Excitable Adam Schiff Introduces Bill To Look At ‘Climate Change’ And Superfund Sites

By William Teach April 24, 2026 – 7:00 am

It’s not like these superfund sites aren’t already environmental messes, no, Schiff for brains wants to drag ‘climate change’ into it, which would waste time and money in cleaning them up

New US Bill to Require EPA to Examine Impact of Climate Change on Superfund Sites

US Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) introduced a bill to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to account for climate change risks, including natural disasters and extreme weather hazards, when managing toxic waste sites.

The legislation, Preparing Superfund for Climate Change Act of 2026, aims to strengthen protections for communities near Superfund sites—polluted locations that contain hazardous toxic waste and other contaminants harmful to public health. In 2018, the Carr Fire in Northern California burned over 300 square miles and swept over the Iron Mountain Mine Superfund site—finding its way into the pipes that convey acid mine drainage and threatening to release toxic chemicals to surrounding communities.

“With the ongoing and ever-worsening climate crisis, we must take strong action to mitigate the climate risks on Superfund sites across California and the country as more and more of these toxic sites become vulnerable to natural disasters. As the EPA manages and plans the cleanup of these sites, they must account for and recognize the impacts of climate change in order to protect the health and well-being of the public,” said Senator Schiff.

US Representatives Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-Mo.-5) and Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.-37) introduced companion legislation in the House.

This will go nowhere, at least as long as Republicans hold the House and Senate. Even if Democrats retake both, Trump will veto the legislation.

“As the climate crisis causes more and more extreme weather, we must ensure our communities have the resources they need to be resilient,” said Congresswoman Kamlager-Dove. “With 15 active EPA Superfund sites across LA County, climate-driven disasters like last year’s LA Fires threaten to upend pollution cleanup efforts that keep our neighbors safe. I’m proud to join Sen. Schiff and Rep. Cleaver in introducing this legislation that would better prepare us for climate disasters and help protect our communities from toxic waste.”

Reports this month from the EPA’s Office of Inspector General found that 100 of the nation’s most contaminated federal Superfund sites are in areas prone to flooding and wildfires. There is a total of 114 Superfund sites in California.

Why is California so polluted? Meanwhile

DeSantis signs bill on Earth Day reversing local climate change action

Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new law on Earth Day that blocks local governments from enacting policies to track how their emissions contribute to climate change.

“Floridians should not be forced to pay for radical climate agendas or identity politics with their hard-earned tax dollars,” DeSantis said.

Good. The law takes effect in July.

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Unsurprising: 4 RINOs Help Dems Keep SAVE Act Out Of Funding Package

By William Teach April 24, 2026 – 6:45 am

Can you imagine this happening if Democrats were trying to get something in their own budget package? Nope. They’d be bribing and cajoling, much like they did with Sinema and Manchin for Biden’s big green bill. How they got Obamacare passed

Republicans fail to attach SAVE America Act to party-line funding package

A cohort of Senate Republicans joined Democrats to sink a late-night attempt to attach a version of voter ID and citizenship verification legislation to the GOP’s bill funding federal immigration enforcement.

Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., all voted against a modified version of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act early Thursday morning.

Their defection came during the Senate’s marathon “vote-a-rama,” where lawmakers could force votes on any number of amendments, regardless of whether they mesh with the underlying budget blueprint.

The amendment’s 48-to-50 failure crystallized what several Republicans had warned for weeks before launching a quasi-floor takeover to debate the SAVE America Act last month — it didn’t have the support among the GOP to pass.

Tillis, who’s out at the end of 2026, used to be reliable, but, went full Squish over the past two years. Collins and Murkowski were expected. McConnell is always a hit or miss.

It appears the proposal was doomed even if Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., launched an oral filibuster to advance the measure with a simple 50-vote majority.

Thune didn’t seem to want to try and get it passed. He seriously could have bribed them to get their votes in the time honored manner of politics, but, no. He’s never pushed it hard despite a vast majority of Republicans wanting it, and a vast majority of Americans.

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Trump Admin Causing Issues At World Bank And G7 Over Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach April 23, 2026 – 3:00 pm

It’s easy to talk about Resistance. Actually doing something?

