Time: Trump Admin Looks To Roll Back Safety Regs After Big Chemical Plant Incidents

By William Teach June 1, 2026 – 10:30 am

It’s wild how many times I read a rage-bait headline about a Republican, a bit of the article (3 paragraphs 30 seconds is the Internet rule to get your message out before most move on), and then find out some rather pertinent information

Back-to-Back Chemical Disasters Strike as Trump Seeks to Roll Back Safety Rules

Two major incidents at chemical plants within the past week sent tens of thousands fleeing from their homes in California and left 11 people dead in Washington.

But despite a spate of similar incidents over the last year, the Trump Administration is planning to roll back federal regulations designed to prevent similar disasters. Experts and environmental groups have warned that such a move would make chemical accidents far more common.

Mass evacuations were ordered and a state of emergency declared when a tank containing nearly 7,000 gallons of highly toxic chemical methyl methacrylate became unstable at an aerospace plastics facility in Garden Grove, California, causing it to heat up and risk explosion.

Just as those residents were cleared to return home on Tuesday morning, a 900,000-gallon tank containing a mixture of sodium hydroxide, sodium sulfide, and disodium carbonate, known as “white liquor,” imploded at a paper mill in Longview, Washington. It was one of the deadliest industrial accidents in the U.S. in years, and came not long after safety complaints were filed against Nippon Dynawave in March and May. The state’s labor and industries department said on X that they were about “various violations that weren’t related to chemical process or storage safety.”

So, got that? Orange Man Bad is going to roll back the safety regs for chemical plants which….had incidents with the safety regs in place?

The incidents have drawn fresh scrutiny to plans by the Trump Administration to repeal regulations designed to prevent and investigate catastrophic industrial chemical releases, fires, and explosions.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which is led by Trump appointee Lee Zeldin and oversees the chemical industry, has sought to loosen reforms introduced in 2024 that were designed to “further protect vulnerable communities from chemical accidents, especially those living near facilities in industry sectors with high accident rates.” The 2024 Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention (SCCAP) changes implemented by the Biden Administration included additional safeguards, third-party audits for facilities with prior accidents, and employee participation in facility accident prevention.

The EPA’s revisions would slash these safeguards and propose removing the agency’s rule that facilities should establish a process for employees to report unaddressed hazards. They would also eliminate the requirement for facilities to consider climate-related disasters such as floods when developing emergency plans.

So, despite the Biden admin putting in those rules, the incidents kept happening. The climate scam rules would make zero difference in plant safety, and, there are still plenty of methods to report unaddressed hazards, including through their unions. Removing the rules won’t make a difference in the world, especially when the far let states have plenty of regulations of their own.

An EPA spokesperson said in a statement to TIME that the regulations implemented by the Biden Administration in 2024 “disregarded warnings from national security experts that it would make chemical facilities and other sensitive sites more vulnerable to attack,” and that the Trump EPA’s changes “would preserve every core accident-prevention protection while removing duplicative, contradictory, or unproven requirements, ensuring stronger safety outcomes through clearer and more workable rules.”

The spokesperson said both the California and Washington facilities “are highly regulated and these regulations are largely overseen by the states — not EPA.”
“It’s clear that these far-left activists have no idea how to actually prevent chemical disasters. Nor do they seem to have any grasp about how EPA regulations actually work,” the spokesperson said, referring to criticisms from environmental justice groups.

Huh. Rage-bait headline.

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Whoa: Washington Post Editorial Board Takes Exxon’s Side In Leaving NJ

By William Teach June 1, 2026 – 7:15 am

Was this from an alternate WPEB? Because this is not the kind of thing you usually see

Exxon says goodbye to New Jersey

The only surprising aspect of ExxonMobil relocating its legal domicile from New Jersey to Texas is that it took this long.

The company is headquartered in the Houston area, and three-quarters of Exxon’s U.S. employees are already in Texas, but the firm retained a Garden State incorporation as a vestige of its 19th-century legacy as Standard Oil. No more.

In March, Exxon’s board of directors unanimously recommended relocation to Texas, to take advantage of its friendlier business climate. The proposal passed this week at a shareholder meeting with over 70 percent support.

It isn’t difficult to imagine why Exxon wants to move its legal responsibilities from a state that has tried to sue major oil companies to the country’s hydrocarbon capital. CEO Darren Woods said the relocation would situate the company in a state “with legislators, judges and juries” who “understand our business and our contributions to society.”

