Environmentalists do a great deal of hand-wringing about the terrors of the Trump administration, but we tend to forget how powerful our legal system is when it comes down to actually rolling back regulations that have been lawfully put in …
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Coal Plant Retirement
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EPA Administrator Hated for a Variety of Reasons
There was a discussion here a few weeks ago in which I asserted that Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt was among the top five most hated people in the U.S.
Trump: Where All This Is Going
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo notes: Robert Mueller must be conscious of the harm done by turning his investigation into a seemingly politically biased “Get Trump at any cost” campaign. It’s not his place to decide whether or not Donald Trump is a …
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This Is What a Civil War Looks LIke
What would happen if the Mueller investigation unearths ironclad evidence of criminal wrongdoing on the part of the president, and Congress impeaches him as a result? I’m not saying how likely that is, though whatever probability one would assign is …
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Add One More Climate Change Denier and Fossil Fuel Industry Lobbyist to the EPA’s Payroll
It’s been another banner day for the forces that seek to perpetuate coal and oil at the expense of the health and safety of every man, woman and child living on Earth, and all those yet to be born onto …
Free Expression Is Far From Dead
There are a couple of relevant things that could be said about the photo here:
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Re: Environmental Stewardship, Regrettably, We’re Not All on the Same Team
In response to one of my recent posts on the Trump administration’s assault on the environment, “Concerned Citizen” writes: It is healthy to agree to disagree but please don’t stoop to degrading behaviors because we are all on the same …
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Trump’s a Problem, But We Have Worse
Some people are upset that the President of the United States is a pathological liar. Others, and I think they have an even stronger cause for alarm, are distraught that about 40% of Americans either believe his steady stream of …
It Features Wireless Charging, But Perhaps Not in the Way You Envisioned It
I just had an amusing experience that I thought I’d share. Here’s an ad for an SUV that offers “wireless charging, no strings attached.” Naturally, I thought to myself: “Cool, an EV that features inductive charging; I knew we’d get …
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Lots of Things Simply Will Not Happen In Renewable Energy
We’ve all heard that “there is a first time for everything.” What this means, of course, is that there is a first time for everything that actually happens. Lots of things don’t happen.