US pressure puts World Bank’s climate plan at risk

With the World Bank’s key climate policy framework set to expire in June, closed-door negotiations between shareholders and the bank’s management over its successor have stalled, sources familiar with the discussions told Climate Home News.

This throws into doubt the future direction of the world’s largest provider of international climate funding to developing countries. Rajneesh Bhuee, just transition lead at campaigning group Recourse, said that scrapping the bank’s climate targets and markers would be “worrying”.

First introduced in 2021, the Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) has driven an expansion in the World Bank’s funding for emission-cutting projects and support for vulnerable communities dealing with the growing impacts of climate change.

The plan embedded climate considerations across the bank’s lending practices and committed it to directing a defined share of its annual budget – now 45% – to projects with climate benefits.

Sounds like a nice little slush fund full of waste and graft

That trajectory is now under threat. Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the US – the bank’s largest shareholder – has waged an aggressive campaign against its climate commitments.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on last week that the World Bank should abandon its “distortionary” climate finance target, claiming without evidence that it “undermines efforts to reduce poverty and spur economic growth”.

“We welcome the coming expiration of the Climate Change Action Plan, and upon its long-overdue expiration, expect the bank to immediately shift its myopic focus on climate,” he added in the statement issued during the World Bank’s Spring Meeting in Washington DC earlier this month.

Or, the US can stop giving them money.

G7 omits climate change from Paris talks to avoid US clash, France says

A meeting of G7 nations on the environment begins in Paris on Thursday but climate change has been left off the agenda to avoid a row with the United States.

The office of France’s ecology minister Monique Barbut said the two-day meeting would focus on “less contentious issues” in an effort to appease the largest and most powerful G7 member.

“We chose not to address the climate issue head-on … because the United States’ positions on this subject are well known,” the ministry said.

Why was time on complete bullshit?

Barbut’s office said attendees would discuss themes including ocean conservation, biodiversity funding and the transformation of dry areas into desert.

Those are worthy discussion. Real environmental issues which do not require the climate scam as part of the discussion.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 23, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled motorcycle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on the UK bigwigs not seeing Islam as a threat.

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Judge Kills Virginia’s Redistricting Referendum

By William Teach April 23, 2026 – 10:30 am

There were many reasons for it to be killed, starting with it being unconstitutional

You knew that the minute this was passed there would be lawsuits

(Fox News) Virginia Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley ruled Wednesday, one day after the Democrat redistricting referendum passed, that all votes for or against the proposed redistricting amendment were unconstitutional, citing rules that impose certain requirements that the referendum did not meet.

There are a handful of cases making their way through the Virginia court system challenging various aspects of the referendum, including the one Hurley ruled on Wednesday.

“The Tazewell Circuit Court just ruled the referendum unconstitutional. The Judge entered an injunction blocking certification of the election & denied a motion to stay pending appeal. A final order will be entered once drafted, & it will be immediately appealed,” former Republican Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said on X after Hurley’s ruling.

Cuccinelli, who heads the American Principles Project Election Transparency Initiative, indicated Wednesday there are four constitutional challenges to the referendum making their way through the courts, three of which are challenges to the amendment process itself.

The whole process bypassed the actual Virginia Constitution, so, it will be interesting to see what happens when this gets to the Va Supreme Court, and then possibly beyond that to federal courts.

Democrats’ Virginia Gerrymander is GOP’s Sign to Play Hardball

On Tuesday, Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment that will allow Democrats to draw new maps, handing them control of 10 of 11 U.S. House seats in a state that Kamala Harris won by just five points in 2024. The result should be a shock to the senses for Republicans nationwide that it’s time to get serious about redistricting – starting with a push in Florida next week. (big snip)

But while a post-mortem of this specific election is perhaps in order, Republicans’ biggest takeaway should be that Democrats are willing to be as ruthless as necessary – even violate the law – in pursuit of power. Republicans’ only option is to respond with similar determination.

Yeah, well, good luck with that. The vast majority of them have failed to learn this lesson for the better part of this century. They’ve wanted to be comrades and The Adults In The Room, reasonable, all while Democrats have gotten more and more vicious. Republicans “don’t want to play that game.” There are too many who go Squish. They do not learn.