They should also stop selling their products to the government of the state of NJ. See how that goes. Too bad it would create way too many issues pulling their refining and storage operations out of NJ and moving them

Not everyone is happy. New York City Comptroller Mark Levine (D) urged Exxon shareholders to vote against the relocation because it would “disenfranchise” them. Proxy advisories Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services claimed it could limit shareholder rights.

In other words, a lot of revenue would be leaving the area, including NYC. Maybe they should have thought of that before going full climalawfare on Exxon and other fossil fuels companies.

Politicians like to blame companies for acting in their self-interest, but that’s the easy way out. If New Jersey and Delaware want to retain companies, let alone attract them, they need to take a hard look at what they’re doing to drive so many away.

They won’t. Their cult and hard left political beliefs will continue to run the states down.

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Senator Spartacus Has “Concerns” Over Guy With Nazi Tattoo Running For Senate As A Democrat

By William Teach June 1, 2026 – 7:00 am

“Concerns”

Cory Booker Has ‘Concerns’ About Platner Revelations in Maine Senate Race

Senator Cory Booker said Sunday that he had “concerns” that the candidacy of Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, could be damaged by recent revelations, including that Mr. Platner exchanged sexual messages with women outside his marriage.

Asked on ABC’s “This Week” if he was worried that Mr. Platner’s messy personal history could hurt Democrats’ chances of winning a potentially critical seat in the battle for Senate control, Mr. Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, said: “Yeah, I have concerns. That guy has questions to answer. And that’s what campaigns are for.”

Look, if this nutjob, Platner, though, Booker is still moonbat, was running as a Republican the NY Times and every other news outlet would be calling for him to end his campaign and for every Republican to disavow him. Ever Democrat would be doing the same. But, see

Mr. Booker added that “so much is riding on Democrats’ taking control of the Senate,” saying that the country needed a check on an “out-of-control president” who he suggested was driving up costs of health care, child care and gas.

And there it is: Democrats wouldn’t care if he was expressing his love of Adolph Hitler, it’s more important for them to win the Senate. There’s really no need to dig deeper into the Times’ article, paragraph three sums it up.

Here’s the Washington Post

The Platner sexting controversy and what it could mean for Democrats
Democrats consider the Maine race crucial to regain the Senate. Platner’s latest controversy, one strategist said, will be “very material.”

The WP spends plenty of time trying to minimize all the revelations. Because they want Dem control of the Senate

There’s plenty more over at Twitchy where Democrats are bending themselves into knots to defend Platner, just like when the Nazi tattoo came to light. Because it’s more about winning than any ethics

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 31, 2026 – 1:45 pm

…is an Evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on some time surfing in D.C.

It’s sundress week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 31, 2026 – 9:01 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the mockingbirds are mocking, and, dang, it’s almost June. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in the Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Wake Up America: Never Let Politicians Decide What Is True: In An Age When Liars Rule, Question Everything
  2. The Right Scoop: GOOD VIDEO – Washington Nationals fire commie director, issue genuine apology and correction
  3. The Red Squirrel Report: This Is Memorial Day In Minneapolis
  4. The Other McCain: Trump Derangement Syndrome: Some Historical Perspective on Political Manias
  5. The Gateway Pundit: California Spending $49 Million in Taxpayer Funds to Give FREE Solar Panels and Refrigerators to Illegal Aliens
  6. Sister Toldjah: How It’s Done: NY Giants QB Defies Haters in Directly Addressing Trump Introduction Nontroversy
  7. Pacific Pundit: And now, it’s monkeypox – Boston sees uptick in cases
  8. Moonbattery: Minimum Wage Wipes Out Jobs in California
  9. Legal Insurrection: San Francisco Unified School District Workshop Labels Teachers as ‘Oppressors’
  10. Jihad Watch: Montreal: Muslim cleric says ‘the most beloved act of Allah is to shed blood’
  11. IOTW Report: Michigan Dem candidate wants to pull the stock trading ladder up behind her
  12. Geller Report: Democratic Candidate Charged with Terroristic Threat After ‘Pulling a Firearm on Government Workers’
  13. Gates Of Vienna: Knife Jihad in Winterthur
  14. Don Surber: Making DC worthy of our greatness
  15. And last, but, not least, Climate Depot has “Microsoft Pauses Its Carbon Indulgence Spending – Microsoft ‘was the carbon removal market’ – Climate activists go bonkers, ‘accuse Microsoft of abandoning its climate commitments’”

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Oh Noes: Trump Squeezing “Immigrants” Out Of Jobs, Healthcare, And Housing

By William Teach May 31, 2026 – 7:00 am

It’s so terrible! And the NY Times is big mad

Trump Squeezes Immigrants by Cutting Them Off From Jobs, Healthcare and Housing

For nearly three decades, Raquel Molina — an immigrant from El Salvador who has a valid Social Security number and permission to work in the United States — swabbed the toilets, wiped down the seats and vacuumed the aisles of airplanes at Boston’s Logan International Airport.

