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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 2, 2018, 5:18 pm
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> [quote author=RE link=topic=688.msg149614#msg149614
date=1520976076]
> [quote author=Golden Oxen link=topic=688.msg149607#msg149607
date=1520966932]
> Donald Trump is a graduate of West Point and a true patriot.
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> The voters chose wisely.
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If they are anything like you, clearly not very well informed
voters. As Eddie has demonstrated, Trumpovetsky never went to
West Point.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 2, 2018, 5:19 pm
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> [quote author=monsta666 link=topic=688.msg149633#msg149633
date=1520988612]
> Judge a man by his actions then his words. Trump does not act
or behave with the temperament of one that has gone to a
prestigious school. To that requires intelligence, perseverance
and general self-control. Trump lacks all of those things. He is
not dumb but neither is he intelligent. He is a good manipulator
but he has an ego that is bigger than even RE (if such a thing
is possible). And since he has been rich or in power most of his
life... Well the results speak for itself or in today's case
twitter!
>
> Also Trump is not a man of integrity so I do not think it is
fitting to call him a patriot.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
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Date: July 2, 2018, 5:21 pm
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> [center]In Virginia, Black Clergy 🕊 Lead Charge
Against Fossil Fuel 🦖 Lobby[/center]
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> Black communities in Virginia, led in large part by faith
leaders, are galvanizing against fossil fuel lobby messaging
specifically targeted to them, according to a new report from
Grist.
>
> A Koch-funded gospel concert to surreptitiously promote oil
and gas held in Richmond in 2016 generated significant backlash
in the community, activists say--and encouraged many community
members and faith leaders to reconsider how the fossil fuel
industry targets and exploits black Americans. [size=14pt]"God
didn’t put me on this earth to pimp death ☠️ for
profit," Rev. Paul Wilson
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concert
and was recently arrested protesting the Atlantic Coast
Pipeline, told Grist. "That’s what the [/size]Kochs 🦕
and these energy folks 😈 are doing to my people now.
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> It’s up to us in the church to stop it."
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> The Koch Brothers 🦀 Vs. God
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 2, 2018, 5:27 pm
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> Agelbert NOTE: The following article is excellent. It provides
evidence of the stubborn, as well as stupid, internal combustion
engine worshipping position of most, if not ALL, US gas guzzler
manufacturers. The article exposes the breathtaking hypocrisy of
lobbying the Trump Tool of the fossil fuel industry for lower
fuel efficiency standards while claiming to "plan" to
manufacture and market millions of EVs abroad.
>
> The fossil fuelers 🦖 have always used greenwashing PR
to hide their continued support of the polluting profit over
people and planet status quo.
>
> Another example of ongoing greenwashing by these serial liars
who profit from fossil fuels, not mentioned in this article, is
the announcement by Statoil (the Norwegian Oil & Gas Giant) to
change their name to Equinor
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/>using the rather threadbare justification of recent (but in
comparison to oil & gas, token) investments in wind power.
>
> I included the recent comments on the US polluting car
manufacturers' hypocrisy article because they are even better
than the article. ;D
>
> [center]Automakers Tout Overseas EV Investments 😇,
While Lobbying For Lower Fuel Standards In US 😈[/center]
>
> March 17th, 2018 by Guest Contributor
>
> Originally published on Nexus Media.
>
> By Owen Agnew
>
> SNIPPET:
>
> In 2009, President Obama, flanked by auto executives in the
White House Rose Garden, announced new fuel efficiency standards
for automobiles. The new standards, which came on the heels of
the auto industry bailout, had the support of carmakers. Dave
McCurdy, then-president of the Alliance of Automobile
Manufacturers, an industry trade group, said in a statement that
“what’s significant about the announcement is it launches a new
beginning, an era of cooperation.”
>
> Now, the Auto Alliance 😈 is lobbying the Trump
🦀 administration
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the timeline for reaching future targets — even as
automakers develop new electric cars to be sold overseas.
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> Full article:[/size]
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> EXCELLENT COMMENTS!
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> [quote]
> Steve_S • 6 hours ago
> "push for regulations that would bring the United States in
line with Europe and China“
>
> LMAO seriously, under Trump it will NEVER HAPPEN ! His
belligerent disdain for everyone aside from the US is palpable
just like how he believes that anyone making less than 1 million
a year is a "Deplorable" and they are but chattel to me
manipulated.