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Climate Cultists Embracing Joy To Fight Doom Or Something

By William Teach April 23, 2026 – 7:15 am

Well, there’s always some outlier, right?

Climate doom and gloom? Try laughing instead. Activists embrace joy in the fight to save Earth

When several different team-building groups shared space at a retreat center in New York’s Hudson Valley, one bunch of people stood out because of their constant laughter — so much that someone from another group eventually asked, “Who are you guys?”

They were activists meeting to figure out how to better fight against worsening climate change, a cause usually associated with failure, sacrifice and doom. (snip)

“I believe that joy is all the more necessary and maybe all the more holy in difficult times,” said Katharine Wilkinson, an activist who led the Hudson Valley seminar that got the other groups’ notice. “Joy is like, how do we take part in the shimmy and the shimmer even as the world lurches?”

People like Wilkinson want to harness happiness to power those fighting to curb the burning of coal, oil and gas and the heat-trapping gases they emit, causing Earth to warm. In a recent speech at American University, Wilkinson called power and joy “a really potent portal to the gifts that we want to offer in this time of immense trouble and yet also immense possibility.”

So, um, exactly how are they doing this?

Emphasizing sacrifice “is counterproductive,” said Zhao, who teamed with Dunn to write the book “Leave the Lights On.”

“Instead of asking people to sacrifice the things that bring them joy, our book is making the exact opposite claim: Do more of the stuff that brings you pleasure but also have a low carbon footprint,” she said.

“We’re actually trying to get people to change their behaviors. And joy is the missing ingredient here,” Zhao said. “All we’re saying is give this a shot.”

Dunn, using biking to work as an example, said, “If we enjoy doing something, it is a lot easier to stick with it.”

I’m not buying it.

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9th Circuit Crushes California’s Mask Ban For ICE

By William Teach April 23, 2026 – 7:00 am

I mean, seriously, one would have thought that all those lawyers in the People’s Republik Of California’s General Assembly would have realized this

Bummer, I was really looking forward to seeing some idiot in California’s state, county, or local law enforcement try and arrest a federal law enforcement agent

That California Ban on Masked ICE Agents Just Got Struck Down

A three-judge panel at the Ninth Circuit just made permanent an injunction that blocks the enforcement of California’s law banning masks on federal agents — basically because a state can’t tell a federal agency what to do.

In a 3-0 ruling, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that California’s law, SB 627, which was co-authored by state Senator Scott Wiener, likely violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, and runs afoul of Supreme Court precedent that prevents states from prosecuting federal agents acting in the course of their duties.

The law, dubbed the No Vigilantes Act, which took effect in January, bans the wearing of masks by law enforcement officers, in the interest of public safety.

The judges said that the state law “purports to override the federal government’s power to determine whether, how, and when to publicly identify its officers.” And they add, “in so doing, it aims to regulate the manner and conditions under which federal agents can enforce federal law.”

Pretty much everyone saw this coming. Not sure why the CA GA bothered, except maybe to whip up their unhinged base.

At the same time, same ruling

Federal court makes stunning ruling on California law forcing ICE agents to wear IDs

A California appeals court has blocked a move by Gov. Gavin Newsom to force ICE agents to wear identification, saying that the state couldn’t regulate actions by the federal government.

The three judge panel in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday agreed with the Trump administration that the California law violated the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause by interfering with federal officers’ duties. It had previously granted a temporary administrative injunction to block the implementation of the law.

Nice try, Gavin.

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Bummer: Climate Doom, Environmental Justice Removed From Portland Area Bridge Plans

By William Teach April 22, 2026 – 3:10 pm

It took them 21 months to build the huge St. John’s Bridge in Portland, starting in 1929. These days it takes longer than that just to figure out what kinds of dumb crap they’re going to consider

Climate change, environmental justice sections removed from Interstate Bridge project final analysis

The arrival of a new presidential administration in 2025 prompted significant changes to the federal environmental review process for the Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) project, including abandoning or downplaying much of the review’s climate change and environmental justice impact analysis, according to a final version of the project’s Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement released last week.

