Dave Scott

Unpacking the legal justification for Trump’s attack on the foundation of U.S. climate regulations The 2009 "endangerment finding" has been used to justify key climate regs. Relying on recent SCOTUS decisions, Trump says the EPA has overstepped its authority.

Not surprising
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Trump is Getting Desperate We're in an extremely dangerous moment

Trump is Getting Desperate
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In a Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding

Sierra Club filed the lawsuit that became Massachusetts vs EPA and led to the endangerment finding. Making climate science denial official US policy is a crime against humanity.

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"For the last time, I didn't know anything about Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia ring, we were just best friends for over a decade and then finally had a falling out when he stole this seventeen-year-old blonde girl from me. I trust that settles it."

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

Corporate polluter CEO in a Reagan-era "Doonesbury" strip: "So what will protect the public? Oh -- here it is! The goodness of our hearts."

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

"What we have here is a form of looting." Nobel economist George Akerlof on 2003 tax cuts.

Same was true of Bush 43

How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork

I can confidently say two things. This is sick, and it will work, if "work" means not spending money on people who will suffer and needlessly die because you didn't.

How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...

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A Piping Plover chick tries to squeeze in. Moms are so patient and amazing.

Is This the Year We Doom Civilization? We may be losing our last, best chance to limit climate change

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And courts go to statutory arguments first.

Not an expert, but I believe that Harvard also has statutory arguments regarding political missue of the IRS.

I was living with my grandmother in a rural Ohio viillage an hour from Kent. One thing I remember is how many good, decent adults there believed that the Guard had been in danger, that protestors were throwing rocks and tear gas cannisters at them. When in fact, those killed were 300 feet away.

Woman kneeling next to a dead Kent State student. A child with napalm-burned flesh running towards a camera. A prisoner executed by a South Vietnames general in a Saigon street. 3 of the definining images of the Vietnam era -- as Susan Sontag wrote, photography changed how we think.

Donald Trump plans to stockpile deep sea critical metals to counter China US drafting order to collect ‘nodules’ from Pacific seabed for minerals used in battery supply chains

Trump wants to grant permits for deep sea mining in international waters, which, of course, don't belong to the U.S.

Exclusive: White House weighs executive order to fast-track deep-sea mining, sources say The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a United Nations-backed review process, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the deliberations.

Not content simply to subvert U.S. environmental rules, Trump now wants to subvert international rules as well and, by fiat, open the oceans to deep sea mining. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree

“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month. They predicted this would be good for air conditioning stocks. Something it would not be good for? Life on Earth. www.eenews.net/articles/big...

Exclusive: White House weighs executive order to fast-track deep-sea mining, sources say The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a United Nations-backed review process, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the deliberations.

In oher news, www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Stating the obvious: these people have no idea what a 3C degrees world means.

The E.P.A. vs. the Environment With the help of the agency, the Trump Administration is doing everything it can to make emissions grow again.

The E.P.A. is planning to rescind a set of Biden-era rules aimed at curbing CO2 emissions. Undoing regulations of any sort is an arduous and time-consuming process. But the agency could squander years on the endeavor.

BREAKING: @campaignlegal.org @ucsusa.bsky.social @jacl-national.bsky.social & Sierra Club have filed a lawsuit challenging Elon Musk and DOGE's unlawful & devastating funding & staffing cuts to the U.S. National Park Service & Forest Service www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

Opinion | The Sweet Spot (Published 2003) Paul Krugman Op-Ed column says Bush administration's tax cuts are phony because government is now borrowing to make up for loss of revenue; says, however, that any Democratic candidate who proposes to...

The Sweet Spot www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/o...
'''What we have here is a form of looting.' So says George Akerlof, a Nobel laureate in economics, of the Bush administration's budget policies -- and he's right." -- Paul Krugman, 2003.

22 years later, it's more dangerous than ever.

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

Law of unintended (but easily foreseen) consequences.
Trump cuts NIH overhead to weaken leading research universities (& own the libs).
Cuts make grants unaffordable for less well endowed programs.
Research become ever more concentrated at the leading centers.
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Nixon tried to impound appropriated funds, leading to Congress passing the Impoundment Act in response. It's a clear violation of Congress's appropriations powers.

Watching history being made turns out to be terrifying.

"Carter was by far the wisest President in seeing the need for an energy revolution away from fossil fuels .... He provided more leadership in protecting America’s landscape than any President since Teddy Roosevelt." -- Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director from 1992 to 2010

I’m not convinced 2025 will be better.

Jimmy Carter was a conservation hero for the ages. By signing ANILCA, "he created or added to 16 wildlife refuges, 13 national parks, 2 national forests, 2 national monuments, and 26 wild and scenic rivers. .... conservation on an unprecedented, ecosystem-sized scale. -- National Park Service

The Fraudulence of “Waste, Fraud and Abuse” History repeats itself, the first time as farce, the second as clown show

Krugman: The Fraudulence of “Waste, Fraud and Abuse” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...