Tuesday, US District Judge Tonya Chutkan blocked the tRump’s
Environmental Pollution Agency from ending $14 billion dollars in grants
awarded to three climate groups: Climate United Fund, Coalition for Green Capital
and Power Forward Communities. The
groups work towards long-term solutions for clean energy and climate-friendly
projects.
Last week, EPA administrator/climate change denier/anti-science
Lee Zeldin announced the funds would be frozen in what he called a “gold-bar”
scheme. He went onto say the grants “raises
significant concerns and poser unacceptable risk”.
However, Zeldin failed to prove any of his accusations.
Judge Chutkan ruled the EPA have not explained why terminating the grants was a
rational precursor to reviewing the green bank program, which is where the
funds for the groups are kept.
She also said Zeldin’s “vague and unsubstantiated assertions
of fraud are insufficient”.
In less than two months, Zeldin has tried to show he is on
the side of the people by telling us he is saving our tax dollars. Each time, his
lies prove he is not a champion for the people nor the environment.
https://apnews.com/article/epa-green-bank-zeldin-climate-trump-5168d11b7f63aeaf72001b50221c3c19
However, this administration clearly has other plans.
“Emissions went down during the [first] Trump
presidency,” Zeldin said.
This is a lie. Emissions
dipped during 2020, but that was due to the lockdown during the pandemic. CO2 emissions have continued to rise over the
past 50 years and do not show any signs of slowing. The United States is the second highest
producer of CO2 behind China.
The timelines of those predictions of “climate change”
ending the world have “come and gone,” Zeldin said, and the world is still
here.
No, Zeldin. Another
lie. The predictions of climate change
are for the future. There was no
deadline, no “ending of the world” talk.
You made that up. CO2 emissions
have not peaked. Climate change is real,
and it isn’t going away, thanks to you and FOTUS.
While Zeldin talks about clean air, he has proposed rollbacks
for car emissions, favoring fossil-fuel burning vehicles, and complaining that
electric cars are an obsession with electric vehicles. What does fElon say about that?
Zeldin also commented”
that Americans who want to be able to go out and purchase
a gas-powered vehicle would have that option denied to them by the government
Who has been denied the purchase of a gas-powered vehicle?
Say good-bye to clean air, clean water, clean soil, and
clean energy.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/epa-takes-aim-water-air-toxics-protections-part/story?id=119733125
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1298441/annual-global-methane-emissions/
Miracle on 34th Street won two Golden Globe awards at the fifth annual ceremony held March 10, 1948. Edmund Gwenn won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for his performance as Kris Kringle. George Seaton won for Best Screenplay.
Bambi, released in 1942, was given a Special Achievement Award. It was the first time Walt Disney was honored with a Golden Globe.
Max Steiner won Best Music, Original Score - Motion Picture for his composition for Life With Father.
https://youtube.com/shorts/HJVU1Y2AinM?si=moTCvR4esRSIaTqG
It didn’t take long for the tRump Supreme Court to begin its campaign of rolling back protections for the public in favor of big corporations. Announced March 4, the Supreme Court has ruled the Environmental Protection Agency has “overstepped” its authority under the Clean Water Act. The Republican-controlled Supreme Court voted 5-4 in favor of San Francisco, saying “the agency has adequate tools to obtain needed information from permittees without resorting to ‘end result’ permits. The Guardian reports that “end result’ is a new term coined by the court.
That means the Supreme Court MADE IT UP!
The court said the EPA overstepped its authority with water
pollution permits that contain vague requirements for maintaining water quality,
preferring specific requirements. The
permit in question was to limit generic discharges of raw sewage into the
Pacific Ocean after heavy rains.
Raw sewage? Who wants
any E. coli or fecal matter in their drinking water. What part of ZERO do they not
understand? Any level of those
contaminants can be harmful. I agree that it might be difficult to limit
discharges after heavy rains but to relieve San Francisco of any responsibility
is reckless and dangerous.
Amy Coney Barrett was the only conservative to dissent. Not surprising, Neil Gorusch voted in favor
of rolling back protections. If that name
is familiar, it is because he is the son of Anne Gorusch, who was EPA
Administrator during the Regan era. She cut the EPA’s budget by
22% and reduced the number of cases filed against polluters. Do you recall the character Dioxin Dolly,
played by actress Audrie Neenan, from Not Necessarily the News?
Gorusch hired people from the industries they were supposed
to be regulating. Now that does that
sound familiar! Scott Pruitt. Andrew Wheeler. And the list goes on.
This is just the start, people. Lee Zeldin, appointed by tRump and sworn in
as EPA Administrator in January, is a climate-change denier, zero science education,
and tRump boot-licker. This ruling doesn’t
affect just San Francisco. It sets a precedent
that will have far reaching consequences.
Ignoring facts or a serious lack of understanding puts us
all in danger. Look for reductions in
protections for air and soil.
References:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/04/epa-ruling-sewage-water
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/politics/supreme-court-san-francisco-poop-epa/index.html
