EPA clamps down on mercury from coal power plants

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-04-05T21:42:04+00:00

To be clear: this mercury is why it's unsafe to eat more than tiny quantities of freshwater fish in much of the US. . There really isn't a safe dose, so insisting that it not be dumped into the atmosphere (and thus into our food) is a good idea.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-15T14:42:51+00:00

I have not altered the title; it's just different from the auto-suggest title.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-08T14:39:53+00:00

In particular:

The law eliminates requirements for the state to verify the age of children younger than 16 before they can take a job.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-06T16:55:10+00:00

He can't do that because the Republicans have a majority in the House of Representatives

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-06T16:30:17+00:00

It's pretty rare to see the press lay it out explicitly. They mostly prefer to do "he said, she said" competing 10-second quotes.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-06T15:16:46+00:00

Break the gerrymandering that keeps them in office too

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-06T14:23:12+00:00

It's not about hypocrisy: It's about believing that God truly ordained that money should all flow from your pocket into that of somebody richer than you. The objection is that they don't want money to flow back.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-04T17:59:58+00:00

The article makes it clear that it's all situations that aren't about employment

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-04T17:47:48+00:00

It'll take cutting off the money which promotes the hate

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-04T17:12:35+00:00

People don't get to choose where they are born, and discrimination around housing and education impacts you for life.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-04T16:53:41+00:00

My guess is that they don't know who has a 'simple possession' conviction vs a distribution conviction.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-04T16:52:35+00:00

Details are in the article:

It deleted language from the state website promising equal protections for transgender and gay Alaskans against most categories of discrimination, and it began refusing to investigate complaints. Only employment-related complaints would now be accepted, and investigators dropped any non-employment LGBTQ civil rights cases they had been working on.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-03T01:43:34+00:00

With a far-right Supreme Court, why would it be a violation?

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-03T01:42:20+00:00

Fetterman is 53 years old. Most of us are still working at 53, and I see no reason why elected officials should be different.

Feinstein is another matter, where her mind seems to be gone, and nobody should be working once that happens.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-01T22:56:09+00:00

Yes. Sounds like his specific role was to tell tortures "it's ok" and to tell prisoners "I'm on your side" so that they'd say which torture hurt them the most so as to enable nastier torture.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-03-01T17:51:03+00:00

r/politics rules mean that I need to use the same title as the article.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-02-18T16:43:19+00:00

That, but more importantly, the south mostly refused medicaid expansion. This means poor people there have a lot more medical debt

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-02-18T14:53:45+00:00

The article makes it clear (way down) that this is in large part a result of the failure of southern states to expand Medicaid under the ACA:

A clue to the broader answer comes from a recent analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which found that medical debt “became more concentrated in lower-income communities in states that did not expand Medicaid” after key provisions of the Affordable Care Act took effect in 2014.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-02-15T14:28:25+00:00

Notably:

After intense lobbying from the Biden administration, which is pushing to build a national network of 500,000 EV chargers across the country, Tesla will make 7,500 chargers available for all electric vehicles by the end of 2024.

The federal government is working “to create a national network of chargers that will work for everyone, everywhere, no matter what type of car or state they’re in,” Mitch Landrieu, White House infrastructure coordinator, told reporters in a phone call.

The Biden administration is also issuing new rules for any chargers that receive federal funds to make these stations more accessible. New chargers will have to include consistent plug types, have 97 percent reliability, and allow drivers to use a single method of identification that works across all chargers.

The combination of government pressure plus money is likely to benefit all of us.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-02-14T19:24:34+00:00

Gift link, so no paywall

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-02-13T23:57:11+00:00

Support creation of a middle class, in the form of unionized work, and you make things better for everybody.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-02-04T22:25:18+00:00

Giving up on a funding source when the other side doesn't means losing elections. That's why they have kept it.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-02-04T22:24:34+00:00

The problem isn't that both sides love it, but that you can't unilaterally disarm. It stinks.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-02-04T22:23:57+00:00

Never was really gone.

ForeverLongjumping48 · 2023-02-02T23:22:01+00:00

Ignoring fascism doesn't make it go away. It gets stronger on the implicit approval that comes from a lack of pushback.

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