But last summer, Ms. Molina, 65, was abruptly fired from her $19.75-per-hour cleaning job, alongside dozens of other immigrants who have long legally worked at Logan. Her supervisor told her she no longer had clearance to enter secure areas at the airport. The Trump administration had decided that only U.S. citizens, green card holders and others with more permanent forms of residency should be granted access, according to a lawsuit that a labor union filed in federal court.

“I didn’t understand what was going on,” said Ms. Molina, who has been living legally in the United States under Temporary Protected Status, a humanitarian program that shelters people from troubled countries until they can safely return home. “I had worked hard at my job. This news put me in a state of shock.”

“Temporary” doesn’t mean almost 30 years. It means here temporarily then you leave. If you don’t want to go back to El Salvador, you can go elsewhere.

For more than a year, administration officials have sought to pull every bureaucratic lever possible to cut off immigrants — both documented and undocumented — from jobs, medical care, financial services, tax credits and even from enrolling their children in day care. The goal has been to compel immigrants to leave the country, and, in the long run, to eliminate incentives that draw many people to the United States in the first place.

Interestingly, if you are going through the citizenship process you have to prove you can take care of yourself. You don’t have access to government programs. Most on a work or student visa are not eligible, either.

The initiative underscores the president’s ability to reshape immigration policy through executive orders and the vast power of federal regulations while sidestepping Congress. And it shows how the administration has pursued more creative — and lower-profile — tactics after Mr. Trump’s militarized deportation raids into major cities prompted political backlash earlier this year.

Everything the Trump admin is doing is based on previously passed laws by duly elected Congresses. If Congress wanted to do something they could step in and pass laws.

The changes range from structural shifts in the immigration system to small-scale, regulatory tweaks taking away jobs or services from just a few thousand people like Ms. Molina. In her case, the administration no longer considered T.P.S. a form of “authorized residency,” said Justin Long, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, meaning Ms. Molina could not be “given official government credentials and granted unescorted access to secure airport areas.”

The U.S. is not the dumping ground for every sorry sack from around the world. Ms. Molina had a long time to apply for citizenship, or even permanent residency (why the f*** do we have people living in the US getting all the benefits as “permanent residents”?).

The administration’s strategy, along with the threat of arrest and imprisonment, has helped drive many immigrants underground, intimidating them from filing taxes, visiting doctors and even traveling. So far, more than 116,000 people without permanent legal status have voluntarily left the United States, including some through a government self-deportation program, according to internal Department of Homeland Security figures reviewed by The New York Times. Many others are believed to have departed without telling the government.

And boom, there it is: all this drives these people living off the backs of US citizens out of the country. I wonder how many went back to their home countries? And this keeps oh so many from trying to come to the US illegally.

But this year, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services proposed a rule that would effectively prevent people seeking asylum from receiving work permits. The move could be hugely consequential: Over the last fiscal year, more than two million asylum seekers received or renewed their permits, according to federal data.

Darn.

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Is A New Holocene Cool Period Coming?

By William Teach May 30, 2026 – 3:24 pm

Hmm

From the link

Century-scale solar activity patterns mark the onset of the next Little Ice Age cooling period.

Newly published research utilizing historical solar magnetic field phase analysis documents the impact of solar activity on Earth’s temperature.

Cold “Little Ice Age” periods can be reliably linked to Grand Solar Minima (GSM).

For example, during the Maunder Minimum (late 1600s to early 1700s), solar irradiance is thought to have declined by about 3 W/m², and consequently, the Northern Hemisphere cooled by approximately 1°C.

Based on pattern analysis, it may be assumed that the onset of the next GSM has arrived, and global cooling will occur over the next few decades.

It’s interesting, but, will it happen? Remember, we had concerns over a coming Holocene cool period (HCP) when rising temps went flat and even negative from the 50’s thru the late 70’s, and the Holocene warm period returned. We had the Big Pause. Eventually the world will go back to a HCP. That’s the nature of the Holocene period over the last 8,000 years. Cool warm cool warm. Will the world move into a true non-glacial period? Return to a glacial period? Time will tell. I will believe it when I see it, because there have been many times over the last 50 years when solar activity dropped. It’s like the current warming period: it’ll go where it goes. We do not have enough information to compare with previous warm and cool periods.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 30, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on the transformation of Washington, D.C.

