a0008814899&CNDID=43 758549&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=vf&utm_mailing=VF_H ive_072619&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bd6795524c17c104 8022fcc&cndid=43758549&hasha=992d608214b505003aa04 bf10a595031&hashb=542eb31d958e85ddd5a4c3ccf3faae18 526a77bd&hashc=54b3612ab970ce13a64a16665b1987080ca 5b72e2ee762b722fbba6ab378f2f5&esrc=bounceX&utm_cam paign=VF_Hive_072619&utm_term=VYF_Hive
echo chamber from !
Critics shred Interior Dept.'s management plan for downsized Bears Ears Nat'l Monument
American Indian tribes, environmental activists, and eco-minded politicians are blasting the Department of Interior’s newly released management plan for the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.
Among other things,
the plan allows extensive logging,
widespread use of off-road vehicles,
and chaining
—the mechanical clearing of land by attaching a chain to two vehicles that drag it along the ground to rip out brush and other plants, a method that is cheap but especially damaging to sensitive areas.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1874647
Predatory Capitalists intend to destroy the "commons" for profit. Oligarchy's Repugs say "Go right ahead"
Ohio just passed the worst energy bill of the 21st century
A corrupt bailout for dinosaur power plants that screws renewable energy in the process.
Bail out two nuclear plants
Bail out two coal plants
Gut renewable energy standards
Gut energy efficiency standards
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-envir...efficiency-hb6
Ida Ho is 89% white
Idaho Republican Explains 'Diversity' Is Bad For America, Because Cows
the interim president of Boise State University said in a June newsletter that diversity and inclusion were good things, and outlined a few things the university was doing to promote a diverse student body and faculty.
A rightwing group, the Idaho Freedom (for white people) Foundation, angrily denounced the newsletter as a shocking attempt to "pander to leftist ideologues with radical views of 'inclusivity.'"
didn't "reflect Idaho values.
Twenty-seven other Republican House members signed on to Ehardt's letter,
diversity is actually very divisive and racist!This drive to create a diversified and inclusive culture becomes divisive and exclusionary because it separates and segregates students.Ehardt thinks all sort of things are "segregation," and "an hetical to the Idaho way," among them,
• Support for multicultural student events including Pow Wow, Rainbow Graduation, Black Graduation, Project Dream, etc. instead of helping all students;The letter was also very bothered by other insanely lavish spending on "diversity," like these:
• Six graduate fellowships for "underrepresented minority students" instead of merit-based awards;
• A gender-based violence community-coordinated response team, instead of letting the police handle the matter;
• $25,000 to be allocated to departments to expand their searches through additional media advertising to attract a more diverse pool of candidates;
• $30,000 from Student Affairs to support multicultural student events, including Pow Wow, Rainbow Graduation, Black Graduation, Project Dream;
• A program that forces Boise State students to financially support the food pantry, housing, emergency loans to students, and more—even as they struggle to pay for their own tuition!
Why, yes, that would be out of a total FY 2019 Boise State University budget request of over $234.5 million.
Moyle got weird, explaining there's nothing "racist" about signing on to a letter claiming that
diversity is a form of segregation, and pointing out that a university is really a lot like his ranch:
"I've got red cattle out there, I've got black cattle out there. ... It doesn't matter, they're all cattle" he said.https://www.wonkette.com/idaho-repub...a-because-cows
"It's really easy to call somebody a racist because they don't like the way the words were written."
Here's the coal ash fest we get when Trash sends a BigCoal stooge to run (down) the EPA even more.
EPA proposal scraps limits on coal plant waste
The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed scrapping restrictions on arsenic-laden waste from coal-fired power plants.
is filled with hazardous substances that can leach into the water supply and cause health problems.
“I can say without hesitation that this is an extremely dangerous proposal that will do lasting harm to communities near coal ash reuse sites and coal ash waste piles,”
coal ash has been deemed responsible for contaminating water with arsenic, which is linked with some types of cancer.
eliminate restrictions from 2015 that limited coal ash use to 12,400 tons per site.
The Trump administration proposal would allow projects to use as much coal ash as they want but would have to file a demonstration that shows the project won’t cause harm if it’s close to certain features like groundwater or wetlands.
“That demonstration doesn’t have to be defended to any regulatory agency or be posted for public notice or be written by any engineer or environmental professional,”
“Today the Agency is proposing sensible changes that will improve the coal ash regulations and continue to encourage appropriate beneficial use,”
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheelersaid in a statement.
“These proposed changes will further responsible management of coal ash while protecting human health and the environment.”
Wheeler is giving this gift to his former employers at the cost of public health,”
“It is a disgrace to everything the EPA stands for,
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-en...al-plant-waste
Trump administration is trying to kill beloved labor symbol ‘Scabby the Rat’ in free speech attack on unions
Through a labor board it controls,
the Trump administration is trying to kill a beloved union symbol, Scabby the Rat.
This latest attack on the First Amendment free speech rights of workers is part of its effort to
convert our government’s Department of Labor into the Department of Bad Management.
the giant inflatable rat is in real danger of extermination by Trump, never a friend of labor.
The Trump administration claims that the inflatable is a menace to business, so harmful that it must be destroyed.
Unions fly Scabby in front of unsafe and anti-union company facilities to shame companies into improving conditions for workers and alert consumers to bad businesses.
his administration is focused
on shrinking rights to overtime pay,
decertifying unions and
moving millions of working people from employees with at least some legal protections
into the gig economy as “independent contractors” without even the possibility of union rights.
Trump-dominated National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is trying to murder Scabby, establishing that this peaceful expression of free speech rights is effective in advancing the interests of working people.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/tru...e+Raw+Story%29
Fox News’ Tomi Lahren slammed for sexist comments about Kamala Harris: ‘Sick and disgusting!’
Tomi Lahren
✔ TomiLahren
Kamala did you fight for ideals or did you sleep your way to the top with Willie Brown?
7:26 PM - Jul 31, 2019
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Rocky Mountain Views@RockyMountViews
Replying to TomiLahren
So, Kamala Harris has a law degree, she was a prosecutor in California, she is a US Senator and is now running for president.
Tomi stuck a gun down her pants.
Who do you think is a more capable human being?
7:51 PM - Jul 31, 2019
Trump administration reopens "longline" fishing
Move will further endanger the rapidly declining population of giant leatherback sea turtles.
https://www.salon.com/2019/07/20/tru...shing_partner/
Trash/Repug vicious, murderous kakistocracy destroying everything they can, and that will accelerate as the end approaches of Trash's Reign of -Everything
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