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EPA Director Scott Pruitt: Major announcement in Hazard, KY

(re: Clean Air is a Hoax)

What is Trump's Line: Erase Everything Obama

This background introduces the following post for today, re: Science and Climate Change Deniers Strike Hard Blow Against Clean Air. 

FACTS: Or just call it Science Education 101: Most GOPers use the word “theory” as their definition or personal idea or hunch to show that someone holds a view that is untrue or unproven, and that is totally false and incorrect.

In science, for example, the word “theory” refers to the way a person or team of persons interpret facts to reach a conclusion about a problem to be solved.

For example: Most if not all dictionaries say that every scientific theory starts out as a hypothesis, that is: “An idea that hasn't been proven yet, but if enough evidence accumulates to support the hypothesis, it moves to the next step, which is called a theory.” Like for E=MC2 or theory of gravity, or Heliocentrism from Copernicus in 1543 (i.e., that the Earth revolves around the Sun and not the Sun around Earth).

In the scientific method approach that becomes accepted as a valid explanation of a phenomenon or problem that is being studied that needs a solution to prove or in some cases disprove any hypothesis.

Most Republicans however, fail to not only distrust this method or even to fully comprehend the steps (methodology) since they are basically “anti-science” about most anything – that is a proven fact – neither my hypothesis nor a theory – and the whole world knows that – just listen to them try and explain away climate change, birth control, or some tough math problem.

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Now the story and the total irony in the story: First is the name of city where this story took place “Hazard” (KY) – how about hazards to our health? That is dirty, filthy, and polluted air which everyone needs to breathe and live? Oops…!!!

HAZARD, KY (from NPR) – Scott Pruitt, EPA Chief, announced that he and is agency will sign a new rule overriding the “Clean Power Plan” which was an Obama-era effort to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants – i.e., another attack on Mr. Obama, whom Trump hates and is trying to erase forever – plain as day.

The story from Pruitt in this statement is ironic: “The war on coal is over. No federal agency should ever use its authority to declare war on any sector of our economy.”

I Note: But Federal agencies and EO’s signed by Trump are free to declare war on women and their birth control healthcare, or children and theirs (no funding CHIP), or seniors and Medicare and Social Security under fire (again), or low-income or no-income or disabled people losing Medicaid and SNAP.

I see, I see.

What a bunch of lousy, nasty, just plain awful people the GOP has become – just awful and that’s from Trump on down the line – just terrible and biased to boot.

For Pruitt, getting rid of the Clean Power Plan will mark the culmination of a long fight he began as the former AG in Oklahoma. Pruitt is among about two-dozen attorney generals who sued to stop President Barack Obama's push to limit carbon emissions. Closely tied to the oil and gas industry in his home state, Pruitt rejects the consensus of scientists that man-man emissions from burning fossil fuels are the primary driver of global climate change.

Trump shares Pruitt’s and other’s anti-sciece view and skepticism of established climate science. He plans to kill (and is killing) the Clean Power Plan and other Obama era programs – why? Trump hates Mr. Obama. 

Trump's 2020 campaign logo will probably be this:

Grabbed from GQ - nice logo

In his order, Pruitt is expected to declare that the Obama-era rule exceeded federal law by setting emissions standards that power plants could not reasonably meet. Pruitt appeared at an event with Senate Majority Leader McConnell at Whayne Supply in Hazard, a company that sells coal mining supplies and laid off 60% of its workers in recent years.

While cheering the demise of the Clean Power Plan as a way to stop the bleeding, McConnell conceded most of those lost jobs are never coming back, saying: “A lot of damage has been done. This doesn't immediately bring everything back, but we think it stops further decline of coal fired plants in the United States and that means there will still be some market here.”

Noteworthy: Obama's plan was designed to cut U.S. carbon dioxide emissions to 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The rule dictated specific emission targets for states based on power-plant emissions and gave officials broad latitude to decide how to achieve reductions. The Supreme Court put the plan on hold last year following legal challenges by industry and coal-friendly states.

The plan helped drive a recent wave of retirements of coal-fired plants, which also are being squeezed by lower costs for natural gas and renewable power, as well as state mandates promoting energy conservation.

This is Trump’s latest move in a series of others to dismantle Obama's legacy on fighting climate change, including the delay or roll back of rules limiting levels of toxic pollution in smokestack emissions and wastewater discharges from coal-burning power plants, and that is on top of Trump saying he pull the United States out of the landmark Paris climate agreement, which nearly 200 countries have committed to combat global warming by reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.

Shame on Trump and anyone who voted for him … he is a disgrace to the country and world as a whole and a total menace to science and medicine and that is clear as a bell.

More sick Irony from Pruitt: “This president has tremendous courage. He put America first and said to the rest of the world we are going to say no and exit the Paris Accord. That was the right thing to do.”

(I say Pruitt is as crazy and misguided and narrow-minded as Trump – and that’s not good for anyone, anywhere, and at any time).

Environmental groups and public health advocates quickly derided the decision as short sighted with the Sierra Club director, Michael Brune saying:

“Trump is not just ignoring the deadly cost of pollution, he's ignoring the clean energy deployment that is rapidly creating jobs across the country.”

Why am I not surprised by this latest from Trump?

But, the real question is: Why do we tolerate this crap. That a very fair question.

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