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Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants​

The agency plans to argue that carbon emissions from power plants do not contribute “significantly” to climate change. Scientists disagree.

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The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the United States, according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times.

In its proposed regulation, the agency argued that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants that burn fossil fuels “do not contribute significantly to dangerous pollution” or to climate change because they are a small and declining share of global emissions. Eliminating those emissions would have no meaningful effect on public health and welfare, the agency said.

But in the United States, the power sector was the second biggest source of greenhouse gases, behind transportation, according to the most recent data available on the E.P.A. website. And globally, power plants account for about 30 percent of the pollution that is driving climate change.

The E.P.A. sent the draft to the White House for review on May 2. It could undergo changes before it is formally released and the public is given the opportunity to offer comments, likely in June.…”
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This is the problem Vance and other MAGA have with universities and science- they disprove what they lie about.
 
superrific said:
to be clear, maga, Vance is full of shit. There is no reproducibility crisis in biology. The universities do not "inhibit" anything, though they would like to retain some IP in the discoveries they make.
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I suspect Vance and his ilk’s issue with biology at the university level is its emphasis on evolution. Those darn academics discriminate against creationism.

Oh, and those darn University scientists actually think vaccines work.
 
LeoBloom said:
I suspect Vance and his ilk’s issue with biology at the university level is its emphasis on evolution. Those darn academics discriminate against creationism.
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Vance is Catholic. I think it's more about what science says about trans and gay people. And just generally trying to recreate the High Middle Ages, which a shocking number of Catholic intellectuals these days think is a good idea. Personally, I like shitting in my bathroom, and even more not having to worry about getting feces dumped on me from above as I walk the street.
 
superrific said:
Vance is Catholic. I think it's more about what science says about trans and gay people. And just generally trying to recreate the High Middle Ages, which a shocking number of Catholic intellectuals these days think is a good idea. Personally, I like shitting in my bathroom, and even more not having to worry about getting feces dumped on me from above as I walk the street.
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Good point.
 
nycfan said:


People were wearing red, so …
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I see Trump wearing a red MAGA hat to a West Point commencement and can't decide whether to laugh or cry...laugh at the crude buffoon who is our president or cry because the rest of the world is laughing at us for being so stupid to elect this buffoon.
 


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Since the 1980s Bruce Springsteen has been writing songs that emphasized, even romanticized, a polyglot vision of America and what it means to be an American. That vision is, broadly speaking, an updated version of New Deal America: one that recognizes not only the dignity and pride of honest labor but also the importance of respecting our differences, whether they are based on culture, gender, ethnicity or race. It’s a vision of unity summed up in the phrase that in past concert tours Mr. Springsteen has used to close out the show: “Nobody wins unless everybody wins.” And when Mr. Springsteen says “everybody,” he means everybody — including undocumented migrants and border patrol agents, unwed mothers, distant and irresponsible fathers, Black victims of police brutality and the cops who (regret) shooting them, emotionally scarred Vietnam vets and Southeast Asian war refugees trying to make America their new home.

The 1980s also saw the rise of an alternative vision of America: one that sought to tear down what was left of the New Deal. Its exemplar was Donald Trump, then a tacky developer and a tabloid fixture. It was based on the idea that could be summarized as: I win only if everybody else loses. Today Mr. Trump is president, and full of petty rage at Mr. Springsteen for daring to criticize him at the opening show on his current European tour. …”
 
lawtig02 said:
Johnson might be the first person God ever excommunicates himself.
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Seems like there have plenty of obvious candidates over the years and I’ve yet to see any of them excommunicated by a lightening bolt or other appropriate supernatural means.

 
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