That finding is the foundation of the federal government’s only tool to limit the #climate #pollution from vehicles, power plants & other industries that is dangerously heating the #planet.
The #EPA proposal, which is expected to be made public within days, also calls for rescinding limits on tailpipe #emissions that were designed to encourage automakers to build & sell more #EVs.
#Trump #EPA Is Said to Have Drafted a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight #ClimateChange
According to 2 people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that #GreenhouseGas #emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the #planet.
#idiocracy #ClimateCrisis #Climate #science #PublicHealth #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-rescind.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
This is so idiotic. Class AAA grift.
As if Canadians especially, but other tourists as well, can or want to drop $350CAD each at the border. "Oh honey, let's visit Maine. Do we have an extra $700 to get a visa?"
Any talk of "refundable" is just noise.
That sound is the screams from tourism organizations and business associations.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-visa-integrity-fee-250-big-beautiful-bill-who-pays/
The #HeritageFoundation, a *conservative* research organization, had criticized the #EPA’s #science office in #Project2025, a blueprint for overhauling the federal government. The group had accused the office of being “bloated, unaccountable, closed, outcome-driven, hostile to public & legislative input, & inclined to pursue political rather than purely scientific goals.” [total bullshit]
“It is dismantling a world-class organization, & the American people are not going to be well served by this,” said Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, who worked at the #EPA for 40 years & led the #research office under the first #Trump admin. “These actions are very shortsighted, & the way they’re going about it is very callous & very cruel.”
…The American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, a #union that represents more than 8,000 #EPA workers, slammed Friday’s announcement.
The #science office “is the heart & brain of the EPA,” said Justin Chen, president of #AFGE Council 238. “Without it, we don’t have the means to assess impacts upon human #health & the #environment. Its destruction will devastate #PublicHealth in our country.”
…The #EPA’s #science office provides the independent #research that underpins nearly all of the agency’s policies & #regulations. It has analyzed the risks of hazardous chemicals, the impact of #wildfire smoke on #PublicHealth & the contamination of drinking water by hydraulic fracturing, or #fracking. Its research has often justified stricter environmental rules, prompting pushback from chemical manufacturers & other industries.
Pure idiocy
#EPA Says It Will Eliminate Its #Scientific #Research Arm
The decision comes after a #SCOTUS ruling allowing the #Trump admin to slash the federal work force & dismantle agencies.
#science #Climate #ClimateCrisis #idiocracy #law #UnitedStates #BrainDrain
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk8.l81V.O4DgmQBqHXzk&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
“People deserve to know if this is a politically motivated attack on free speech.”
Anyone who can’t perceive that oligarchs grant deference and actions to a criminal president tool of capitalism for economic favor from government are unreachable catastrophic idiots.
At this point if you don’t understand the fascism ruling our nation fully embracing the tenets of Project 2025 - Supreme white Christian nationalism replacing democracy - you can’t be saved from the cult of #idiocracy.
It's nice Dems want to investigate, quantifying malfeasance, using the ineffectual system they participate in with another side fighting a war by abandoning factual honesty, ethics, virtue, integrity, and morality - without possessing means to maintain democracy drowning under Citizens United corporate rule of capitalisim.
Want to get attention? Burn the constitution in protest since we don't honor it anymore.
Nothing matters but extreme wealth and racist terrorism.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/18/democrats-cbs-colbert-show
Before the memo, there were already extra review processes in place to publishing #research conducted with people from the four countries, Roberts said.
"We don't have the talent now to progress on these research projects. It's setting us back by years, if not decades," he said.
The #ARS conducts #research on #agriculture topics like #pests, #FoodSafety & #ClimateChange that are high-priority to American #farmers. The agency has lost about 1,200 employees, more than 17% of its 2024 staffing level, to terminations & voluntary incentives to quit offered by the #Trump admin.
Some arrived to work on July 9 to find their badges no longer worked, Henderson said.
Because of a #federal #HiringFreeze that has been extended through October 15, the #USDA will not be able to replace the fired staff & will need to halt ongoing #scientific work that benefits #farmers, like a project to develop a #vaccine for a deadly #toxin that occurs in undercooked #beef, he said.
The contractors had worked at the #Agricultural Research Service, the in-house #research arm of the #USDA, said Thomas Henderson, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1657, which represents #ARS workers in Albany, California.
Most of those dismissed were Chinese post-doctoral researchers on 2-year contracts w/the agency, & who were already subject to vetting before being hired, Henderson said.
The #US Dept of #Agriculture said it has fired 70 foreign contract #researchers after a #NationalSecurity review intended to secure the US #food supply from adversaries including #China, #Russia, #NorthKorea & #Iran.
"#USDA has completed a thorough review of individuals authorized to work on contracts with the department & identified approximately 70 individuals from countries of concern," a spox said.
#Trump #BrainDrain #idiocracy #labor #law #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-farm-agency-fires-70-foreign-researchers-following-national-security-review-2025-07-18/
@Free_Press - a pedophelian, misogynistic and narcissistic idiot is ruling #usa ! Let us call misery by its name: #idiocracy !
#epstein #trump #perverts #conservatives #toxicmales
I am sure Putin will abandon a trillion dollar war to stop a few Americans having to pay tax on ummm, Baklava?
But for #white farmers who remain in #SouthAfrica & aspire to keep making a living from the land, the #tariffs due to come into effect on Aug 1 are an assault on those ambitions.
"It doesn't make sense to us to welcome South African farmers in America & then the rest that stays behind...to punish them," said Krisjan Mouton, a 6th-generation farmer in Western Cape province's citrus heartland.