Supreme Court Deals Major Blow to EPA Power. In a nutshell, they can’t be making up BS rules and laws, that job belongs to Congress. This should affect all the other agencies like the ATF regarding laws like their attempts to band bump stocks and triggers that fire on the pull and the release. Trump’s Remain in Mexico, is gone. But the Biden administration and DHS have basically been ignoring this anyway, so big deal. The 4 firearms cases were remanded back to the circuit courts they came from.
Al Lupiano is among the 94 former staff and students from Colonia High School in the Woodbridge Township School District who have been stricken by the devastating diagnoses in recent years.
“I will not rest until I have answers,” Lupiano, 50, declared in an interview with NJ.com and the Star Ledger on Thursday. “I will uncover the truth.”
Among the others diagnosed with brain cancer was Lupiano’s younger sister, who passed away from the disease in February at the age of 44.
EPA chief rips Gov Newsom’s unrealistic electric car mandate: ‘You can’t even keep the lights on.’ Gavin couldn’t keep the lights on at a Motel 6.
In a letter, the U.S. EPA administrator tells Newsom that his executive order mandating only new electric car sales in California by 2035 may be illegal and questions the feasibility of the increase demand in electricity "when you can't even keep the lights on today." pic.twitter.com/f3piV4UtZe
Supreme Court slams states’ motion to halt EPA rules. We have to wonder what Obama has on this guy. He certainly doesn’t need another liberal on the court. This is one you CAN blame on Bush.
Our president is a Jekyl and Hyde character. Barack Jekyl is clueless about the economy and Obama Hyde is hell-bent to cause more destruction.
We’ve learned our president is a Jekyl and Hyde character. Barack Jekyl is completely clueless about how to improve the economy and Obama Hyde is hell-bent to cause more destruction.
Which Barack Obama will we get today?
US News profiles the destructive alter-ego in action:
Two new EPA pollution regulations will slam the coal industry so hard that hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost, and electric rates will skyrocket 11 percent to over 23 percent, according to a new study based on government data.
“Many of these severe impacts would hit families living in states already facing serious economic challenges,” said Steve Miller, president of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
Just a hunch, but we figure those are states he didn’t figure to win next year. To continue…
The industry says the costs and potential to lose four jobs for every new clean energy job created isn’t worth the rules, especially in a job-starved economy.
Raising the price of electricity for strapped families while putting more workers out of jobs. Obama’s focusing like a laser on the economy so he can vaporize it. But there is an upside, they claim:
…officials said that just one of the rules to cut sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions will would yield up to $290 billion in annual health and welfare benefits in 2014.
And the stimulus will reduce unemployment below 8%. And Obamacare will reduce the deficit. The next time this bunch’s numbers prove correct will be the first.
Multiple personalities or not, we wish he’d imitate a job and vanish.
It’s not too much of a stretch to say that the Environmental Protection Agency is creating noise pollution, because it has produced what must be one of the worst songs in the history of rap.
It’s not too much of a stretch to say that the Environmental Protection Agency is creating noise pollution, because it has produced what must be one of the worst songs in the history of rap. And that’s quite a statement because rap is a genre rife with really bad songs.
In theory, “Click It, Flip It” is supposed to inspire kids to live more sustainable lifestyles. In reality, it will inspire kids to say, “This rap is crap.”
You owe us a big one, IHTM readers. We sat through this song about fifteen times just so we could transcribe the lyrics for you accurately.
“Click It, Flip It”
Click, click, click, click
Click, click, click, click
C’mon and click it, click it
Turn off your water, turn the handle to the right
Slip on your sneakers and lace ‘em up tight
Leave the car parked, you know that that’s alright.
Public transportation is the way to go
Well, it’s one of the ways keep emissions low
Now you can ride your bike, uh huh, instead of the car
If we save on fuel, then we’ll all go far
I said click it, click it
Turn the handle to the right
Turn off the water turn the handle real tight
Slip on your sneakers and lace ‘em up tight
Leave the car parked, c’mon you know now that’s alright.
