The new motto for the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.,) according to NBC, Dan Rather, and others is to “Make Polluting Great and Legal Again.” Over the last 48 hours, the Trump/Musk/Vance Central Committee, through executive orders and the direction of E.P.A. Director Lee Zeldin, environmental protections have been shoved away, clean energy and anti-pollution grants … Read more
Another day with the country sliding towards an American Dark Age and what Rachel Bitecofer calls a Trumpcession. Halving the United States Department of Education staff. Revoking $20 billion in Environmental Protection Agency Climate Change Grants. Cutting one billion in programs that provide school meals and food security. Playing tariff war with Canada and tanking … Read more
Welcome to the 2025 version of the Dark Ages. Donald Trump, the person who during his first term in the Oval Office issued preposterous statements that windmills cause cancer and injecting bleach in your arms could ward off the Coronavirus, has launched a second war on science in the first three weeks of his return … Read more
Congressional Democrats led by Massachusetts Senator Ed Markley gathered again next to a government agency that the Musk/Trump Administration is targeting for massive cutbacks. Today, that organization was the Environmental Protection Agency where the Musk/Trump Administration has announced that they are doing away with the 168 person staffed Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights Division. … Read more
The Isaac Elementary School District in Phoenix has taken another step in advancing the drive to sustainability and clean energy by receiving an Environmental Protection Agency Clean Bus Grant for $18 million to “replace six fossil fuel buses with six electric powered ones along with charging infrastructure.” Isaac had recently celebrated receipt of another federal … Read more