Wednesday, September 18, 2019

More Air Pollution is the GOP Way

The Trump administration is expected on Wednesday to formally revoke California's legal authority to set tailpipe pollution rules that are stricter than federal rules, in a move designed by the White House to strike twin blows against both the liberal-leaning state that President Trump has long antagonized and the environmental legacy of President Barack Obama. 
The announcement that the White House will revoke one of California's signature environmental policies will come while Mr. Trump is traveling in the state, where he is scheduled to attend fund-raisers in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley. The formal revocation of California's authority to set its own rules on tailpipe pollution -- the United States' largest source of greenhouse emissions -- will be announced Wednesday afternoon at a private event at the Washington headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency, according to two people familiar with the matter. A White House spokesman referred questions on the matter to the Environmental Protection Agency. A spokesman for the E.P.A. did not respond to an email requesting comment. Xavier Becerra, the attorney general of California, wrote in an email: "California will continue its advance toward a cleaner future. We're prepared to defend the standards that make that promise a reality." 

1) How do you revoke the right of a state to set a policy like this? What happened to state's rights? Revoke authority? Like they can't make their own laws? WTF???

2) Fuck anyone in California who donates to this psychopath's campaign !!!

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Gutting HealthCare Protections


Health Insurance That Doesn’t Cover the Bills Has Flooded the Market Under Trump
The administration’s moves to weaken the Affordable Care Act have taken hold, and companies are cashing in.


Many patients are giving these new kinds of insurance where it covers next to nothing and almost no facilities are in network because the insurance gives payouts that are totally inadequate.
This results in people thinking they have health coverage and then getting a terrible surprise once they are sick and in the hospital.
And who gets blamed for this? Obamacare ... not the fact that the GOP has gutted the regulations that were intended to keep insurance companies accountable.

It's pure evil.

Poisoning the Planet for Fun and Profit

GOP motherfucking assholes:
Trump administration rolls back landmark water protections
By ANNIE SNIDER 09/12/2019 10:21 AM EDT 
 The Trump administration will on Thursday repeal one of the Obama era's most sweeping environmental rules — a set of pollution protections for small streams and wetlands that had riled up opposition from coal miners, home developers, farmers and oil and gas drillers. 
The action creates instant doubts about the legal status of myriad seasonal or isolated wetlands and thousands of miles of waterways, including vast swaths of the arid West. And it clears the way for the Environmental Protection Agency to finish a follow-up regulation in the coming months that could leave most of the nation's wetlands without any federal safeguards.