Public transportation is the way to go
Well, it’s one of the ways keep emissions low
Now you can ride your bike, uh huh, instead of the car
If we save on fuel, then we’ll all go far
Now you can pick up paper, recycle it too
And there are many other things that you can do
You can click off the Gameboy, flip off the light
While you’re brushing your teeths turn the handle to the right
Close the fridge door and keep it shut tight
No food has been added since the middle of the night
A five-minute shower is all that’s needed
To keep energy from being depleted
A long-sleeved sweater is what I know
Will keep you toasty and your fuel bills low
Planet a tree in your neighborhood
Besides giving shade you know it looks real good
C’mon and click it
Turn your handle to the right
Turn off the water turn the handle’s real tight
Slip on your sneakers and lace ‘em up tight
Leave the car parked, c’mon you know that’s alright.
Public transportation is the way to go
Well, it’s one of the ways keep emissions low
Now you can ride your bike, uh huh, instead of the car
If we save on fuel, then we’ll all go far
The USA is where we are
To kick a new trend and to raise the bar
The climate’s changing and that’s a fact
The bears don’t even know when to take a nap
On top of that it’s not cool
When the flood waters rise and mosquitoes rule
It’s time to get off the couch and start to move.
C’mon and click it
Turn your handle to the right
Turn off the water, turn the handle real tight
Slip on your sneakers, well, and lace ‘em up tight
Leave the car parked, you know that’s alright.
I said public transportation is the way to go
It’s one of the ways keep emissions low
Now you can ride your bike, uh huh, instead of the car
If we save on fuel, then we’ll all go far
C’mon and click it
Click it
Turn the handle to the right
Click it, click it
Turn the handle to the right
C’mon and click it
Turn the handle to the right
Click, click, click, click,
Click, click, click, click,
Click, click
This may sound like Abbott & Costello doing their famous “Who’s On First” routine, but it’s not. No, it’s actually Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner grilling EPA Assistant Administrator Mathy Stanislaus.
This may sound like Abbott & Costello doing their famous “Who’s On First” routine, but it’s not. No, it’s actually Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner grilling EPA Assistant Administrator Mathy Stanislaus.
This truly remarkable exchange took place during an Environment and the Economy Subcommittee hearing. You will not believe what you are about to hear. Gardner certainly couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
That hopey changey thing was bad enough. Now Mr. Stanislaus introduces that Mathy thing.
Food prices are not up just because increasingly wealthy Indians and Chinese are putting strains on worldwide food production. It’s also because insane Federal policy has destroyed the Breadbasket of the World.
You may have noticed – and seriously, how could you have missed it – that food prices are soaring.
It’s not just because increasingly wealthy Indians and Chinese are putting strains on worldwide food production. It’s also because insane Federal policy has destroyed the Breadbasket of the World.
Reason Magazine describes the disaster that has become the California’s Central Valley:
California’s Central Valley is a 450 mile long stretch of flat and fertile land that produces much of the food that we enjoy every day. But the people in small towns like Mendota (the cantaloupe capital of the world) are suffering these days, in part due to two federal policies.
In order to protect a threatened fish species called the Delta Smelt, much of the water that used to be pumped from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to farms on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley is now allowed to flow into the ocean. The result is predictable: hundreds of thousands of acres of farm land lies fallow and tens of thousands of jobs have been lost. In Mendota, the unemployment rate is over 40% and food lines are the norm.
But people going hungry in a region dominated by agriculture is only one of the contradictions in the Central Valley.
Nearly all the valley’s farm workers are immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and many of them are undocumented. These people are crucial to the valley’s economy, but they’re breaking the law according to the federal government.
Watch the video. It will simultaneously break your heart and piss you off.
How can you explain Van Jones’ public admission that environmentalists just make all this crap up?
The left says Republicans are the ones who live in the past. Yet they seem to be blithely unaware of developments like cell phone video cameras and YouTube.
How else can you explain Van Jones’ public admission that environmentalists just make all this crap up?
OK, well, there is one other possibility: Van Jones is the second dumbest man alive. (Don’t worry, Van, as long as Joe Biden is still with us you’ll never be the dumbest man alive.)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a 55-page “guidance” to help its employees “advance environmental justice” for low-income and minority communities.
As far as we’re concerned, “environmental justice” is what you’d call it if Al Gore froze to death while speaking about global warming. But that’s not the way the EPA looks at it.
CNSnews.com has the story:
The Minority, Low-Income, Non-English Speaking and Indigenous Population Casino, where the drinks are watered down, but the environmental justice isn't.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a 55-page “guidance” to help its employees “advance environmental justice” for low-income and minority communities.
“Achieving environmental justice is an Agency priority and should be factored into every decision,” the document says.
You may ask yourself the obvious question that we asked ourselves: What the hell is environmental justice?
