EPA Moves To Repeal Finding That Allows Climate Regulation (apnews.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/29/208244/epa-moves-to-repeal-finding-that-allows-climate-regulation
- Source link: https://apnews.com/article/trump-climate-epa-endangerment-zeldin-5cba0871c880e23d044ef40a398c57b2
> President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday [2]proposed revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.
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> The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule would rescind a 2009 declaration that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.
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> The "endangerment finding" is the legal underpinning of a host of climate regulations under the Clean Air Act for motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources that are heating the planet.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~skam240
[2] https://apnews.com/article/trump-climate-epa-endangerment-zeldin-5cba0871c880e23d044ef40a398c57b2
Re: The Republican Parties version of ... (Score:3)
You joke, but there is a certain small faction that want to see the end of days and Rapture occur in their own lifetime.
Now, what did that "P" stand for? (Score:2)
n/t, just despair.
Re: (Score:1)
This has already been attempted: [1]Indiana pi bill [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill
Obvious motivation (Score:2)
You can tell that all this is about is money since that is the ONLY thing Zeldin mentions in his comment. NOTHING about public health.
Re: Obvious motivation (Score:2)
It's ALWAYS about money.
Don't Look Up pretty much hits the mark.
He's right.. (Score:1)
This "scientific finding" is no such thing. It is pure speculation, based on emotional bullshit to sell to the public, designed to pick winners and losers in the financial world. If we were serious about "climate change" we wouldn't just be featherbedding favored industries.
Re: He's right.. (Score:2)
Says the Anonymous Coward... ðY(TM)
Re: He's right.. (Score:2)
Not being serious about combating climate change doesn't make science not real.
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But what if you really don't like what the science says? That should be enough to ignore it, right?
So we are way past climate change here (Score:2)
We are now in the realm of cancer villages. Companies can spew chemicals into your water supply and there is basically nobody doing anything about it.
Those companies are currently on the honor system and the only thing holding them back is the possibility that the Republican party might lose some elections.
And with the damage done to the voting Rights act and the voter suppression going around that possibility gets lower every year.
I would like to say that every person here who votes Republican
What will they repeal next? (Score:4, Funny)
The laws of thermodynamics? I could see how those might be inconventient too.
Re: (Score:3)
> The laws of thermodynamics? I could see how those might be inconventient too.
Maybe they can repeal gravity? I've always wanted to be able to fly.
Re: What will they repeal next? (Score:2)
Ah, but gravity's only a _Theory_...
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Heck, throw in special relativity and then you can fly faster than the speed of light.