God’s wrath? 
Great progress by the new Administration
The New York Times today listed these ten Day 1 Trump initiatives:
- Withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, the pact among almost all nations to fight climate change.
- Declare a national energy emergency, a first in U.S. history, which could unlock new powers to suspend certain environmental rules or expedite permitting of certain mining projects.
- Attempt to reverse Mr. Biden’s ban on offshore drilling for 625 million acres of federal waters.
- Begin the repeal of Biden-era regulations on tailpipe pollution from cars and light trucks, which have encouraged automakers to manufacture more electric vehicles.
- Roll back energy-efficiency regulations for dishwashers, shower heads and gas stoves.
- Open the Alaska wilderness to more oil and gas drilling.
- Restart reviews of new export terminals for liquefied natural gas, something the Biden administration had paused.
- Halt the leasing of federal waters for offshore wind farms.
- Eliminate environmental justice programs across the government, which are aimed at protecting poor communities from excess pollution.
- Review all federal regulations that impose an “undue burden” on the development or use of a variety of energy sources, particularly coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear power, hydropower and biofuels.
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You gave me a scare with this one – I thought he forgot washing machines! He didn’t:
I can get behind washing machines and shower heads, those are super annoying (thankfully it’s easy to remove or replace the flow limiter on most faucets and shower heads). Going back on lightbulbs is dumb though – LEDs are way better.
Yeah, let the poors breathe it in and die early. That’ll show 'em.
The title given by the NY times is propaganda. Here’s another list with more detail. Most of these “environmental justice” executive orders are about carbon dioxide and climate change…
- Executive Order 13990 of January 20, 2021 (Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis).
- Executive Order 14008 of January 27, 2021 (Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad). (Grants under the Justice40 Programs established under EO 14008 are discussed here.)
- Executive Order 14027 of May 7, 2021 (Establishment of the Climate Change Support Office).
- Executive Order 14037 of August 5, 2021 (Strengthening American Leadership in Clean Cars and Trucks).
- Executive Order 14052 of November 15, 2021 (Implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act).
- Executive Order 14057 of December 8, 2021 (Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs through Federal Sustainability).
- Executive Order 14082 of September 15, 2022 (Implementation of the Energy and Infrastructure Provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022).
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Perhaps. But the few you omitted were specifically about protecting poorer neighborhoods, which are impacted disproportionately by pollution and climate change.
This could be huge
The Washington Post published a report today stating that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has advised the Trump administration to repeal the 2009 “endangerment finding,” which classifies greenhouse gases as a threat to public health and welfare. This finding has underpinned federal emissions regulations for over a decade. The Post suggests that such a move, if enacted, would mark a significant shift in U.S. climate policy. The story relies on unnamed sources, leaving its claims unverified but noteworthy given the potential implications.
The Post article indicates that Trump administration officials are evaluating whether to reverse the endangerment finding, a determination first made under the Obama administration and later used by the Biden administration to impose limits on vehicle and power plant emissions. The report cites “three individuals briefed on the matter” who mention Mandy Gunasekara, a former EPA chief of staff and contributor to Project 2025, and Jonathan Brightbill, a former Justice Department official, as advisors involved in the effort. On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order directing EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to assess the finding’s “legality and continuing applicability” within 30 days, with recommendations submitted to Russell Vought at the Office of Management and Budget. The EPA has not released these recommendations, and spokeswoman Molly Vaseliou declined to comment beyond confirming compliance with the order.
Because the Washington Post bases its account on three anonymous individuals rather than named officials or documented evidence. The absence of specific documentation or on-the-record statements from Gunasekara, Brightbill, or others named in the story leaves the report’s foundation uncertain, though not necessarily inaccurate.
CA fire policy discussion - interview and transcript
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Interview with Matt Weiner, the CEO and founder of Megafire Action. He had a very interesting job, advising all California congressional Democrats on policy issues, including the topic of wildfires.
- The 2020 fires alone wiped out 20 years of gains on California carbon emissions.
- The Clean Air Act penalizes a state for controlled burns, which count towards emissions they’re allowed to have, but not for letting wildfires happen.
- The permitting issue is absolutely huge. Of four major wildfires since 1999, each of the areas was in the midst of a National Forest Service assessment on whether authorities could do controlled burns when it happened. The “expedited” reviews take 180 days, the norm being much longer.
- how broken the California insurance market is.
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Nothing more important than giving billions to the friends of the last admin under the guise of Climate Justice.
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the fund was supposed to be a “first-of-its-kind” program to address the climate crisis while revitalizing communities that it considered “historically left behind.”
But it appears little of the $27 billion revitalized anything—except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden administration officials.
“The Biden administration used so-called ‘climate equity’ to justify handouts of billions of dollars to their far-left friends,” Lee Zeldin, the Trump administration’s new EPA administrator, told The Free Press . “It is my utmost priority to get a handle on every dollar that went out the door in this scheme and once again restore oversight and accountability over these funds. This rush job operation is riddled with conflicts of interest and corruption.”
A Free Press investigation reveals that of the $27 billion, $20 billion was rushed out the door to eight nonprofit groups after Kamala Harris lost the election—but before President Donald Trump took office. As one former EPA official put it on a secretly recorded video, it was akin to “tossing gold bars off the Titanic.”
Several of them were formed in August of 2023, just one month after the grant applications went live in July of 2023, when it became clear that large nine- and 10-figure grants would be up for grabs. The boards and staff of these eight groups include Democratic donors, people with connections to the Obama and Biden administrations, and prominent Democrats like Stacey Abrams.
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More details on those ngo’s created to take $10B’s worth
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Climate slush fund frozen from further payouts pending a criminal investigation.
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Looks like EV’s saving the world from the Climate Emergency no longer applies if you don’t like the EV company. Far left terrorists have been shooting up and setting fire to Tesla dealerships since Musk is now Hitler in their minds.
That’s some serious fire -
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1902079639369162966
DOJ not fooling around, issues statement on these attacks as domestic terrorism.
That cartoon is a little funny, but likely false. I seriously doubt that anyone concerned about the climate would be angry and dumb enough to set a huge lithium battery on fire. Other kinds of damage – sure, just not fire.