For more than three decades, it’s been almost invariably accepted in policymaking circles that fossil fuel use must be reduced and then eliminated altogether if we are to save the planet. [some emphasis, links added]
But the second Trump administration has restored reason and logic to the energy and environment debate. Every American who enjoys the life-giving benefits of fossil fuels today should be thankful.
Monday’s entertaining exchange between Environmental Protection Agency Director Lee Zeldin and Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro from Connecticut, who seems to have never been hinged to reality, is a bright spot we’ve needed for some time.
DeLauro, 83, behaved like a bratty child while Zeldin, 46, kept his cool and explained things to DeLauro as if she were his student.
“Section 202 of the Clean Air Act,” Zeldin said in response to DeLauro’s insistence that he was “abandoning” the EPA’s “duty to protect Americans” from global warming. “Where does it say anything about fighting global climate change?”
DeLauro would have been better off to come back with a courtly “touche,” but instead screamed and wagged her finger at Zeldin after he silenced her by mentioning Supreme Court environmental cases she apparently knew nothing about.
The purple-haired DeLauro later said that Zeldin should maybe try drinking a cup of glyphosate, the active ingredient in weed killer Roundup.
In a town where hot air, witless politicians, and ruinous policies outweigh sensibility, Zeldin gives hope.
Earlier this month, the New York Times reported that “Zeldin has fundamentally shifted both the EPA’s mission and the words he uses to describe it.”
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the 2022 inflation reduction act named CO2 as a pollutant
and gave EPA the direction to regulate CO2
trump has decided to ignore the law and
having presidents ignore congressional laws
is not a good thing for the united states
republicans control both houses of congress
and could easily repeal the 2022 inflation reduction act
but they haven’t bothered and trump could not care less
if they do
the true democracy the president is supposed to enforce
the laws made by congress that’s no longer happening
in the united states
Ignoring Congressional laws is not a good thing for the United States but is all too common. Congressional passed the The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banning discrimination on the bases of race, color, religion, or sex. The US Constitution requires equal protection under the law. But since 1964 there has been massive discrimination against men, especially white men, in the form of affirmative action. This even continues under President Trump with many large household name companies continuing their DEI practices. The practice is getting worse in places. My 34 year old son quickly rose to one of the top software engineers of his company. Yet, he tells that today his university would never have admit him to their software engineering program due to discrimination against white males.
What I find interesting that Greene seems to be the only one talking about this issue. Seems that Democrats have not said anything which makes me think they don’t either know what was in the bill or that they don’t care or even it’s not really in the bill. I dunno. Nor care.