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"Environmental Justice" offices are being eliminated from EPA enforcement efforts, says the New York Times .
The term refers to "a decades-old school of thought" that seeks to graft identitarian politics onto environmental concerns.
Americans welcome efforts to strip racial obsessions from the armory of regulators who already wield too much power.
"Environmental Justice" combines identitarian concerns with hostility to the market system.
It's not just an ideological Trojan horse intruding into a government bureaucracy; it's a hot mess.
The EPA is still an out-of-control bureaucracy that gets in the way of cleaner cars that consumers might actually want to buy.
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A prophetess of the Xhosa tribe in South Africa had a vision telling her that all cattle of the tribe would have to be slaughtered, having been reared by contaminated hands.
In the frenzy that followed, they killed between 300,000 and 400,000 head of cattle.
The resulting famine, the population of the province dropped from 105,000 to fewer than 27,000 .
Viv Forbes is a scientist and pastoralist who has spent a lifetime learning how to raise healthy cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, and pastures.
Viv Forbes : The bureaucracy is forever seeking ways to identify, keep track of, and vaccinate every one of us and our animals.
They love electronic tracking — electronic ear tags are already compulsory for Australian cattle, and from now on, all new sheep and goat offspring must get their electronic tags.
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Nearly 200 environmental groups urge Congress to reject potential industry attempts to obtain immunity from climate lawsuits.
Fossil fuel companies have vied for such a get-out-of-jail-free card for years .
States and municipalities have brought more than 30 lawsuits accusing big oil of intentionally covering up the climate risks of their products.
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Climate crisis is an existential threat to our way of life in Britain , says Ed Miliband .
Climate action at home without pushing larger countries to do their fair share would not protect current and future generations.
China is responsible for more emissions than the US , EU , India and UK , yet I am the first energy secretary since 2017 to visit China .
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Rep. Raúl Grijalva , D-Ariz., died on Thursday morning at age 77 .
Arizona ’s longest-tenured member of Congress was diagnosed with lung cancer last spring .
During his 22-year stint on Capitol Hill he championed environmental protection, public education and reproductive freedom.
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Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) died Thursday after losing his battle with cancer.
He was 77 years old .
His office highlighted his “kind and humble nature” and said he “cared deeply for and was proud of his staff”.
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EPA to reconsider 2009 finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health.
Move comes amid barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plants, cars and waterways.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin calls it the “most consequential day of deregulation in American history’s.
The Trump administration has promised additional environmental rollbacks in the coming weeks . The Energy Dominance Council that the president established last month is looking to eliminate a vast array of regulations in an effort to boost the fossil fuel industry, the interior secretary, Doug Burgum , told the oil and gas conference CeraWeek in Houston on Wednesday . “We will come up with the ways that we can cut red tape,” he said. “We can easily get rid of 20-30 percent of our regulations.” Additional reporting by Dharna Noor .
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A huge stretch of virgin rainforest in Brazil was destroyed to build a four -lane highway to handle expected bigwig traffic at the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Belem .
That’s the equivalent of the annual output of 200 US homes.
John Kerry is notorious for flying private at every possible opportunity, arrogantly insisting it's the only option for “someone like me”.
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Francis Collins is one of the most prominent and influential scientists of our era.
He has done pioneering research in medical genetics and led the Human Genome Project .
What sets him apart from many of his scientific peers, however, is his fervent embrace of religion.
He argues that science and religion are perfectly compatible and even represent complementary ways to discover truths.
The Language of God , by Richard Greene , is published by The New York Reviewer .
Greene argues that religion is a source of truth just as valid as science as science.
He says the book is unconvincing on the fact’ of Jesus ’s resurrection and the “moral truths” that one finds in religion are moral truths’ and falsehoods’.
The author of a new book, The Road to Wisdom , argues that Christianity is true because to him it tells a more appealing story than that proffered by other faiths.
He says religion is not a source of truth and cannot produce reliable facts about nature that can be used to repair a divided populace.
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New EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history.
The changes are not a done deal yet.
The EPA listed regulations it will “reconsider” such as the Obama era regulation on power plants called Clean Power Plan 2.0 .
The Endangerment Finding is considered the holy grail of the climate change religion.