Tag: Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Rescinds Ruling Allowing Government To Regulate Greenhouse Gases

Source: ozgurdonmaz / Getty It’s been said before, but I’ll say it again: the Republican Party is a death cult. So many of the moves made by the Trump administration actively endanger the lives of Americans. President Donald Trump’s second term has seen the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) completely abandon environmental protection. On Thursday, EPA […]

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Trump Shackles EPA and Blows Up Key Pillar in Climate Change Fight

“Against this backdrop, and mindful of the flagrancy of the Government’s violations of the deportees’ due-process rights that landed Plaintiffs in this situation, the Court refuses to let them languish in the solution-less mire Defendants propose,” Boasberg wrote. If the government still has any of the men’s passports and identification documents, it has to return […]

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Trump Wipes Out EPA’s Power to Fight Climate Change

“Against this backdrop, and mindful of the flagrancy of the Government’s violations of the deportees’ due-process rights that landed Plaintiffs in this situation, the Court refuses to let them languish in the solution-less mire Defendants propose,” Boasberg wrote. If the government still has any of the men’s passports and identification documents, it has to return […]

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Authoritarianism Is Climate Policy

The MAHA movement associated with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has always had, shall we say, an above-average rate of producing strange bedfellows. In their pursuit of healthy lifestyles, these groups and influencers advocate vaccine and pharmaceutical skepticism; ridding the nation’s water supplies of both fluoride and the abortion drug mifepristone; […]

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EPA Air Pollution Restrictions No Longer Consider Human Cost

Source: Douglas Rissing / Getty The GOP is never beating the death cult allegations. In a move completely antithetical to the agency’s entire purpose, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will no longer factor the monetary benefits to human health when crafting restrictions on air pollutants.  According to The New York Times, the […]

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MAHA Is Coming for the EPA’s Lee Zeldin

Even if you live outside one of those states, the federal tax credits never went away. “It’s going to take an act of Congress to change that,” Friedman said. And even if Congress were to repeal this particular part of the IRA, “it’s pretty rare and honestly would be pretty painful to take away a […]

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Trump Seems to Be Trying His Best to Give Us All Cancer

Also this month, the Trump Administration filed a brief supporting Monsanto in its attempt to get the Supreme Court to shield it from liability over cancer allegedly caused by Roundup, its notorious weedkiller containing glyphosate. Trump’s EPA says federal regulation forecloses the possibility of a liability lawsuit in this case, and that there is not […]

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IRS Could Claim Millions From Flint Water Crisis Settlement 

Source: GEOFF ROBINS / Getty Over a decade after the Flint water crisis came to light, residents aren’t the only ones waiting for their cut of a partial settlement totaling $626.25 million. According to the Detroit Free Press, the IRS is waiting for its cut of long-overdue monetary atonement to residents.  “Uncle Sam has yet […]

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Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War

When nearly 200 nations signed the 2015 Paris Agreement, acknowledging the threat of rising global temperatures and vowing action, many hoped that the era of climate denial was finally over. Ten years later it has roared back, arguably stronger than ever. As delegates wrapped the annual United Nations climate talks last Saturday, those who have […]

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“Do Something B*tch”: Damning Video Shows CBP Agent Shooting Protester

“I spoke to the governor, she was very nice,” Trump said at the time, referring to a phone call he had with Oregon Governor Tina Kotek. “But I said, ‘Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different.’ They are literally attacking and […]

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Fox News Accidentally Exposes EPA Chief’s Lies in Live Interview

“Remember, while India is our friend, we have, over the years, done relatively little business with them because their Tariffs are far too high, among the highest in the World, and they have the most strenuous and obnoxious non-monetary Trade Barriers of any Country,” Trump wrote in an earlier post. “Also, they have always bought […]

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Trump’s EPA Plans to Kill Rule Critical to Fighting Climate Change

“It’s really disheartening to see President Trump just declare that to be a hoax. I don’t think it is. And I think it’s going to cause him trouble in his own base. It already is,” he continued, per the Beast. “Someone in his circle has convinced him that, ‘Oh this is like Hunter Biden’s laptop […]

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Maryland’s Gov. Wes Moore Signs Environmental Justice EO

Source: Arturo Holmes / Getty Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed an executive order Thursday restoring an Environmental Justice map that had briefly gone defunct due to changes within the federal government.  According to Maryland Matters, the state first revealed its Environmental Justice Screening tool in 2022. The map, which originally relied on federal data, allowed […]

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EPA Punishes Employees Who Sent Zeldin “Declaration of Dissent”

Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is on its way to his desk thanks to a 218-214 vote in the House. MAGA representatives, however, could hardly wait after the vote was over to reveal that some of their biggest advertising points on the bill to working-class America were actually complete duds. Speaking with Fox News, New […]

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EPA Staff Signs ‘Declaration Of Dissent’ Over Trump’s Policies 

Source: EMILY KASK / Getty The second Trump administration has been one long, protracted assault on the core pillars of the federal government and the people who work to uphold them. From the Department of Education to FEMA, we’ve seen mass layoffs and leadership changes that essentially undermine the key functions of several agencies. Employees […]

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