While FL Gov. Scott and the NC Legislature have their heads stuck in the sand and up their asses in refusing to acknowledge climate change, South Florida is already having serious issues... http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realesta ... &ocid=iehp
But of course, as a Naples and part-time Tallahassee resident, why should Scott care about Miami and the Keys?
Not that it will ever happen but I would support a bill denying federal climate change related disaster aid to red states and states that took little or no meaningful action to reduce their carbon footprint.
Well, that's sorta like denying disaster assistance to somebody who gets flooded out of their beach-front home they built on a lot that was empty because the last house got flooded away. Lady O would do that, although it may not have occurred to her at the time that we lived in a house where everytime we went out the street we passed a sign showing how high various tidal surges would be, with the top well over our heads. But hey - we weren't oceanfront, so there.
"The United States must stop fracking, drilling and mining fossil fuels on our precious public lands. Pass Sen. Merkley’s 'Keep It in the Ground Act' now."
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
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Congress failed in an attempt to dismantle safeguards that help stop natural gas waste and methane pollution on public lands.
Despite heavy pressure from the oil and gas lobby, Congress was unable to kill the Bureau of Land Management Methane and Waste Prevention Rule, also known as the BLM methane rule, on May 10.
Thirteen times Congress has used the reckless and seldom-used Congressional Review Act to repeal Obama-era rules. But for the first time since Trump’s election, they failed, in huge blow to the fossil fuel industry.
Repealing the rule would have eased the pressure on corporate polluters to comply with environmental safeguards, but tens of thousands of Americans wrote, called and tweeted at their elected officials to uphold the BLM methane rule and not give into the the deep pockets of the oil and gas lobby....
(no fossil fuels were used in the posting of this emoji)
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
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Donald Trump, corporate polluters and their allies in Congress want to pass new legislation that would make it much harder to put in place new environmental protections for our air, water and health. The bill is called the Regulatory Accountability Act, but it should be called the Risk to Americans Act — because it won't hold anyone accountable and it puts our health and safety at risk.
Instead, this reckless bill will make it easier for corporate polluters to block new health and safety standards and to dodge responsibility for the environmental damage they cause.
We can't trust big polluters to police themselves. Tell your senators to protect our environmental safeguards by opposing this dangerous bill.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
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"Reject attempts to sabotage basic protections that keep Americans safe. No Democrat should be supporting the corporate handout Regulatory Accountability Act."
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
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Stop Congress from opening America's wildest place to drilling
Emboldened by the Trump administration, pro-fossil fuel members of Congress see their chance to finally open the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling.
We believe they may launch a sneak attack through the congressional budget process any week now.
If they win, we could lose the splendor of Arctic Refuge once and for all.
My Rep. Chuck McGrady (R) volunteered in his newsletter: "I have a lot of history with billboard bills, and in my opinion, these bills amount to nothing more than corporate welfare for the billboard industry."
Not so long ago most beaches in my area outlawed glass. I suppose it was done to prevent the occasional cut foot.
I wonder if the increase in litter on Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach could have anything to do with people being most conscious of the immediate danger of the glass to kids and others and taking more care to take the glass and the rest of their garbage home
As opposed to the ease of walking away from plastic bags, bottles and their cheap coolers - after all, who could it hurt
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
There's not all that much that still comes in glass. I doubt that its banning or shunning is the root of the problem. People are just pigs (apologies to pigs).
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
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I've spent much of my life living at or within biking distance from a beach. I've taken plastic bags and six-pack rings, and generated some trash from food and poop from the dogs and I've never left so much as a crumb on the beach. I'd sign a petition to keep rednecks and feral kids off the beach.
Rednecks, yes, but feral kids are gonna be feral wherever they are, and they're just kids, grampa. Call me a weirdo, but I like shrieking chaos. It makes me smile.
Any undeveloped place I go I try to pick up some trash, not only because it's right but also under the assumption that I've sometimes accidentally left something behind.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.