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Distracted By Climate Change? Former Trump Transportation Official Weighs in on Bridge Collapse

Former Trump administration U.S. Dept of Transportation General Counsel & acting Deputy Secretary of Transportation Steve Bradbury: “Some of these agencies, their attention has been diverted to some extent to other policy goals like climate change, like social justice, equity, and that goes for the Coast Guard. It goes for the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, Secretary Pete Buttigieg, etc.

International organizations are involved here too, and they are focused on climate change. It really makes you wonder whether some of these disasters at some point might be affected by that shift in focus, that shift in prioritization. Again, safety and security of infrastructure, that needs to be mission No. 1 and No. 2. … That’s top priority for Department of Transportation, Department of Homeland Security, etc.”

Floating Offshore Wind Projects Will Squander Hundreds of Billions of Dollars – ‘Will be the biggest waste of money ever imposed on the backs of working Californians’

Floating Offshore Wind Projects Will Squander Hundreds of Billions of Dollars By Edward Ring In December 2022, after years of planning, the U.S. Dept. of the Interior sold rights to develop offshore wind in five lease areas off the California coast. Five companies submitted successful bids, paying a total of $757 million for development rights. These leases […]

Baltimore bridge collapse will block coal exports from U.S.’s 2nd-largest coal-exporting port

Via Nexus news:  https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/20240327-private-fossil-lending-key-bridge-collapse-sunrise-wind Baltimore Bridge Collapse Will Block Coal Exports: The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge Tuesday could block as much as 2.5 million tons of coal exports from the country’s second-largest coal-exporting port over up to six weeks, but the disruption will have little impact on global prices. Most of the coal […]

Whale of a lawsuit threatens to swallow up Biden green energy agenda – Lawsuit Asserts VA Virginia Offshore Wind project would threaten the North Atlantic right whale

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/whale-lawsuit-threatens-swallow-up-biden-green-energy-agenda By Fred Lucas Fox News A federal lawsuit pits green energy against saving endangered whales, as three conservative groups are suing the Biden administration to stop what they say would be the largest wind energy project in the world. The Virginia Offshore Wind project could cause significant harm to the North Atlantic right whale, according to the 61-page complaint in […]

New Book claims ‘the climate crisis is physically changing our brains—without us realizing it’ – THE WEIGHT OF NATURE by neuroscientist-turned-environmental journalist

https://randomhouse.app.box.com/s/phuwz95j595kdclnbk6uli4l29m8ssso December 2023 Dear Editor/Producer, In August 2020, I was in the Bay Area when the skies turned orange from the August Complex—the largest wildfire in California’s history, started by lightning from a stray thunderstorm that sparked in the draught-ridden mountains. The experience was horrifying, mesmerizing, and haunting—I am now intrinsically fearful every time I […]

2023 Pew poll: 63% of U.S. adults say they are not likely or ‘do not plan’ to purchase an EV

Via Pew: “Half of U.S. adults say they are not too or not at all likely to consider purchasing an EV, while another 13% say they do not plan to purchase a vehicle.”

A bar chart showing that Democrats, younger adults and urban residents are more open to purchasing an electric vehicle.

Gallup poll in 2023 showed similar results, with only about 12 percent saying they are considering buying one, 43 percent saying they might consider it and 41 percent saying unequivocally they would not buy an electric vehicle. Gallup poll – APRIL 12, 2023:

Farmers on Tractors halt EU Green New Deal! AP: EU fails to advance major climate bill – Plan to ‘fight climate change was indefinitely postponed’ due to ‘farmers’ protests sweeping the continent’

https://apnews.com/article/eu-climate-nature-protection-farmers-protests-7b222f346d4898e32766b230da781385 A major European nature protection plan stumbles at the final hurdle. ‘How could we give that up?’ BY RAF CASERT Updated 12:54 PM EDT, March 25, 2024 BRUSSELS (AP) — A major European Union plan to better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc and fight climate change was indefinitely postponed Monday, underscoring how farmers’ protests sweeping the […]

Biden to further gut U.S. manufacturing! Dept of Energy Divvies Up $6 Billion To Boost ‘Industrial Decarbonization’ – $6 billion in new funding to help ‘decarbonize’ U.S. manufacturing sectors

We're saved! Simply by gutting what's left of the US industrial and manufacturing base we can save the planet! DOE Divvies Up $6 Billion To Boost 'Industrial Decarbonization' –The Biden administration, Monday morning, announced $6 billion in new funding to help decarbonize the… — Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) March 25, 2024