Oil companies face a wrongful death suit tied to climate change
NPR: A lawsuit filed in a Washington state court claims oil companies are responsible for the death of a woman in Seattle during a record-breaking heat wave several years ago. Julie Leon, 65, was found unresponsive in her car on June 28, 2021 — the hottest day in Seattle's history. The suit names six oil companies, including ExxonMobil, BP and Chevron, that have allegedly known for decades that burning fossil fuels alters the Earth's atmosphere, resulting in more extreme weather and the "foreseeable loss of human life." -- nordy
Horrible! I cannot understand how people can be so cruel and foolhardy as to ruin the very planet for personal profit.
Wil says, “Hot weather makes you stupid.” But maybe it also makes you mean? Yet, not everyone becomes stupid and mean. So I suppose there’s more than one factor.
Well we went from being the whitest state in the nation to the bluest state in the nation, which is a huge improvement in my view...but DT might not think so.
How Trump’s regulatory rollbacks are increasing costs on Americans
NYT: ... DOGE promotes the purported savings on an “Agency Deregulation Leaderboard,” where it claims that the Trump administration has saved Americans $29.4 billion as a result of reversing regulations in health insurance, bank fees, appliance efficiency standards and other areas.
But many of those regulatory reversals will actually pile more costs on to individual Americans in the form of higher bank fees, electric and water bills, and health insurance payments, according to experts and government analyses. -- nordy
LZ Granderson Syndicated columnist Pushing people into homelessness isn’t the way to revitalize downtowns
The first couple of years of the Reagan administration were rough on most Americans. His 1981 cuts to safety net programs led to an additional 6 million people falling into poverty between 1980 and 1983. Coupled with an unemployment rate of nearly 11% during his first term, Reagan ended up raising taxes more than 10 times during his presidency to try to clean up the mess his 1981 cuts made. ... Here we are nearly four decades later: The country has its highest number of homeless people since tracking began, and House Republicans just voted to cut safety programs. It’s as if those Reagan years taught them nothing about cause and effect. Yes, we have a $36 trillion national debt, and Moody’s just downgraded our credit rating. We have to draw in the purse strings for the sake of our fiscal stability. But it matters where you make the cuts. Creating a scenario that could increase poverty and homelessness is wildly counterproductive. -- nordy
A very colorful bee!
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Oil companies face a wrongful death suit tied to climate change
ReplyDeleteNPR: A lawsuit filed in a Washington state court claims oil companies are responsible for the death of a woman in Seattle during a record-breaking heat wave several years ago.
Julie Leon, 65, was found unresponsive in her car on June 28, 2021 — the hottest day in Seattle's history.
The suit names six oil companies, including ExxonMobil, BP and Chevron, that have allegedly known for decades that burning fossil fuels alters the Earth's atmosphere, resulting in more extreme weather and the "foreseeable loss of human life." -- nordy
I remember that awful day -- 108 degrees. -- nordy
ReplyDeleteHorrible!
DeleteI cannot understand how people can be so cruel and foolhardy as to ruin the very planet for personal profit.
Wil says, “Hot weather makes you stupid.” But maybe it also makes you mean? Yet, not everyone becomes stupid and mean. So I suppose there’s more than one factor.
108? Way up there?
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yep -- nordy
DeleteVermont: Breaking news: Immigration officials detain 10 construction workers in Newport
ReplyDeleteIt feels like Vermont is being targeted because we oppose what this administration is doing.
oh now really listener -- why would they pick on Vermont? Because it's the bluest state in the country? (WA is second) -- nordy
DeleteWell we went from being the whitest state in the nation to the bluest state in the nation, which is a huge improvement in my view...but DT might not think so.
DeleteWe're actually in second place now for whitest state. Pretty ironic, in a way, to also be bluest.
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How Trump’s regulatory rollbacks are increasing costs on Americans
ReplyDeleteNYT: ... DOGE promotes the purported savings on an “Agency Deregulation Leaderboard,” where it claims that the Trump administration has saved Americans $29.4 billion as a result of reversing regulations in health insurance, bank fees, appliance efficiency standards and other areas.
But many of those regulatory reversals will actually pile more costs on to individual Americans in the form of higher bank fees, electric and water bills, and health insurance payments, according to experts and government analyses. -- nordy
LZ Granderson
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Pushing people into homelessness isn’t the way to revitalize downtowns
The first couple of years of the Reagan administration were rough on most Americans. His 1981 cuts to safety net programs led to an additional 6 million people falling into poverty between 1980 and 1983. Coupled with an unemployment rate of nearly 11% during his first term, Reagan ended up raising taxes more than 10 times during his presidency to try to clean up the mess his 1981 cuts made.
... Here we are nearly four decades later: The country has its highest number of homeless people since tracking began, and House Republicans just voted to cut safety programs. It’s as if those Reagan years taught them nothing about cause and effect. Yes, we have a $36 trillion national debt, and Moody’s just downgraded our credit rating. We have to draw in the purse strings for the sake of our fiscal stability. But it matters where you make the cuts. Creating a scenario that could increase poverty and homelessness is wildly counterproductive. -- nordy
Thanks for the great posts, nordy!
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