Trans and LGBTQ rights are not the only things being sent back to the 1950s.
I had a summer job in the late ’60s, and I had to drive into Hartford every morning. As I crossed over Wethersfield Ave on Rt. 5, looking toward Hartford, the Traveler’s Tower was covered in a brown smog. At the stoplights up the turnpike, there would be clouds of smoke out of the tailpipes and the smell of gas and oil.
Rivers catching fire, Love Canal belching toxic chemicals, acid rain — it’s all coming back.
WSFA 12 NewsBy Stetson MillerMarch 12, 2025The Trump administration announced plans on Wednesday to rollback dozens of environmental regulations.Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said that the agency will take 31 “historic actions” in what he called, “the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history.”“EPA will be reconsidering many suffocating rules that restrict nearly every sector of our economy and cost Americans trillions of dollars,” said Zeldin, in a video posted to X.Some of the actions that were outlined in EPA press release included reconsidering rules on pollution at power plants, regulations for the oil and gas industry, wastewater regulations for coal power plants and a set of standards that aim reduce mercury and other hazardous air pollutants in coal plants.
PFAS... you all know about them, the forever chemicals...
The Environmental Protection Agency said it will reconsider drinking water standards for four chemicals that have been linked to a range of illnesses.The Washington PostBy Amudalat AjasaMay 14, 2025The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it plans to rescind and reconsider limits on four “forever chemicals” under a landmark drinking water standard implemented last year by President Joe Biden.The drinking water rules were adopted as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to limit public exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), hazardous chemicals linked to a range of serious illnesses. The original rule covered six common PFAS contaminants, including PFOA, a known human carcinogen, and PFOS, a likely carcinogen.The EPA estimates that more than 158 million Americans are exposed to PFAS through their drinking water.
You know when you spend millions you want something in return.
Houston ChronicleBy James Osborne,July 29, 2025The Trump administration moved Tuesday to roll back an Obama-era finding that greenhouse gas emissions posed a threat to human health, which is essential to federal efforts to crack down on industries like Texas’ oil and gas sector.Speaking on a podcast uploaded Tuesday morning, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin described the move as “driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion.”“Most Americans, we care about the environment. We want clean air land and water,” he said. “Then there are people in the name of climate change willing to bankrupt the country.”[...]Those regulations were meant to reduce fossil fuel consumption over time, with many forecasting that global oil demand would peak before the end of the decade.The oil and gas sector was divided by efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with many smaller companies railing against what they said was the end of an industry and larger companies like Houston-based Exxon Mobil and Chevron in recent years acknowledging the dangers of climate change and attempting to reduce their emissions.
He is taking us back to the 50s!
The proposal to roll back the endangerment finding, which came after a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that climate change posed a danger to public health, is expected to set off a protracted legal battle that will likely take years to resolve.
All hail the mighty dollar!
NPRBy Camila DomonoskeJuly 29, 2025For years the Environmental Protection Agency has pushed carmakers to reduce how much vehicles contribute to climate change.Today the EPA laid out plans to not just weaken those rules, but end them entirely.In 2009, the agency determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are a form of air pollution that the agency can regulate under the Clean Air Act. That's because those gases contribute to climate change, which harms human health.That determination, called the "endangerment finding," underpins major regulations — including strict tailpipe standards for carmakers that envisioned at least half the new cars sold in the U.S. being electric or plug-in hybrids by 2030. The transportation sector is the largest source of direct greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
In another article in the Washington Post, they write...
The American Petroleum Institute, an oil lobby group, said the tailpipe rules would have effectively banned gasoline-powered vehicles and that it hoped to work with the administration on policies to balance affordable transportation with emissions reductions.The endangerment finding has long been a target of libertarians and many conservatives seeking to cut back regulations they see as burdensome.
Welcome to the 1950s! Where Blacks knew their place, gays were persecuted, trans were arrested, and a woman's place was in the kitchen, barefooted and pregnant.
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