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Our 21st-century President wants to restore our nation's 19th-century dependence on coal. He vowed to put coal miners back to work, even though mining our remaining coal deposits would be much too dangerous and much too costly. And those regulations that prevent coal-fired power plants from releasing mercury and other pollutants into the atmosphere? The Trump administration wants to abolish those regulations. Yeah, those pollutants will cause many thousands of premature deaths every year -- but, goshdarnit, we have to make life easier for all those West Virginia miners who vote Republican.
Trump's EPA to weaken rule limiting coal plant mercury emissions
The Huffington Post, Dec 28 2018 1:40 PM
President Donald Trump's administration announced today that the Environmental Protection Agency is relaxing Obama-era rules preventing coal-fired power plants from releasing mercury and other dangerous pollutants into the air.
The proposed change ― which EPA acting administrator Andrew Wheeler signed on Thursday and will be up for 60 days of public comment before a final ruling goes into effect ― does not outright repeal the 2011 mercury limit regulation but paves the way for doing so. If the change is finalized, the mercury rule could be opened up to clearer legal challenges in court and other clean air regulations may also be put at risk.
The change would also be a financial windfall for the coal industry. The mercury rule costs the coal industry $9.6 billion a year ― making it one of the most expensive regulations ever issued by the EPA. But the proposal reverses a decades-old finding ― reaffirmed twice by the EPA ― that the agency was within its legal grounds to control emissions of power-plant mercury and other dangerous pollutants linked to respiratory illnesses, neurological damage and cancer.
"What has changed now is the administration's attitude towards public health and towards the coal industry," said Ann Weeks, legal director of the nonpartisan Clean Air Task Force. "EPA proposes to disregard many of the important public benefits that result from controlling all the toxic air emissions from this industry."
In 2011, the EPA’s own analysis determined that the rule would prevent up to 11,000 premature deaths, 130,000 asthma attacks and 5,700 hospital visits every year and save taxpayers $90 billion in healthcare costs annually.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b05c88b7001d6e
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"I will shut down the government! I will shut down the government! I will shut down the government! I will shut down the government!" And now: "The government shutdown is the Democrats' fault!" Here is the latest idiotic message from the whiny, petulant, thin-skinned Tweeter-In-Chief who thinks everything is about him and who refuses to abandon his dream of that "big beautiful wall" that he said Mexico would pay for:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I am in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come on over and make a deal on Border Security. From what I hear, they are spending so much time on Presidential Harassment that they have little time left for things like stopping crime and our military!
7:52 AM - Dec 29, 2018
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Our immigrant-hating and Democrat-hating Tweeter-In-Chief is at it again. He has no shame, no humility, no compassion and no sense of decency. By the way, Donald, all these Central and South American migrants said they would apply for asylum -- legally. You just can't get over your obsession with that stupid wall, can you?
Trump blames Democrats for deaths of migrant children on the border
CNN, Dec 29 2018 4:38 PM ET
President Donald Trump today said the deaths of migrant children at the border are "the fault of the Democrats" after two children in the custody of US Customs & Border Protection died in recent weeks. "Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally," Trump wrote on Twitter. "They can't. If we had a Wall, they wouldn't even try!"
An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died on Christmas Eve at the Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico, about 90 miles north of the border crossing in El Paso, Texas. Earlier this month, a 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died after she began vomiting and stopped breathing while in Border Patrol custody.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/29/polit...ats/index.html
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Trump is now the target of yet another investigation. Our immigrant-hating President seems to have no problem with hiring illegal immigrants. At least five illegals worked at his golf club in Bedminster, using fraudulent green cards and fraudulent Social Security numbers. "Crooked Donald! Lock him up!"
New Jersey Attorney General has obtained evidence of possible crimes at Trump's golf club; Mueller, FBI are involved in probe
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...yZTR?ocid=AMZN
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Awww, isn't this sweet? Nothing can ever come between these two BFFs.
Putin sends Trump friendly holiday letter after turbulent year of US-Russia relations
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...AMhw?ocid=AMZN
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On December 11, Trump told Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi that he will be "proud" to shut down the government if he doesn't get $5 billion for his stupid wall. "I won't blame you," he added. Of course he was lying. He blames the Democrats for the shutdown, calling them "obstructionists." Let's see how Trump felt five years ago, shall we?
Trump suggested Obama should be fired for shutdown
RealClear Politics, Dec 28 2018
CNN's Don Lemon criticized President Trump as the US federal government continues to experience a partial shutdown. Lemon called out Trump's hypocrisy, playing tape from 2013 of the businessman telling Fox News that then-President Obama should be "fired" over an impending government shutdown.
"Well, if you say who gets fired, it always has to be the top. I mean, problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. And the President's the leader. And he's got to get everybody in a room. And he’s got to lead," Trump said. "Donald Trump suggesting that President Barack Obama should have been fired for a government shutdown. Priceless," Lemon said.
Video: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...priceless.html
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Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Representative from New York, appeared this morning on ABC-TV's This Week With George Stephanopoulos and criticized Trump for demanding $5 billion from US taxpayers for a wall which Trump had promised Mexico would pay for. "Trump and the Republicans want to waste $5 billion in taxpayer money on an ineffective medieval border wall that is a 5th-century solution to a 21st-century problem," Jeffries said. He also noted that Republicans control the House, the Senate and the Presidency -- so who is to blame for the government shutdown? Republicans, of course. Doy!
Here is the complete transcript of the program:
https://thecalwashingtonpost.com/ind...ey-mcchrystal/
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Only 15? Heck, that's nothing. Trump could easily tell 25 lies a day without even breaking a sweat. He can go for a new world's record in 2019.
A year of unprecedented deception: Trump averaged 15 false claims a day in 2018
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factc...BBAP?ocid=AMZN
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The Secretary of State. The Chief of Staff. The Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs. The head of the EPA. They are among the 20 top officials who left the Trump administration this year. A "smooth-running machine," Trump called the White House. Yeah, right.
Top Trump administration officials who said farewell in 2018
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-tru...-left-in-2018/
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"The shutdown is the Democrats' fault," Trump keeps insisting. Funny thing, though -- the American Federation of Government Employees filed a lawsuit against Trump, not against the Democrats.
Federal union sues Trump administration for making government employees work without pay
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...wn/2454780002/
