One of these days, maybe the country will learn to pay attention the first time when President Obama tells it something
Like – all the way to the bottom – the man is telling people straight out WHY the oligarchy is doing what it’s doing
“Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.”
NYT: "President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet. Reversing the endangerment finding has been seen as the holy grail for those who deny the science of climate change.
“This is about as big as it gets,” President Trump said at the White House as a smiling Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, stood by. “We are officially terminating the so-called ‘endangerment finding,’ a disastrous Obama-era policy,” he said. Mr. Trump called it a “radical rule” that became “the basis for the Green New Scam,” a label the president gives to any effort to curb emissions or develop renewable energy. Mr. Zeldin called it “the single largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States.” He accused Democrats of having launched an “ideological crusade” on climate change that “strangled entire sectors of the United States economy,” particularly the auto industry.
In discarding the endangerment finding, Mr. Zeldin is reversing positions he took as a member of Congress from Long Island from 2019 to 2023. During that time, he voted several times to address climate change, including a vote against an amendment to a spending bill that would have prohibited the E.P.A. from applying the endangerment finding. He even joined the Climate Solutions Caucus, a bipartisan group of House members.
On Fox Business on Wednesday, Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, revived a debunked myth to sum up how the Trump administration views carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. “CO2 was never a pollutant,” he said. “When we breathe, we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to survive and grow. They thrive with more CO2.”
The United States is currently the world’s second-largest climate polluter (after China) but is the nation that has pumped the most greenhouse gases into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution."
The military is probably really pissed about this. Coal is stupid and expensive, and the military is ALL about renewable energy because it improves security.
Why is he so fixated on coal? It’s not like there are that many coal miners in West Virginia anymore, or mine owners wealthy enough to make up a large portion of his donors.
Every so often I get a mailer from some company that purports to sell "green energy," i.e., electricity exclusively from wind and solar. If only I pay their higher rate, I can feel good knowing that my electricity is made in environmentally sound ways.
I always chuck those in the garbage because yeah, right. No consumer can possibly know where their electricity comes from, and I would bet anything that all those clowns do is pay your Edison bill and pocket what's left over.
So maybe someone will start a similar thing for wingnuts: Electricity solely from coal-fired plants. Pay a surcharge to stick it to the libs!
What the hell, it might very well be the same people who put together that "green electricity" bullshit.
The US military is a great counterpoint to silly conspiracy theories about free energy machines, 100 mpg carburetors, and so on. If such things existed the US military would use them, and we'd all know. Because being able to pull energy out of thin air would be a dream for military logistics officers.
Fucking Coalie. When I was in elementary school in the 70s we were shown cartoon videos about energy options. The oil and coal characters were the bad guys.
There was even a cartoon in the 70s about hippie condors fighting to save their home from developers. How they were able to fly wearing bell bottom jeans I will never know.
One of these days, maybe the country will learn to pay attention the first time when President Obama tells it something
Like – all the way to the bottom – the man is telling people straight out WHY the oligarchy is doing what it’s doing
“Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.”
https://bsky.app/profile/barackobama.bsky.social/post/3meoqyuljt22y
NYT: "President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet. Reversing the endangerment finding has been seen as the holy grail for those who deny the science of climate change.
“This is about as big as it gets,” President Trump said at the White House as a smiling Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, stood by. “We are officially terminating the so-called ‘endangerment finding,’ a disastrous Obama-era policy,” he said. Mr. Trump called it a “radical rule” that became “the basis for the Green New Scam,” a label the president gives to any effort to curb emissions or develop renewable energy. Mr. Zeldin called it “the single largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States.” He accused Democrats of having launched an “ideological crusade” on climate change that “strangled entire sectors of the United States economy,” particularly the auto industry.
In discarding the endangerment finding, Mr. Zeldin is reversing positions he took as a member of Congress from Long Island from 2019 to 2023. During that time, he voted several times to address climate change, including a vote against an amendment to a spending bill that would have prohibited the E.P.A. from applying the endangerment finding. He even joined the Climate Solutions Caucus, a bipartisan group of House members.
On Fox Business on Wednesday, Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, revived a debunked myth to sum up how the Trump administration views carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. “CO2 was never a pollutant,” he said. “When we breathe, we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to survive and grow. They thrive with more CO2.”
The United States is currently the world’s second-largest climate polluter (after China) but is the nation that has pumped the most greenhouse gases into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution."
I have my doubts that Trump has ever actually been in the same room as a lump of coal, much less ever touched one.
It's because coal lumps don't generally hang together, do they
"...which Trump, Wright, and other fossil fools have hankered to do since Day One."
"...since DICTATOR Day One." Fixed it for you.
People didn't believe it even though he told everyone to their faces
The military is probably really pissed about this. Coal is stupid and expensive, and the military is ALL about renewable energy because it improves security.
They were apparently all in on green energy
But remember who is nominally in control of the military
Hagueseth has them all retrofitting and reversing course -- because it's all about the money laundering
just like President Obama already told everybody but White Americans don't want to listen because they think they know better
and people aren't going to learn until it's too late
Why is he so fixated on coal? It’s not like there are that many coal miners in West Virginia anymore, or mine owners wealthy enough to make up a large portion of his donors.
money laundering
https://www.wonkette.com/p/donald-trump-orders-pentagon-buy/comment/213735746
https://www.wonkette.com/p/donald-trump-orders-pentagon-buy/comment/213734548
Every so often I get a mailer from some company that purports to sell "green energy," i.e., electricity exclusively from wind and solar. If only I pay their higher rate, I can feel good knowing that my electricity is made in environmentally sound ways.
I always chuck those in the garbage because yeah, right. No consumer can possibly know where their electricity comes from, and I would bet anything that all those clowns do is pay your Edison bill and pocket what's left over.
So maybe someone will start a similar thing for wingnuts: Electricity solely from coal-fired plants. Pay a surcharge to stick it to the libs!
What the hell, it might very well be the same people who put together that "green electricity" bullshit.
“Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal”
Jesus wept
IG Farben II: Electric Boogaloo?
“Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal”
Does it come with a dose of black lung?
It seems that cute little Coalie has worked his magic on somebody!
You know who else turned to coal to help power their military...
Lenin!
Another thing he can't take with him when he croaks.
The US military is a great counterpoint to silly conspiracy theories about free energy machines, 100 mpg carburetors, and so on. If such things existed the US military would use them, and we'd all know. Because being able to pull energy out of thin air would be a dream for military logistics officers.
Fucking Coalie. When I was in elementary school in the 70s we were shown cartoon videos about energy options. The oil and coal characters were the bad guys.
There was even a cartoon in the 70s about hippie condors fighting to save their home from developers. How they were able to fly wearing bell bottom jeans I will never know.
"...no matter how much Trump may lie about Democrats doing a “war on coal.”
TFG is slipping; he's never once mentioned the Dems War On Buggy Whips.