Trash administration rejects tougher standards on soot, a deadly air pollutant
“People of color and the poor — that is who gets hit the hardest by this,”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...air-pollution/
Environmental Protection Agency scientists estimate that
lowering the standard could save up to 34,600 lives per year,
but the EPA’s final decision claims that existing, higher standards set in 2012 are adequate to protect human health.
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100Ms of tire particles polluting air, land, water
Scientists solve mystery of mass Coho salmon deaths.
The killer? A chemical from car tires
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-scient...ho-salmon.html
also, soot from tires is a problem
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Trash and Repugs poisoning government with poison pills, harming and killing people and the environment
Trump EPA finalizes rollback making it harder to enact new public health rules
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...-air-pollution
Capitalism, Capitalists, the oligarchy, BigCorp
Will the Dems annul this Repug ?
Ditzy DeVos won’t be missed.
Here are some of her policies that need to be reversed.
1. Her changes to le IX stripped away civil rights of students
2. DeVos proposed massive cuts to the Dept. of Ed
3. She stood against survivors of sexual assault
4. She consistently took shots at special education funding
5. Ditzy DeVos made the student debt crisis worse
https://progresstexas.org/blog/betsy...KkfNp&rd=1&t=6
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"She has investments in companies that hound students to pay their federal loan debts,"
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-postsecondary/news/2017/01/27/297572/inside-the-financial-holdings-of-billionaire-betsy-devos/
Betsy DeVos Warns That Biden Will Pick Education Secretary with Background in Education
WASHINGTON —Calling the prospect a “nightmare scenario,” Betsy DeVos warned that President-elect Joe Biden will pick an Education Secretary with a background in education.
The outgoing Education Secretary warned that
putting someone with a “pro-education bias” in her job would be like “naming a fox to be Secretary of Hens.”
“For the past four years,
I have worked tirelessly to keep our schools free from education,” she said.
“It deeply saddens me to think that all of my hard work will go to waste.”
Even more alarming, she said,
Biden may name a “knowledgeable person” to replace her, a decision she called “disastrous.”
“In order to be impartial toward education, an Education Secretary must be as ignorant as possible,” she said.
“I don’t mean to boast, but I am going to be a tough act to follow in that respect.”
In total, she said, Biden’s plans for education may be the “most radical aspect” of the Democratic Party agenda.
“Forget about defunding the police,” she said.
“He is talking about funding the schools.”
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/betsy-devos-warns-that-biden-will-pick-education-secretary-with-background-in-education
Trump vetoes bipartisan driftnet fishing bill
would gradually eliminate the use of large-scale driftnet fishing in federal waters off the coast of California.
“By forcing the West Coast drift gillnet fishery to use alternative gear that has not been proven to be an economically viable subs ute for gillnets,
the Congress is effectively terminating the fishery,” the president said in a statement.
“As a result, an estimated 30 fishing vessels, all of which are operated by family-owned small businesses, will no longer be able to bring their bounty to shore.”
The measure passed both houses of Congress with bipartisan support last month.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-en...t-fishing-bill
Gray Wolves Lose Federal Endangered Species Act Protections
applies to all gray wolves in the lower 48 states
despite the lack of scientific evidence showing true recovery across gray wolves’ historic range.
Starting today, management of wolf populations will return to
individual state wildlife agencies, some of which are already reinstating hunting and trapping season on wolves.
//www.commondreams.org/newswire/2021/01/04/gray-wolves-lose-federal-endangered-species-act-protections?cd-origin=rss
Repugs/oligarchy, death and destruction for profit
Biden kills the EPA "secret science" Trash crap
Federal Agencies Have Lost Hundreds of Scientists Since 2017.
An analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists reveals that federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) have lost hundreds of scientists since 2017.
https://blog.ucsusa.org/taryn-mackin...hat-comes-next
Capitalist profits over life, of all kinds
Former Trump official hid cancer risk info from Illinois community
Trump administration officials withheld information about carcinogenic pollution from Illinois communities.
"Bill Wehrum, who served as assistant administrator of the office of Air and Radiation until 2019,
kept information from residents of Willowbrook, Illinois, about results of air monitoring that showed they had an elevated risk of cancer due to ethylene oxide from a local sterilizing plant,
Measurements of ethylene oxide around the since-closed plant were conducted in 2018 and showed an elevated risk of cancer due to the gas.
directed the regional administrator not to release the results to the public, according to the report," Lerner writes.
"Before serving as head of EPA's Office of Air and Radiation,
Wehrum was a lobbyist who represented chemical and oil companies."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epa-appointee
Andy Borowitz
Ron DeSantis Signs Law Designating Any Gathering Of Three Democrats A Riot
Trump administration sidelined experts in writing car pollution rules, EPA watchdog finds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...watchdog-finds
Hopefully they will bounce back.Federal Agencies Have Lost Hundreds of Scientists Since 2017.
An analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists reveals that federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) have lost hundreds of scientists since 2017.
https://blog.ucsusa.org/taryn-mackin...hat-comes-next
I have always said that the modern conservative movement is, at its core, anti-science.
It does not surprise me that the most "conservative" presidency in modern memory would be the most virulently anti-science and anti-truth.
As you say that behind your 2 masks and 50 genders.
passed by unanimous consent.KY Senators working hard for the Black Vote
It's 2020, and
the Senate won't pass an anti-lynching bill
because of Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act passed the Democratic House 410-4on Feb. 26
When the Senate tried to pass it this year with unanimous consent, Sen. Rand Paul objected.
"language of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act is
IDENTICAL to the bill that was unanimously approved by the Senate."
Twice, in fact.
"The only conclusion I can draw from [Paul's] sudden opposition is
he has an issue with the House bill being named after Emmett Till."
McConnell, could also just bring the damn bill to the floor for a roll call vote.
But right now McConnell and the rest of the them are hiding behind Paul.
They're letting his punchable face be the one of white supremacy,
protecting them from having to take
this vote that could anger their racist base.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/4/1950391/-It-s-2020-and-the-Senate-won-t-pass-an-anti-lynching-bill-because-of-Rand-Paul-and-Mitch-McConnell?detail=emaildkre
there have been ~200 previous attempts to pass a federal anti-lynching law. all of them failed.
I am mildly surprised. I was beginning to think the fascist party was totally morally bankrupt.
Seems to have done something right despite themselves.
San Antonio's Chip Roy voted against the lynching Bill saying it was woke bull
Lynchings still happens in America. It's just now cops shooting blacks dead
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