Acting EPA Administrator James Payne has dismissed all members of two of the agency’s most influential science advisory panels, allowing the Trump administration to reshape them.
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Acting EPA Administrator James Payne has dismissed all members of two of the agency’s most influential science advisory panels, allowing the Trump administration to reshape them.
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Stupidity wins again.
Marching on towards fully idiot setting.
Payne stated that the decision was made to “reset” the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and the Science Advisory Board to better align the agency with the administration’s priorities.
Have you seen the "Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling" EO issued today. There is language about patriotic education at national parks, monuments, etc.
We are the first generation that is affected by climate change and the last generation that can do something about it and how will we explain to future generations that it was good for the economy when they can't farm the land, breathe the air or drink the water. The GOP has no answer.
There isn't a social program in this country that's more important to the financial well-being of Americans than Social Security. In 2023, it singlehandedly pulled 22 million people above the federal poverty line, including 16.3 million adults aged 65 and above. https://www.fool.com/retirement/2..
Meanwhile in NC, Chemours has polluted or water with forever chemicals, Duke Energy with coal ash, and we have a lot of farmland polluted with PFAS from using sewage sludge as fertilizer.
Trump’s obsession with Greenland is a tell all- they pretend NOT to believe in climate change because they actually WANT climate change which has unearthed the natural resources in Greenland and opened up strategic trade routes/military hot spots
Here is an important recap of the Trump Administration's attacks on the #environment this past week & responses from @earthjustice.bsky.social. They are doing important work to advance #cleanair, #renewables, #sustainability, #conservation, combat #climatechange. https://vimeo.com/1051340124
This was anticipated. It’s infuriating, but this administration, and the religious right wing that slavers for autocracy in lockstep with it, are making good on all they promised if they got another shot. They are hardcore shooting their shot. I hate all of this so very much.
You might also want to know about the new Gen. Counsel over at OPM: Kloster wrote, “Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish.” “Slaves owe us reparations.” In 2023, roughly 6 month after being served a restraining order, he tweeted, “I need a woman who looks like she got punched.”
Someone needs to show this to all the boneheads in NC that are celebrating the presidential motorcade that drove through that area to "show support" for the areas needing relief. It's all a facade, soon enough all their families and friends will develope new diseases due to these EPA rollbacks 🙃
See this is what I hate most of all - you morons who voted for this bigger moron should just move to an island and run things your way - but you’re affecting ALL of us and those that knew better tried to warn you
Things like clean air and clean water aren't critical. The rich can afford excellent filter systems and addresses that are far away from the contamination. And the poors can fend for themselves. As they are always required to do.
If he's an 'acting' administrator that means he doesn't have the power to fully implement anything because he's not been approved to do so by Congress.
The flood has begun – & they want you to drown. What started as drips from a leaky pipe is now full-scale collapse. Rising bills, corporate greed, media lies, and political cowardice bleed us dry. Wake up, Before it's too late. #TheFloodHasBegun
Is this also going to be reversed? Honestly. How could anyone follow these directives- that are illegal. Well hi Brie Donnie on the class action law suits 😡😡😡
They oppose anything that doesn't promote oil and gas exploration. The stupid, blind and angry half of America is being conned into thinking this is going to create so many more jobs. Maybe it will create some, but at what cost? It's all political theater to keep the masses angry.
This will be an Era of American history that will strain every fabric of society until they drive the people not paying attention, to finally take their heads out of their posteriors hopefully!
I served on EPA advisory panels on several topics and two terms on the Science Advisory Board. You may not like all the decisions that EPA has made, but I can attest from my experience that they work hard to avail themselves of the best, unbiased scientific information. Sadly, no more.
"In order to run this business as efficient as possible, we are going to surround ourselves with the very best idiots." ...said no business leader ever.
BLUESKY really needs to broaden their choices beyond 'liking' a post, perhaps something more along the lines of the other guys' choices for voicing one's impressions of posts...
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Stupidity wins again.
Marching on towards fully idiot setting.
Translation; we want loyalists not people looking out for the US citizens
Trump thing
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2..
(For someone's profit)
should be interesting
FEB 20 one month in
Sorry to those Air & Radiation new hires…
But then there's this, which does seem like a good way to make bank from catastrophe
https://vimeo.com/1051340124
https://www.pogo.org/investigations/raging-misogynist-now-federal-government-h-r-s-top-lawyer
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/trump-watchdog-firings-inspectors-general
Sue the shit out of him and take him down!
https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/from-a-leak-to-a-flood-how-corporate