U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Gutting Vehicle Emissions Standards…..ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz

OK, since you’re still here, the Trump administration’s EPA, run by career EPA opponent Scott Pruitt will be reversing the course towards lower vehicle emissions that was put into place by the Obama Administration. If you read the article in Auto News linked above tonight before bed, you won’t need that Ambien.

Most of the
Living in America right now is like reading a bad dystopian novel, one in which it’s impossible to get engaged because no one could possibly suspend his disbelief that things could go so wrong.
Those of us who see the world primarily through an environmental lens tend to focus our anguish on things like the gutting of the EPA, the construction of new pipelines, the overturn of the
As the Earth continues to warm and the permafrost melts in Northern Russia, a great number of things are happening: some invisible, like the releasing of enormous amounts of the highly potent greenhouse methane that has been sequestered for thousands of years. On the other hand, some are astonishingly visible, like the “
The main reason to be “
Here’s another installment of my colleague Jon LeSage’s Green Auto Digest, which I happily republish–even when his viewpoints diverge from my own.
A frequent commenter wrote a long and eloquent response, refuting one of my posts on the Trump presidency. I respond:
Gary Tulie, who made huge contributions to
I had the good luck to go to college with Q.C. “Beam” Furr (pictured), and apparently, he’s as good a person now as he was when I knew him 40 years ago. As a Commissioner of Broward County, Florida, here he is celebrating the opening of the Marine Environmental Education Center located on Hollywood’s North Beach.