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Bus Crashes In Virginia, Mass Casualty Incident

By William Teach May 30, 2026 – 10:30 am

I’m sure the Washington Post will provide relevant information, right?

‘The bus was going really, really fast,’ survivor says of deadly Virginia crash
The accident, involving a bus and six vehicles, was declared a “Mass Casualty Incident” by authorities.

Rhonda Wright was asleep when the bus she was riding crashed into the first vehicle.

“It jolted me awake, and I heard bang, bang, bang. The bus was going really, really fast,” she told The Washington Post.

The bus, en route from New York City to Charlotte, crashed into several more vehicles before finally coming to a halt on the side of Interstate 95 in Stafford County, Virginia, according to authorities. When the bus finally stopped, Wright said the man sitting next to her helped her out of the emergency exit window.

“He saved my life when the smoke started coming,” Wright, 64, said. “I was scared to death to jump. But there was smoke in the bus. I had to go.”

Five people were killed and dozens more were injured Friday in the early-morning “mass casualty” crash, authorities said.

All those killed were in the vehicles hit by the bus, which occurred at 2:35am in a work zone. Let’s go to paragraph 13

The bus driver, identified as Jing S. Dong, 48, was injured in the crash, according to state police. When reached by phone, the driver’s wife said in Mandarin that she did not want to comment on the incident and that she was unsure about the status of her husband’s injuries.

Huh.

Wright said she was on edge throughout the bus ride. “The driver was driving very aggressively throughout the day,” she said.

I wonder why? Paragraph 18

In a statement on X Friday evening, Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Administrator Derek Barrs was at the crash site with investigators working with NTSB. He also said local police said Dong was from China and had become a U.S. citizen and does not speak English. The Post was unable to verify that claim.

“If you can’t be properly trained, read our road signs, or communicate with law enforcement, you have no business driving a bus,” Duffy said. “Our investigators are reviewing New York licensing records, training documentation, and the driver’s history.”

The WP probably made little to no effort to verify the claim. Maybe an email sent out to DHS. How many times are people going to be given jobs when they cannot properly drive or speak English. Speaking English is 100% a requirement for someone who is going through the normal citizenship process unless you are 55 and up, and requires very specific exceptions. Really, you have no business driving if you cannot read or speak English

Duffy’s tweet notes that the local police confirmed he cannot speak English. Also

Our investigators are reviewing New York licensing records, training documentation, and the driver’s history. Any company, trainer, or school that contributed to putting an unqualified driver on the road will face intense scrutiny.

Someone needs to go to jail along with the driver. And in response to Duffy’s tweet

The WP finally mentions that same information deeper into the story. That’s what they so often do: bury the relevant information way down in the article, when people have either given up on the article with the 3 paragraph/30 second rule or speed reading.

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SEC Looks To End Climate Scam Reporting Rule

By William Teach May 30, 2026 – 7:15 am

They need to do it fast, but, do it right, so the wacko cultists can’t easily sue

SEC Moves to Repeal Rule That Requires Companies to Report Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Risk

In the latest action to undo Biden-era regulations on climate change, the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday proposed repealing a rule that requires some public companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions and the risks they face from global warming.

The climate-disclosure rule has been on hold since last year, after the Republican-led commission said it was pausing its legal defense after legal challenges by business groups and Republican state attorneys general.

The SEC said in a statement that it is now moving to rescind the disclosure rules “in their entirety because they exceed the scope of the agency’s statutory authority.” The rules, finalized in 2024, “impose substantial costs on public companies and their shareholders that are not justified by the informational benefits they may provide to some investors,” the commission said.

Eliminating the rule will “avoid the practical effect of dictating corporate behavior” and ensure that agency rules will “be imposed only when the expected benefits justify the likely costs and burdens,” SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said in a statement.

Obviously, this is mean because it’s OK for a Democrat to get rid of all the Bad rules from a Republican, but, not OK in the reverse.

Environmental groups said the action would leave investors without data they need to accurately assess financial risks and other hazards related to climate change.

“The SEC’s mission is to protect investors and the public by ensuring they have access to material information,” said Kathy Fallon, director of land systems at the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force. “While imperfect, the rule was an important step toward giving investors consistent information about financially material climate risks, including the use of carbon offsets.”

Blah blah blah, all for a scam for which they don’t practice what they preach. What benefit is the Clean Air Task Force doing for commerce? They produce nothing.

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