>
> You can be certain that the Big-3 will again need bailouts and
will have their hands out and fingers dipping into the public
wallet because they sat on the sidelines in their own Home
Market. I hope that their attempts in Europe & China actually
fail and ultimately shoves them out to the fringes. Not because
I want to hurt "people" working for these fossilized companies
but because this is what these companies deserve for their
ongoing part in gassing the world. Their duplicity should be the
cause of their demise.
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> Harry Johnson • 5 hours ago
> Automakers need to prepare for their cigarette moment. Selling
products harmful to people's health and the environment can no
longer be morally justified. The LA area has seen harmful ozone
levels rise over the last two years with 145 alert days. Burning
bans are routinely enacted around the country on smoggy days,
why should that exclude burning gas and diesel?
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> BigWu Harry Johnson • 2 hours ago
> Excellent post and interesting idea re extending burn bans to
fuels!
>
> If owners were banned from burning fuel nearly 1/3 of the time
in car-loving LA, surely that would induce VERY rapid
electrification of the fleet.
>
> Furthermore, such a burn ban makes more sense IMO than
year-round bans being proposed by some cities. It keeps it
directly tied to health, thus avoiding silly flat earther and
magical thinking counterarguments.
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> exdent11 • 5 hours ago
> U.S. car manufacturer executives have short memories. They got
caught with excess inventory of gas guzzlers in 2008 and it is
going to happen again. Some tech companies are going to produce
affordable,low maintenance SUV and light truck electric
platforms with superior performance and the American companies
will be left behind.
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> Fred exdent11 • 4 hours ago
> Electric technology innovation will either be their savior or
their killer. At this moment, it appears that FCA is a goner,
and Ford and GM will end up being about 1/3 the size of today.
The Asian and European makers have the same day of reckoning
coming too, regardless of today's stance on fuel economy.
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> Martin exdent11 • 4 hours ago
> Yes, just look what happened in Germany. The German post
office wanted EV's, was told they could not be provided, so they
build them themselves and are selling them as well. :)
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> Steve_S Martin • 4 hours ago
> Maybe German Post could start it's own EV Company with
partnerships with parts makers... Could be a great income source
for the Post Office & Government too ! The German PO is still a
Government operation right ?
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> George Danchev Steve_S • 30 minutes ago
> A small portion is owned by the government.
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> Fred • 5 hours ago
> Who cares if they relax fuel economy standards? The whole
system is a mess anyway, especially in the US but even in Europe
too, because various commercial vehicles get exempted or various
sliding scales. Electric technology is preparing sweep the
market due to the raw economics and raw performance, rendering
all of these rules irrelevant anyway. Technology innovation and
the free-market economics have proven to be a far more powerful
a force than quotas etc in the fields of solar and wind
generation; the economics of coal are killing coal, not quotas
and restrictions for example. I'm optimistic that technology
will quickly wipe out the combustion engine for ground
transport, so none of this really matters.
>
> Do we want to do something that will work and make a
difference? Then apply fuel economy metrics and standards that
will have a huge impact, then buildings should all be measured
and get a performance rating for "mpg", like some European
countries have begun to do. Every building, whether residential
or commercial, should have a required energy performance
evaluation at the time of construction, resale, or rental, with
a roadmap to cover the entire inventory over several years. This
area remains completely opaque to society and consumes vast
amounts of hydrocarbons to heat and cool.
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> Tony Reyes Fred • 41 minutes ago
> Exactly my thoughts.
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> Matt • 3 hours ago
> So I guess Tom Stricker point is we need a massive raise in
the fuel tax. Say increase $0.10/month for next 3 years. The
would shape the demand better MPG vehicles so people will want
to buy them. And we would not need to raise corp milage
standards. Money raised can go to bridge repair, we are short at
least $100B for that right now. Oh and the Highway Trust Fund is
currently insolvent. We get a bite into the back long can move
to improve mass transit. Once above $1/gal half the monthly
raise can go to the state road fund. They can use it for their
road costs, or mass transit, or EV infrastructure, or reduced
their gas tax if they are hard headed.
>
> PS: Yes a better plan would be $0.50 now and $0.05/month, but
congress has refused for years to even talk about an increase.