The Environmental Impact Statement is the culmination of the federal review process for infrastructure megaprojects, providing a comprehensive analysis of how a project will affect the surrounding environment and community. It is typically produced in conjunction with agencies such as the Federal Highway Administration, and its release is one of the last steps for a project to win final federal approval.

I’m fine with environmental reviews when they make sense and are realistic, but, they tend to be the very definition of turning the amp up to 11 in practice.

The final IBR document comes in at 944 pages, excluding appendices, making it 16 pages shorter than the draft version released in 2024. The final version is fairly similar to the draft, with some sections expanded and most largely unchanged — but while the climate change and environmental justice chapters totaled over 70 pages in the draft, the final version reduces them to a single paragraph each.

Those paragraphs explain that a series of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump in January 2025 and a subsequent memo from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy directed the federal government to stop considering greenhouse gas emissions and climate analysis in the federal review process.

Good. None of that is necessary, especially the unhinged, political “environmental justice” garbage.

Some of the replacement paragraphs reference a new document called the State Environmental Policy Addendum, which is intended to satisfy the requirements for climate change, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice analyses under Washington and Oregon state law — though it adds that the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transportation Administration “were not involved in the development of the SEPA Addendum” and “did not consider the document in the Final SEIS.”

None of this is necessary to build a bridge. Of course, with or without the crap it will probably take a decade to build the bridge, especially in deep Dem Portland. The lawsuits will surely fly the minute the plan is approved. And when construction is about to start.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 22, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is flooding from carbon pollution driven Extreme Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on lawmakers introducing bill to deport immigrants with extremist ideologies.

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DOJ Charges Southern Poverty Law Center With Fraud, Money Laundering

By William Teach April 22, 2026 – 10:30 am

Oh, and then there’s the whole part about funding extremist groups to create raaaaacism and hate

DOJ Charges Far-Left SPLC with Fraud, Money Laundering, ‘Manufacturing Racism to Justify Its Existence’

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was charged with fraud and money laundering involving “violent extremist groups.”

In a press release from the Office of Public Affairs for the DOJ it was revealed that the SPLC was charged by an Alabama grand jury “with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.”

According to the press release, an indictment says that “starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of individuals who were either associated with violent and extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan”:

According to the indictment starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of individuals who were either associated with violent and extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, or who had infiltrated violent extremist groups at the SPLC’s direction. Unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website.

The SPLC also allegedly “funneled more than $3 million donated funds to individuals who were associated” with groups such as the National Socialist Movement, United Klans of America, and the Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, between 2014 and 2023, according to the press release.

Oh, and how about this

I wonder how many who fomented on January 6th were funded by the SPLC? Let’s check this utterly unbiased BBC article

The SPLC has long had a sour relationship with the Trump administration. In October, the FBI ended its relationship with the group after accusing it of being a “partisan smear machine”.

Some Republicans have also accused the group of unfairly targeting conservative groups such as Turning Point USA, the Family Research Council and Moms for Liberty, as well as individuals aligned with the Trump administration.

We got that high in the article before we got the real details like

It states that the SPLC sent more than $270,000 to a person who helped to plan, and attended, the deadly white nationalist Unite the Right event in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. It does not specify why that person was paid or what type of work they did for the organisation.

It’s an old media trick: bury the details in the article where people will have already moved on. The BBC, like many other news outlets, are making this look like a hit job before discussing the reality.

In a news conference, Blanche said: “The SPLC is a non-profit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups.”

“The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.”

How many made it to that quote, with the 3 paragraphs/30 second rule? The AP finally gets around to the heart of the matter deep in their article

The indictment says the center told donors the money would be used to help dismantle violent extremist groups, but did not disclose that some of the funds would actually be used to pay members of those groups. Some legal experts say it’s an unusual legal approach.

“That’s a new way of going after a charity — I’m somewhat surprised,” said Phil Hackney, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Typically, when a nonprofit group is charged with fraud, it’s because someone is accused of pilfering donated funds to line their own pockets, Hackney said.

But in this case, the government is targeting the method and intent in which a nonprofit used its money, he said.

This should be fun, as more and more information comes to light.

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