Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Making Life Worse, Every Day In Every Way (Cont.)




The Trump regime's assault on our environment continues apace:

The Trump administration plans this week to revoke California’s long-standing right to set stricter air pollution standards for cars and light trucks, the latest step in a broad campaign to undermine Obama-era policies aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change, two senior administration officials said.

The move threatens to set in motion a massive legal battle between California and the federal government, plunge automakers into a prolonged period of uncertainty and create turmoil in the nation’s auto market. [snip]

Already, 13 states and the District of Columbia have vowed to adopt California’s standards if they diverge from the federal government’s, as have several major automakers. California leaders on Tuesday said they will fight any challenge to their autonomy.

“While the White House has abdicated its responsibility to the rest of the world on cutting emissions and fighting global warming, California has stepped up,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said. “It’s a move that could have devastating consequences for our kids’ health and the air we breathe, if California were to roll over. But we will not.”  (our emphasis)
While this reactionary policy undoing decades of progress may be stayed by the courts for now, the assaults won't end until these despicable vandals are kicked out on their asses. 

3 comments:

donnah said...

Well, I'm going to out myself as a geeky fan of the Brady Bunch. I watched it when it was on originally and I still watch it when it's on classic TV. One of the running “jokes” that came up on the show was about the smog in LA. Between smog jokes and also comments about the price of meat, that show reflected a lot of things that were relevant in the 1970's. Sadly, we seem to be going backward, thanks to Trump.

W. Hackwhacker said...

donnah -- it's a re-run we'd rather not watch!

Grung_e_Gene said...

Gives a new meaning to Suck it Libtards...