They just keep decreasing number of repairs and inspections.
>
> PPS: Don't want to hear s h i t about it would hurt he poor.
The poor are hurt much more but other regressive taxes. And
since they don't own several large SUVs they are less impacted.
We do some many mean and hurt things in this country and then
say we can't fix it because it might hurt the poor. Instead let
get off our collect asses and address the income inequality in
the country. And saying we don't have to because Jesus said
there would "aways be poor" is ....
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> Fred Matt • 3 hours ago
> This has certainly been the obvious technical and economic
answer since the 1970s. Even a revenue-neutral gas tax would
have helped greatly. I'm good at engineering and economics.
Terrible at governing humans and politics, however and I don't
see how this could ever fly.
>
> Meanwhile, over in the fields of technical innovation,
electric powertrains are going to decimate combustion ground
transport due to superior economics and performance.
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> steveb944 • an hour ago
> And that's why the only American car I'll consider is Tesla,
well the only car in general.
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> Bugz • 44 minutes ago
> End the 20 billion a year tax incentives for Oil and coal
serving essentially as subsidies to the industry and let's see
if it even holds up to what people would be required to pay at
that point. Then I'd be all for removing any standards, but this
will never occur because the forces of the global petrol dollar
are shaking in their boots at the thought of losing their
established and entrenched stranglehold on the global economies.
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> sjc_1 Bugz • 18 minutes ago
> If oil companies had to pay the real costs of oil and not get
depletion allowances, they would operate more ethically. It is a
co dependence that has gone on for more than 100 years.
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> sjc_1 • 20 minutes ago
> Sell a few thousand EVs in China while they 😈 sell a
few million trucks and SUVs in the U.S.
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> Ken Cova • 19 minutes ago
> “Automakers Tout Overseas EV Investments, While Lobbying For
Lower Fuel Standards In US”
>
> Good reporting. It’s this sort of crap that gives Capitalism a
bad name.
>
> This is just one more example of why — as a people — we
Americans need to be setting the boundaries and guardrails for
the corporations, and not the other way around. The companies
and their lobbyists need to be shoved back into their own lane,
so they can concentrate on doing their businessy things, and so
the rest of us can get on with running the place as we’re
supposed to be doing.
>
> The irony is that if the business community would just focus
on actually doing business instead of trying to run our entire
society they’d still manage to make oodles of cash. Having
sensible guardrails to limit the damage that companies can do to
people and places does nothing to inhibit their opportunity to
make a buck.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 2, 2018, 5:28 pm
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> [center]Black Ministers In Virginia Tell Koch Brothers
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> March 17th, 2018 by Steve Hanley
>
> SNIPPET:
>
> I got slapped around a bit last week for a story condemning
the Koch brothers that used a word in the title some found
offensive. If anyone wonders why my Irish ire gets inflamed by
these two charlatans, perhaps this story will explain why they
may be the most dangerous individuals in America today and why,
in the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger, they deserve to be
prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
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>
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> [center]A Deliberate Attack
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> No two people on the planet have done more to seize control of
the levers of power than Charles [size=18pt]🦕 and David
Koch 🦖 .[/size] They, not Donald Trump, have plunged
America into a dystopian era where poor people are treated as
trash to be wiped from the face of the Earth while the wealthy —
who are predominantly white males — are given extravagant tax
breaks for no other reason than they have the “correct” skin
color.
>
> Make no mistake — racism is at the root of much of what the
Koch brothers do. They are behind the drive to gerrymander state
voting districts so the political power of blacks and Latinos is
diminished. They are the primary architects of the movement to
deny poor people access to polling places. And, recently, one of
their despicable front organizations by the name of Fueling US
Forward was heavily involved in trying to get black churches in
Virginia to support the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which will
transmit natural gas from West Virginia to eastern Virginia and
the rest of the Atlantic seaboard.
>
> Full truth filled article:
>
>
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> [move][I]The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy
Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting
CRIME,[COLOR=BROWN] but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and
conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID
[/color] DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE! Don't let
them get away with it! Pass it on!