The EPA defines environmental justice as the “fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, particularly minority, low-income, and indigenous populations, and tribes, in the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”
The guide states that from now on — in the process of developing rules, policy statements, risk assessments, and other regulatory actions — EPA managers and staffers must first ask themselves, “Does this action involve a topic that is likely to be of particular interest to or have particular impact upon minority, low-income, or indigenous populations, or tribes?”
If the answer is yes, the rule-writers must reach out to the affected minority and/or low-income communities. One section of the guide explains how EPA rule-writers may have to make “special efforts” to connect with people who may be uneducated or non-English-speaking.
Far as we can tell, that means environmental justice is served when the indigenous populations build indigenous population casinos.
Hit me, dealer. And power to the indigenous population!
In case you doubted that government bureaucrats are committed to controlling every aspect of our lives, please be aware that they’ve now categorized milk as a pollutant.
EPA bureaucrats know a government teat when they see one. Or four.
In case you doubted that government bureaucrats are committed to controlling every aspect of our lives, please be aware that they’ve now categorized milk as a pollutant.
Northern Michigan’s Channel 9 has the details:
The Environmental Protection Agency intends to classify milk as a hazardous waste; in the same category as oil.
That means, farmers would have to come up with an oil spill prevention plan which could cost them thousands of dollars.
The Senate Agricultural Committee passed a resolution today urging the EPA to take back those regulations.
This new interpretation of the EPA’s Clean Water Act will require dairy farmers to develop oil spill prevention plans for their milk storage tanks.
As one farmer said in the video, “The majority of milk is water, in the high 80s percentile is water. The rest of it, three and one half percent, is solids of the fat and a portion of that is oil. And because of that small amount of oil in milk they’d like to relate it to motor oil or fuel oil and put it in the same category.”
To put this in terms a dairy farmer would appreciate, bureaucrats are good for only one thing: sucking from the government teat.
Two lawyers from the EPA’s San Francisco Regional Office (if they were any further left they’d be in the Pacific Ocean) have spoken out against the Cap-and-Trade bill wending its way through the Congress.
Two EPA heretics being burned at the stake by global warming religious fanatics
Two lawyers from the EPA’s San Francisco Regional Office (if they were any further left they’d be in the Pacific Ocean) have spoken out against the Cap-and-Trade bill wending its way through the Congress.
In an op-ed piece in today’s Washington Post the two wrote:
What guarantees failure of the proposed climate bills, however, are their provisions for carbon offsets, a concept not used in the acid rain program. Both bills allow all required greenhouse-gas reductions for almost 20 years to be met with carbon offsets rather than actual reductions in use of the capped sources. Offsets — considered indispensable to keeping cap-and-trade affordable — are supposed to be “additional” reductions beyond what is legally required. But experience with offsets in Europe and California has shown that ensuring real “additionality” is not an achievable goal.
Carbon offsets create the illusion of “additional” greenhouse-gas reductions, but we are just getting business as usual. Untrackable shifting of economic activity and perverse incentives such as these are inherent problems for carbon offsets and cannot be solved by certification or verification processes. Since the most flawed offsets will be the cheapest, they will also be the most popular.
In a related story, Nancy Pelosi has introduced legislation authorizing Congress to purchase carbon offsets (from Al Gore, who else) so the two attorneys can be burned at the stake.
As anyone who took high school science knows carbon dioxide (CO2) is what people and animals exhale and plants “inhale”.
Yet environmental zealots call it a “greenhouse gas” to make it sound harmful.
What would be really harmful, though, is if the Environmental Protection Agency starts regulating CO2. Well, hang on to your wallet, Money Bags, because that’s exactly what they’re considering.
Last month, the EPA issued a proposed finding that greenhouse gases “endanger public health and welfare within the meaning of the Clean Air Act.”
But now an internal White House memo reveals glimpses of sanity within the administration. A memo sent by the Office of Management and Budget to the EPA says that greenhouse gasses have “no demonstrated direct health effects” but that regulation “is likely to have serious economic consequences.”
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson was confronted about the memo at a Senate hearing. Watch how she tap-dances around the question, misrepresents the Supreme Court’s ruling (as if the Supreme Court makes laws) and downplays her agency’s finding, saying it was preliminary and “might not” lead to regulations. But if they did decide to start regulating CO2, they’d “make regulations smartly.”
God help us. If anyone’s responsible for global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions, it’s bureaucratic windbags.
