This week, Trump signed executive orders that, among other things, rescinded a moratorium on new coal permits on public land. Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke quickly followed with an order rolling back the moratorium. The Obama administrations had placed the moratorium on permits because the fees collected hadn’t been adjusted in decades, and the […]
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Finding Truth
According to Dictionary.com, triangulation is: The location of an unknown point, as in navigation, by the formation of a triangle having the unknown point and two known points as the vertices. When I studied history in college I had a professor tell me that the only way to discover the truth behind an event is […]
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They… are watching you
Today, Trump is likely to sign the latest in Congressional Review Act bills, this one to overturn a new FCC rule that would force ISPs to get permission from users to collect and share personal information. The Senate was the first to toss the privacy rule, followed by the House. The vote was along party […]
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Testing tool
We have sewer problems where we’re at because Lake Saint Louis force main dumps into our O’Fallon gravity main directly in front of our neighbors. The line is overwhelmed, and gasses build up. I don’t feel a high degree of confidence when I see that the ‘tool’ they’re using to collect gases for testing is […]
NRDC, The Communication Workers of America, and Public Citizen just filed a lawsuit against Trump’s infamous “two-fer” rule. This is the rule I’ve designated the Terminator Rule. From the lawsuit: To repeal two regulations for the purpose of adopting one new one, based solely on a directive to impose zero net costs and without any […]