Post AwPfKjOMb02UOxM9gm by Nonilex@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #AwPedVxSfPhmHjALJo by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-23T03:47:42Z
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#Trump #EPA Is Said to Have Drafted a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight #ClimateChangeAccording 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 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-rescind.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AwPesB78RkYTyxgP68 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-23T03:50:22Z
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The #Trump admin has drafted a plan to repeal a fundamental scientific finding that gives the #UnitedStates government its authority to regulate #GreenhouseGas #emissions & fight #ClimateChange, according to two people familiar with the plan.The proposed Environmental *Protection* Agency rule rescinds a 2009 declaration known as the “endangerment finding,” which scientifically established that #GreenhouseGases like carbon dioxide & methane endanger human lives.#Climate #science #PublicHealth
(DIR) Post #AwPf8KJU0oD1989tom by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-23T03:53:17Z
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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 #idiocracy #ClimateCrisis #Climate #science #PublicHealth
(DIR) Post #AwPfKjOMb02UOxM9gm by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-23T03:55:32Z
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Those #regulations, which were based on the #endangerment finding, were a fundamental part of the #Biden admin’s efforts to move the country away from #gasoline-powered vehicles. The transportation sector is the largest source of #GreenhouseGas emissions in the #US.The #Trump #EPA intends to argue that imposing #climate regulations on #automakers poses the real harm to human #health because it would lead to higher prices & reduced consumer choice…. [what?]#idiocracy #ClimateCrisis #science
(DIR) Post #AwPflx71gx9Qm0E91E by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-23T04:00:25Z
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…If the #Trump admin is able to repeal the #endangerment finding, it would not only erase all current limits on #GreenhouseGas #pollution from cars, factories, power plants, etc. It would prevent future admins from trying to tackle #ClimateChange, w/lasting implications.“The WH is trying to turn back the clock & re-litigate both the #science & the #law,” said Vickie Patton, general counsel for the #EDF…. She called the evidence that #climate change is harmful “overwhelming & incontrovertible.”
(DIR) Post #AwPg6joUKfDvbmT2a8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-23T04:04:12Z
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Since taking office, #Trump has abandoned #US efforts to tackle #GlobalWarming. He also has moved to roll back virtually every federal policy aimed at curbing #GreenhouseGases from the burning of #oil, #gas & #coal. His admin has encouraged more production & use of #FossilFuels while stifling the growth of #CleanEnergy & #EVs.#idiocracy #ClimateCrisis #science #PublicHealth #EPA
(DIR) Post #AwPgLQUSSPVA1T6PL6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-23T04:06:51Z
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In calling to repeal the #endangerment finding, the draft #EPA rule does not appear to focus on the #science or try to make the case that #FossilFuels aren’t warming the planet.Instead, it argues that the #EPA overstepped its #legal #authority under the #CleanAirAct by making a broad finding that #GreenhouseGas #emissions endanger the public welfare. It makes the case that the EPA administrator has limited power that apply only to specific circumstances.#Trump #law #Climate #PublicHealth
(DIR) Post #AwPglOWaO7pzSITqBE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-23T04:11:31Z
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Joseph Goffman, who led the #air office at the #EPA under the #Biden admin, said the rule would all but certainly face #legal challenges if it is finalized.He said the #Trump admin’s proposed rule conflicts w/the 2007 #SCOTUS ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA, a landmark case that found for the first time that #GreenhouseGases were a #pollutant under the #CleanAirAct. That led the EPA to make the finding in 2009 that said that 6 greenhouse gases were harming #PublicHealth.#Climate #science #law
(DIR) Post #AwPgyNQjlgTZpGw2KG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-23T04:13:54Z
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In more than 200 pages, the #EPA at that time outlined the #science & detailed how increasingly severe #HeatWaves, #storms & #droughts were expected to contribute to higher rates of #death & #disease.https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2016-08/documents/endangerment_tsd.pdf#Trump #idiocracy #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #PublicHealth #law
(DIR) Post #AwPhaH047jTCt4Wv0y by f800gecko@mastodon.online
2025-07-23T04:20:42Z
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@Nonilex It seems to me people who write and people who care have become by necessity engaged in an act of remembering as much as recording the news.
(DIR) Post #AwQ59SUDhvMlaoNgye by TCatInReality@mastodon.social
2025-07-23T08:44:46Z
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@Nonilex Another great example of why I think Trump wants this Epstein scandal.We're not talking about the budget, dead campers, masked goons disappearing people in the streets, the rise of measles ...or now the EPA repealing basic factual findings.Instead, we're talking about conspiracy theories, a fact-light zone where Trump is very comfortable dripfeeding lies.(Not you, @Nonilex , you do a wonderful job keeping people informed on all the craziness)
(DIR) Post #AwUylzMGDCsEepsp4y by huntingdon@mstdn.social
2025-07-25T17:26:53Z
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@Nonilex Trump did promise Big Oil that for a billion dollar donation, it could have any govt policies on its wish list. Big Oil got him for half price.