This is not making us great again? This is taking away our ability to predict and prepare for Climate Crisis. Another dumb idea, brought to you be Trump and hopefully not supported by TRUMPSGOP. http://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/climate/noaa-research-budget-cuts.html
First, Trump has flood the Zone with mass layoffs, closed consumer protective agencies and now he wants to illegally tamper with our State energy policies? Follow the science, coal is bad for individual and global health. Old decommissioned coal mines are a perfect intermediary to power energy efficient grids. No technology was paid for the … More TheVoiceOfJoyce Next? Trump attacks States Energy policies?
Why do you think Congress created Agencies? They’re the regulatory body that protects workers from management abuse and injuries. Under the Trump/Musk partnership the Agencies are being dismantled. No statistics are being collected by the USDA, allowing more worker injuries. There are no complaints either. Otherwise, workers on Visas are sent home. Is this the … More TheVoiceOfJoyce Worker safety at risk at Poultry Processing Plants.
Why roll back regulations that save people’s lives? Emissions are known to cause pollution, cancer, asthma and EPA wants to roll back Regs that don’t cap emissions, let coal plants burn, don’t care about factory emissions and generally encourage a dirty use of fossil fuels. The Inflation Reduction Act provided for the building of clean … More TheVoiceOfJoyce EPA set to roll back Regulations that cost $40 B and save $254 B in healthcare costs.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/10/sea-level-rise-climate-crisis-miami-new-orleans That “burst”, more than double the global average of 0.17in (0.44cm) per year, is fueling ever more powerful cyclones, including Hurricane Ian, which struck Florida in September and caused more than $113bn of damage – the state’s costliest natural disaster and the third most expensive storm in US history, according to the National Oceanic … More AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce Where’s the urgency to develop & install alternative energy and stop global warming and coastal erosion? The technology exists. Decommissioned coal plants have the energy interfaces to support wind and solar power for grid integration. Miniature nuclear power plants can be safely installed and changing our methods of farming can all contribute to decreased carbon and methane emissions. Three Federal programs dispersed funds to States for renewable energy, employ more people and implement sustainable energy projects, now!
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/11/epa-plastic-based-fuel-cancer-risk-approval-questions The new scrutiny is in response to an earlier investigation by ProPublica and the Guardian that revealed the EPA approved the new chemicals even though its own scientists calculated that pollution from production of one of the plastic-based fuels was so toxic that one in four people exposed to it over their lifetime would … More AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce EPA being sued over granting a permit to Chevron to produce fuel from plastic waste. The rate of cancer would increase dramatically in any community exposed to the refinery process. EPA continues to recommend processes and chemicals that are Fossil Fuel based or contain PFAS, a known toxin that is unnecessarily added to clothing and fabric. When will the EPA stop harming citizens and ban products and processes containing toxins? Lawsuits and protests reverse ingrained policy decisions.
Moderna seeking to roll out vaccines for cancer, heart disease by end of decade https://www.timesofisrael.com/moderna-seeking-to-roll-out-vaccines-for-cancer-heart-disease-by-end-of-decade/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/03/walgreens-abortion-pills-pressure-conservative-states Abortion pills are a critical part of reproductive care nationwide. Of all US abortions, more than half are now with pills rather than with a procedure, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. But medication abortion has drawn increasing attention since the supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v … More AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce If the people were polled, over 60% would vote in favor of easy access to an abortion. Mifepristone is used safely, in conjunction with misoprostol, to terminate pregnancies up to 10 weeks. It was developed in France in the 1980’s (RU 486) and is used extensively throughout Great Britain and the EU today. Why are State’s attorneys general interfering in Women’s Reproductive Health? Why is a women’s health legislated by a politician, rather then her physician?
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/02/co2-emissions-may-be-starting-to-plateau-global-energy-watchdog-iea CO2 from energy – by far the biggest source of emissions – increased by less than 1% in 2022. This was despite the turmoil in energy the markets caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The rise is smaller than the 6% increase in emissions from energy recorded by the IEA in 2021, a leap … More AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce Surprising good new. The total Carbon Emissions increased less then 1% even with the war in Ukraine. However, we need a 7% reduction in emissions to halve emissions for the decade. There has been major investments in renewables, heat pumps and EV’s. Our warming planet, also cut down the need for Fossil fuel energy. Let’s keep up our investment in sustainable energy. Why not intersperse Solar panels in agriculture and create a cooler wetter environment for crops to grow? Many Europeans are employing these sustainable methods.