Those who revel in the suffering and death of elephants, rhinos, lions, and tigers are licking their own wounds today, as the Trump administration disbanded its advisory board created to help boost trophy hunting and relax federal rules for importing the heads and hides of big game animals. (more…)
It’s a sunny 66°F at 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” right now, here in Santa Barbara County, CA, which is about average for this time of year. Not so in the Antarctic, where a research station recorded a new record-high temperature for the region — less than a week after the temperature record was shattered on the Antarctic continent (when it hit 65°F ).
It was 69 degrees Fahrenheit in the Antarctic on Sunday. (more…)
The guy promoting the device here writes:
Solar cells capture up to 40 percent more energy when they can track the sun across the sky, but conventional, motorized trackers are too heavy and bulky for pitched rooftops and vehicle surfaces. (more…)
Commenting on the meme here, frequent contributor Glenn Doty writes:
The only purpose of any action that this administration seems to be is to maximize chaos, fear, and suffering. (more…)
BlackRock Inc. headquarters in New York
BlackRock, the world’s largest investment management corporation with nearly $7 trillion under management, has recently committed to make investment decisions with environmental sustainability as a core goal, and begin to exit certain investments that “present a high sustainability-related risk,” such as those in coal-fired power. (more…)
What Gandhi said here is interesting. FWIW, most of us are not afraid that Trump is going to be here forever; we believe that through some mechanism, the United States will eventually restore some sort of rule by law.
I’m actually sadder than I am afraid. (more…)
From this article: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended the State Department’s decision to deny NPR press credentials for his trip to Europe following his confrontation with reporter Mary Louise Kelly, stating in an interview in Kazakhstan Sunday that it sends “a perfect message about press freedoms” to the world. (more…)
William Pendley, acting head of the BLM, appears to be headed for reappointment without any involvement from the American public. OK, so what’s the issue? Perry’s decades-long career as a property-rights lawyer whose focus was removing federal control of the public lands he now oversees.
From this article:
The dustup over Pendley began in July 2019, when he became acting head of the bureau—which oversees drilling, ranching, and recreation on 245 million acres of public lands, primarily in the West—and it hasn’t cleared since. A dozen Democratic senators and 91 conservation, hunting, public interest and wildlife groups have called for his ouster,
The Old West firebrand also has an inflammatory streak. He has slurred climate-change believers as “kooks” and sympathized with Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who was part of an armed standoff with federal agents after he refused to pay the bureau’s grazing fees.
“As someone who has spent his career advocating for the widespread sale of public lands, Mr. Pendley is the last person who should be running the BLM,” Democratic senator Michael Bennet of Colorado said. “Coloradans place enormous value on our public lands—not just from a conservation perspective, but because they serve as the backbone of our economy.”
Those who say that this administration “ruins everything it touches” are referring to issues like this, i.e., one in which the damage will remain long after Trump leaves office. Last week’s news item involving Trump’s awarding overt racist/misogynist Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom was another good example. From here on into perpetuity, that distinction will mean precisely zero.
It’s heartening to know that, prior to today, there were at least four honorable people in the U.S. Department of Justice. The problem, however, is the same as with the scientists who resign from government positions because their work is ignored and corporate interests dictate public policy. I.e., they are replaced by those loyal to Trump.
I have no idea what this mass exodus from the DoJ will result in, but it’s a shame that four decent people are no longer working there.
The mainstream, corporate owned media can’t get out of its own way to push voters away from Bernie Sanders; it’s disgusting how blatantly obvious this is. And I’m not talking about Fox News; I mean MSNBC, CNN and the like.
The richest man on Earth, Jeff Bezos, owns Washington Post.com, which ran 16 consecutive Bernie-bashing articles in 16 hours on the day of the Michigan primary in 2016. And it’s only gotten worse since then. (more…)
