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President Safe Energy Rights Group
Keep radioactive isotopes & fossil fuels in the ground not in our air and water!
Columbia University; Yale Law; Founder & first editor-in-chief Yale Law & Policy Review
Retired Wall Street lawyer & whistleblower
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The fossil fuel industry is trying to divide the environmental movement with false claims about the ‘problems’ caused by renewables.
We can’t fall for that!
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Wow - except for those of us who are cancer survivors and in our late 70s - and all of the other people who are hoping to live this long!
My cat agrees that I should try everything I can to be able to stick around for awhile.
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Such brutality!
Who on earth could support this behavior?
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Such brutality!
Who on earth could support this?
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This type of agricultural support and planning would be even better for the U.S. - but of course Big Ag doesn’t want anyone to look at what they’re doing.
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It’s no wonder that the life expectancy of Americans has gone down in recent years given all of the toxins in our air, water, and food.
And of course the forever ones are the very worst 😢
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‘Industries’ however are made up of people - specifically corporate executives and controlling shareholders - who are in fact anthropomorphic.
No one is blaming the dinosaurs for dying.
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Maybe some legal consequences for those carrying out his ‘wish list’ would give others pause.
The top level litigation requires lots of resources but can create a predicate for State charges against individual participants.
Hope some will have that courage!
NJ?
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Full on Roy Cohn tactics & illegal to the core!
The old ‘do it and make them try to stop it’ approach.
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This is precisely why we need FERC & EPA & State water agencies to complete thorough & honest environmental impact statements!
But of course the current administration is gutting federal agencies & bullying States
Our NY Governor is caving on fossil fuels & nukes:
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Good people don’t really set out to be heroes - but I think the ones who do things like this judge will wind up being the ones who are remembered for their roles in stopping the worst of Trump’s aims.
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The ‘most powerful’ who are behind him must also see how destructive he is. They are each pursuing their own interests in supporting him but could cooperate and his facade would crumble
It’s a clear illustration of the ‘prisoner’s dilemma’ - but cooperation is just not in those guys’ toolboxes.
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Tariffs are bad now?
Did someone threaten to impose a tariff on his new super-deluxe airplane?
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Having worked with Dr. Phillips opposing fossil fuel projects in the area I can say that he is the very opposite of a threat to the community
He brings a thoughtful science based approach to protecting our environment from local health threats & planetary climate change impacts
Incredible action!
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Donnie looks like even HE doesn’t believe it.
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Such a relief to have gotten another good one!
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Thanks for showing her original question that got her targeted.
The ‘rules’ for this event clearly show that Lawler didn’t want to engage with us - he wanted to lecture us: 30 seconds limit on questions & no followup allowed, no videos of his non-answers, press couldn’t talk to attendees, etc!
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Two women were thrown out.
Two men had been asked to leave but were then allowed to stay.
Watch what Lawler does - not what he says.
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It’s not a ‘largely red’ county.
Lawler’s district includes parts of 4 counties & he lost in Westchester where we have a Dem County Executive, Board of Legislators & DA.
We’ll certainly be contacting them - but Lawler is considering a run for Governor so State level action could be ‘complicated’
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Bernie would have won.
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This is clearly a threat that he should be prosecuted for.
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Actually just Congress CAN'T change the need for trials
The 'Due Process' clause is part of the Constitution and it would require not only Congress but the States to adopt a change to it
These people know nothing about how the government works & apparently no one else is brave enough to tell them
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She certainly doesn’t look like she’s a threat - and who would she be threatening?
The crowd was overwhelmingly anti-Lawler and just wanted him to answer the questions instead of giving prepared non-responses.
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Every step in the process of using uranium to make electricity at nuclear plants is filled with disastrous health problems and deaths (including waste that’s dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years).
We MUST NOT revive an industry that kills people as part of ‘the price of doing business’!
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The disaster at Fukushima brought attention to the dangers of radioactive materials released from nuclear plants but people should understand that those plants release radioactive materials Every Day!
Even ‘closed’ plants leak radioactive groundwater, like into the Hudson here at Indian Point in NY
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Um, no.
We had desks even back then (1971 in my case)
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They could pass a law saying that only women over the age of 60 who have 3 or more children under the age of 10 are eligible for Medicaid and he would claim that he hadn’t cut benefits for ‘eligible’ recipients.
We must always ask about ‘currently eligible recipients’!
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He couldn’t have just gone directly to insisting that up is down and black is white?
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OK - but only if NY can come along!
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And now, in the midst of budgetary uncertainty, Cuomo’s handpicked successor wants to throw money at the MOST expensive & slowest way to produce electricity - aka nuclear plants (regular size or the extra-crispy small ones)
Hope primary voters in both NYC and NYS will be paying closer attention!
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Why would millionaires want to live in Massachusetts despite the passage of the millionaires tax?
Here’s a clue:
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It makes me wish that the ten Canadian Provinces WERE our 51st - 60th States.
We could use more people with such good sense!
Thanks guys.
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As a former fossil fuels lobbyist, he learned how to bend words to cover up his real efforts.
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It’s my understanding that the Diablo Canyon nuke plant ‘monopolizes’ some of the CA grid capacity and blocks deployment of the more reliable offshore wind.
I know it’s difficult these days - but it would be really nice if people paid more attention!
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Nuclear plants are much too ‘sensitive’ to be a reliable energy source in a situation with overstretched grids and the extreme heat, cold, droughts and floods of our upcoming climate changed world.
For many, a loss of external power for running cooling systems means an immediate shutdown.
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Interesting that after the grid outage in Spain, coal and nuclear are out as wind and solar recover.
(click on image for full graph of the outage, recovery and legend)
Who’s reliable now?
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Apparently, whether you’re a Dem or a Republican, it helps aspiring journalists to be young and blond.
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There were a lot of people protesting outside of the event.
Many of them referring to the difference between what Lawler says and how Lawler votes.
This woman’s sign attracted a lot of attention - including from an amused dentist.
Oh wait - that’s me!