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 2, 2018, 5:28 pm
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> Union of Concerned Scientists
>
> March 23, 2018
>
> Uncovered 🕵️: proof of automakers' climate
denial
>
>
> [center]Automakers 😈 are Manufacturing Climate
Denial[/center]
>
> [center]While touting their environmentally friendly image to
consumers, automakers are letting their lobbyists go way off
script and use cherry-picked and disreputable studies to
question the impacts of climate change and air
pollution.[/center]
>
> Auto companies want their consumers to think they've cleaned
up their act. Toyota commercials show ice figure skaters crying
about climate change, and Ford publicly supports the Paris
Climate Agreement.
>
> So why are the automakers letting their trade association
spread blatant mistruths?
>
> The Auto Alliance, which represents most major global auto
companies, recently sent a letter to government regulators that
attempts to cast doubt on climate science, the impacts of global
warming, and the negative health effects of air pollution. Their
goal is to weaken the federal vehicle efficiency standards that
UCS supporters like you helped pass.
>
> In the letter, they reference a jumble of cherry-picked and
discredited studies in their attempt to sideline science. This
tactic of spreading misinformation is nothing new, automakers
used the same methods in their past campaigns against seat belts
and airbags. But this is the first time in 20 years that they've
taken such a public anti-science stance.
>
> Tell Ford and Toyota that they can't let their trade
association spread blatantly fake science while their car
commercials tout their green cred
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 2, 2018, 5:29 pm
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> Agelbert NOTE: Must view video for those who wish to
understand how corporations in general, and the Fossil Fuel
Industry Fascists
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in
particular, used the Citizens United Travesty of a Supreme
Fascist Court Decison to LEGALLY BRIBE the Republicans to Deny
Climate Change. The devastating effect of Citizens United on
Climate Policy has, without a doubt, accelerated the timetable
of Catastraphic Climate Change damage 🔥
💧🌊 [color=black]🌪[/color]that will
increasingly make life difficult to impossible on this planet.
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> [center]
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> [center]Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, "Captured: The Corporate
Infiltration 💣 Of American Democracy"[/center]
>
> Politics and Prose
>
> Published on Mar 9, 2017
>
>
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>
> In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor
Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate
influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a
first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer's Dark Money.
>
> Americans know something is wrong in their government. Senator
Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal
experiences to provide the first hands-on, comprehensive
explanation of what's gone wrong, exposing multiple avenues
through which our government has been infiltrated and disabled
by corporate powers.
>
> Captured reveals an original oversight by the Founders, and
shows how and why corporate power has exploited that
vulnerability: to strike fear in elected representatives who
don't "get right" by threatening million-dollar "dark money"
election attacks (a threat more effective and less expensive
than the actual attack); to stack the judiciary--even the
Supreme Court--in "business-friendly" ways; to "capture" the
administrative agencies meant to regulate corporate behavior; to
undermine the civil jury, the Constitution's last bastion for
ordinary citizens; and to create a corporate "alternate reality"
on public health and safety issues like climate change.
>
> Captured shows that in this centuries-long struggle between
corporate power and individual liberty, we can and must take our
American government back into our own hands.
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Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
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Date: July 2, 2018, 5:30 pm
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> [center]Judge Rejects Exxon's Attempt to Shut Down Climate
Fraud Investigations
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> The federal judge called Exxon's claim that its free speech
rights were being violated by the state investigations 'a wild
stretch of logic.'
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
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Date: July 2, 2018, 5:31 pm
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> [center]Pruitt’s [b]Not-So-Prudent Pad 💵 🎩
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>
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/>We’ll be frank: Scott Pruitt 😈 has tired us out this
week. From his pricey tastes in travel to his (suspiciously)
budget preferences for DC housing, we’ve been treated to some
invaluable insights into how Pruitt is taking advantage of his
time and position in Washington. Let’s recap what we’ve learned
since just last week (!) on Pruitt’s curious choices for crash
pads.
>
> First, ABC News reported last week that Pruitt stayed in a
Capitol Hill condo co-owned by the wife of a top energy lobbyist
for his first six months in DC. After initially refusing to
disclose how much Pruitt was paying for the pad, the EPA
reported that Pruitt paid $50 per night, but only on nights he
stayed at the condo.
