In the hot, hazy, smoggy summer of 1988, George H. W. Bush declared it “the year the Earth spoke back” and pledged to use the White House effect to fight the greenhouse effect. The Earth is screaming again this summer, but Donald Trump is using the White House effect to make it *worse*.

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Good news! A major U.S. federal court just rejected the EPA’s attempt to roll back Biden-era limits on deadly soot pollution. This is a vital win in the midst of the Trump administration’s relentless attacks on clean air.

BREAKING: In our case, blocking the slush fund, the Trump admin has refused to say under oath the fund is not moving forward, even after the court gave them a week to do this. We aren’t surprised. We already blocked this fund and will aggressively pursue the next steps in the case.

America’s doctors just voted for war with RFK Jr. The American Medical Association has sought a working relationship with the health secretary. Members saw moral compromise. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

DOE Secretary Cringe

"Flights from the 1,300 airports included in the Airport Tracker generated 1,022 billion tonnes of CO2 in 2023, which would make aviation the 5th largest emitter if it were a country." Aviation and SUVs alone would be top-ten emitters as countries. www.transportenvironment.org/articles/dub...

Trump and his EPA head Lee Zeldin say the quiet part aloud, admit to war on environment.

A new report from Northstar Policy Action said claimed Operation Metro Surge cost Minnesota 4,600 jobs, 3.8 million working hours and $71 million in lost wages over three months.

In rural #Florida, the anti-data center movement gathers strength www.tampabay.com/news/environ... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

No joke, it would be cheaper to pay every coal miner $5m every year to not mine coal. There are only 40,000 coal miners, while the coal industry produces >$500 billion in external costs every year, including by routinely burning coal just to burn it despite it costing more ("uneconomic dispatch").

Too many state legislatures conspire with franchised auto dealers to protect an antiquated car dealerships model that Americans hate and that could not compete against direct-to-consumer-sales competitors in markets that are not rigged.

No matter what do you think of his craziness, did you ever think you’d see any president post about a CO2 emissions scenario?

Brain drain at DOJ strains defense of Trump EPA regs. “Understanding what EPA has done over the decades, and why, can be very important in defending EPA," said a former lead environment attorney at the Justice Department. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... ($)

As Coal Rebounds, More Toxic Mercury Is in the Air www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/c...

Reciprocating internal combustion diesel engines are probably the dirtiest, most expensive way of generating electricity. They’re used in moments of absolute peak electricity demand and usually require special environmental waivers because they produce so much local pollution. For 1 of them.

The story here is that Congress rejected Trump’s proposal to slash funding for the National Science Foundation, but Trump is gutting the agency anyway. The by-now classic Russ Vought play of treating Congress as an irrelevancy. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

This is an object lesson in responding to inflammatory questions with a precise, respectful question, then letting the original questioner flounder.

NRDC Launches “Microplastics Are Micromonsters” to Combat Growing Human Health Threat. New national campaign offers practical guidance to reduce everyday exposure to microplastics. www.nrdc.org/press-releas...

Thread. The Trump administration’s air-pollution-truther garbage is hostile to human life on a scale not unlike its willful destruction of USAID and its efforts to undermine vaccinations

Each part of this Trump EPA statement about deadly soot pollution is a lie or reckless or both. ctmirror.org/2026/04/21/t... The harmful impacts PM2.5 & ozone emissions have on human health are among the best established realities in human health science. Trump's EPA is "still considering" them. 1/

Trump’s EPA is rolling back limits on air pollution radically. Breathing polluted air significantly increases the risk of developing & dying from multiple cancers—including liver & breast cancer—according to a new report calling for stricter air quality standards. www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

The Trump EPA wants to deregulate these heavy polluters to let them emit unlimited amounts of hazardous air pollution under the Clean Air Act that causes cancer, brain damage, infertility & birth defects. insideclimatenews.org/news/2004202...

Oil companies are making windfall profits of $30 million EVERY HOUR because of the Iran war... and now the Energy Secretary's oil company reports paying NO TAXES! subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Silly rabids, this administration's agenda is to govern more, not less--more authoritarian, more punitive v. political enemies, more to enrich favored parties. "Trump’s regulatory streamlining has not actually translated into governing less,” the Competitive Enterprise Institute report says.

Six minutes apart!

“Sold Out” is, unintentionally, an excellent description of Lee Zeldin.

Trump's EPA head, Lee Zeldin, will be the keynote speaker today at the conference of an extreme right-wing climate denier group that has compared leading climate change scientists to Nazis, Osama bin Laden & the Unabomber. climateconference.heartland.org This is how far the U.S. & EPA have fallen.

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Trump may be thinking I need to replace them now before the Senate flips in November. But confirmation hearings before the midterms may be no picnic either. Zeldin, for example, will be grilled on his mayhem at EPA. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Imagine going before the Supreme Court to attack birthright citizenship and being unable to say Native Americans are American citizens. This was never about the Constitution. It’s about exclusion.

in the barbershop waiting for my son to get his haircut and the convo this morning is all about why you should drive an EV

This offers a more compelling explanation for why an unqualified, hostile Lee Zeldin was given the job of demolition crew foreman at the Trump EPA. How Jack Smith connected the dots between GOP lawmakers, Trump aides in 2020 election probe. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

<<can’t breathe>>

Isaac Chotiner: What Kushner and Witkoff have reportedly put on the table is almost a mirror image of Mike Pompeo’s twelve demands in Trump’s first term in office. And these are basically Israeli demands. So I don’t think Trump is acting independently here. These are a set of demands that have been

Trump welcomes personal blame for airport delays. Trump rejects off-ramp to fund DHS as airport delays worsen. Under proposal, Republicans would offer to reopen all of DHS except ICE, & fund the controversial enforcement agency under a separate party-line bill. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Chris Christie: "To say what the president said about Bob Mueller just shows you how completely self-consumed he is. It comes from his own sense that the only thing that matters in the world is him. That's what a child does."

The difference between a POS posing as a president, and an ACTUAL president.

As I was saying, par for the course.

The president of the United States, folks.😕 Surely all who condemned the Charlie Kirk reaction will condemn Trump for this. Right? (cc: @MarshaBlackburn ) Our kids are watching.

Real President vs. Temu President.

Remember this when certain state funerals are planned in the future and people get their knickers tied in a bunch because people aren’t sufficiently grieving, and call for them to lose jobs and such.

Class versus

Every Accusation is a Confession….

White House: it’s outrageous for critics to claim that Trump uses ICE like his private militia, where they have no legal authority or jurisdiction. Trump: Trump threatens to deploy ICE to airports as TSA shortages drive delays. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

“If you look at total core inflation, it’s about 3 percent. And some big chunk of that, between a half and three quarters, is actually tariffs,” Powell said at a Wednesday press conference. newrepublic.com/post/207951/...

In case anyone forgot how incoherent this administration’s policies are… we just removed sanctions on a nation we’re actively at war with. Oh well, at least the cowards in the GOP will have to spend the weekend trying to explain how this won’t fund the war for Iran (it will).