>
> It then emerged in a second ABC story that Pruitt’s daughter
also stayed at the condo, despite statements from the EPA that
Pruitt paid for a single bedroom. Vicki Hart, wife of energy
lobbyist J. Steven Hart and co-owner of the condo, was also
apparently unaware of the situation. “The rental agreement was
with Scott Pruitt,” she told ABC. “If other people were using
the bedroom or the living quarters, I was never told, and I
never gave him permission to do that.”
>
> In our favorite turn events, ABC released a third story over
the weekend. Apparently Pruitt’s security detail broke down the
condo’s front door after they weren’t able to reach him by
phone. Turns out, Pruitt....was napping (super relatable). The
EPA then refunded the condo owners for the cost of the false
rescue attempt--which, by the way, was still less expensive than
Ryan Zinke’s door.
>
> A key takeaway from this scandal (that we’d love to try
applying to our next round of apartment-hunting): apparently, if
your landlord is an energy lobbyist, you can get a great deal on
your rent. According to an analysis from the Center for American
Progress, Pruitt’s $50 per night fee is less than one-fourth of
the going rate for similar digs, and other apartments in the
building have gone for as much as $5000 per month.
>
> And it’s not like he was living in a boring
neighborhood--Pruitt’s address is the hip place to be if you’re
a GOP booster. The Daily Beast reported Monday that the
downstairs of Pruitt’s townhouse served as a popular hotspot for
lawmakers, hosting fundraisers for at least three members of
Congress while Pruitt was crashing upstairs. While the EPA says
Pruitt did not attend any of these events in an official
capacity, and ethics laws don’t prohibit him from attending
fundraisers in his spare time, we can only imagine the chummy
cocktail chatter we may have had with the parties downstairs.
>
> An ethics official at the EPA issued a memo a day after the
initial ABC report clearing Pruitt of any wrongdoing with
regards to federal ethics rules. Unfortunately for the agency,
they may want to take another edit at this memo after the New
York Times reported yesterday that in March, the EPA signed off
on a pipeline project lobbied for by the husband of Pruitt’s
landlord. (Also on J. Steven Hart’s company’s docket: lobbying
on behalf of Oklahoma Gas to repeal the Clean Power Plan.)
>
> Environmental groups were quick to call foul on Pruitt’s
living situation last week, and they weren’t the only ones. More
than 15 members of Congress (Grijalva, Lee, Sarbanes, Lieu,
Brown, Quigley, Adams, Blumenauer, Price, Coleman, Schakowsky,
Kennedy, Rush, Castor, Lowenthal and Beyer, in case you were
wondering) have called for Pruitt to resign via Twitter. Former
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie also weighed in during ABC’s
This Week, saying “I don’t know how you survive this one.”
Christie, who probably qualifies as an expert on scandal at this
point, added that Pruitt “never should’ve been there in the
first place,” referring to his post as EPA administrator.
>
> An administration official reportedly told POLITICO last week
that the White House “stands behind” Pruitt, but recent history
has shown how quickly their tune can change--especially if the
boss is upset. If these ethical concerns continue, the
administration may have no choice but to show Pruitt the
(rebuilt) door.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 2, 2018, 5:32 pm
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> [quote]In case your permanent state of infuriation was
starting to wane
HTML https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a19705583/kevin-williamson-the-atlantic-free-press/,<br
/>here’s some more evidence that the oil companies knew about
the
dangers of climate change long before the rest of us did, and
that they financed climate denialism despite what they knew long
before the rest of us. From Inside Climate News:
>
> They show that as the company pondered its responsibility to
act, Shell's scientists urged it to heed the early warnings,
even if, as they said, it might take until the 2000s for the
mounting evidence to prove greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
were causing unnatural climate change. "With the very long time
scales involved, it would be tempting for society to wait until
then before doing anything," company researchers wrote in a 1988
report based on studies completed in 1986. "The potential
implications for the world are, however, so large that policy
options need to be considered much earlier. And the energy
industry needs to consider how it should play its part."
Otherwise, a team of Shell experts said, "it could be too late
to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even
to stabilize the situation.
>
> The parallels to the way the tobacco industry used to operate
are becoming very hard to ignore.
>
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The scientists told the truth. The profit over people and planet
Shell corporate board of directors did what they have always
done about "externalized" costs.
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> The parallels to the way the tobacco industry used to operate
are becoming very hard to ignore.
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Yep. VERY, VERY IMPOSSIBLY HARD TO IGNORE.
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