Good News: EPA To Propose Ditching Climate Scam Rules For Power Plants

By William Teach June 11, 2025 – 7:00 am

I’ll say again, I’m no fan of coal. But, until real clean energy can be dependable, affordable, and reliable, we need coal and especially natural gas (and to build nuclear)

EPA to propose rolling back climate rule for power plants Wednesday

The Trump administration will move Wednesday to repeal federal limits on power plant climate pollution, attacking the Biden era’s most ambitious attempt to use regulations to rein in heat-trapping gases from the electric grid, according to six people familiar with the situation.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin will announce the repeal of the power plant carbon dioxide rule along with a separate regulation to curb hazardous air pollution such as mercury during an event at agency headquarters, the people said.

The two repeal proposals are the most important EPA regulatory actions of President Donald Trump’s second term to date. Without offering details, EPA said Tuesday that Zeldin will make a “major policy announcement” at 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Scrapping the Biden-era power plant rule would effectively shelve regulations for the nation’s second-biggest producer of climate pollution — the electricity sector — which accounts for one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gases.

The move will come one day after the executive director of Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council, Jarrod Agen, defended the administration’s focus on coal and natural gas for maintaining the reliability of the electric grid. Speaking at POLITICO’s annual Energy Summit on Tuesday, Agen said Trump is not considering renewable sources such as solar power for the nation’s energy mix, despite those technologies’ support from some GOP lawmakers as well as business leaders such as Elon Musk.

Personally, I’m not a big fan of rolling back mercury rules, but, some say the current regulations are overly strict. Further, really, all of this should have been done by legislation to start with, not regulations. But, Congress likes to abdicate its responsibility on everything to federal agencies.

The rules should be finalized by the end of the year.

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House Passes Bill To End Non-Citizen Voting In D.C.

By William Teach June 11, 2025 – 6:45 am

Really, D.C. never should have had the authority to allow non-citizens to vote in the first place, being the seat of the federal government

House passes Republican-led bills to repeal D.C. laws on noncitizen voting and policing

The Republican-controlled House is poised to pass a trio of bills this week to repeal Washington, D.C., laws on immigration, voting and policing, even as it has yet to restore a painful $1 billion cut to the city’s budget.

The House passed two of the bills Tuesday. One would bar noncitizens from voting in local elections in the nation’s capital, overturning a Washington law that was passed in 2022. It passed 266-148, with 56 Democrats joining Republicans in support.

The other bill would restore collective bargaining rights and a statute of limitations for Washington police officers involved in disciplinary cases. It passed 235-178, with 30 Democrats voting for it and four Republicans voting against it.

Will there be enough Democrats in the Senate to push these through? Will the be down for cutting off the noncitizens voting and treating the police well? The force is already down about 16%, thanks to the anti-police sentiment of Democrats

Then, on Thursday, the House is expected to pass a third bill, the District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act, which would require the Washington government to comply with requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security to share information and detain undocumented immigrants. Under current Washington law, local authorities do not work with federal immigration officials unless they have judicial warrants.

Altogether, the bills represent House Republicans’ attempt to assert authority over deep-blue Washington at a time when the GOP has unified control of the federal government.

Congress is supposed to have control over D.C. government, and the city should not be protecting illegal aliens, being the seat of the federal government, for goodness sakes.

“D.C.’s City Council made radical decisions in our nation’s capital under the Biden-Harris administration, passing local laws that are woefully inconsistent with national standards or constitutional principles,” Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, the chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee who authored the GOP voting bill, told NBC News in a statement.

Of course, a problem here is that Los Federales try and put their hands in way too many cookie jars, instead of dealing with the core mission as defined by the Constitution, particularly Article 1 sections 8 through 10.

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Your Fault: Cheese Is Doomed From Global Boiling

By William Teach June 10, 2025 – 3:04 pm

Have I seen this before? I don’t remember if the climate cult has done this before. This comes from “Science News”, which looks like a cult outlet

Climate change is coming for your cheese

climate cowBy affecting cows’ diets, climate change can affect cheese’s nutritional value and sensory traits such as taste, color and texture. This is true at least for Cantal — a firm, unpasteurized cheese from the Auvergne region in central France, researchers report February 20 in the Journal of Dairy Science.

Cows in this region typically graze on local grass. But as climate change causes more severe droughts, some dairy producers are shifting to other feedstocks for their cows, such as corn, to adapt. “Farmers are looking for feed with better yields than grass or that are more resilient to droughts,” but they also want to know how dietary changes affect their products, says animal scientist Matthieu Bouchon.

For almost five months in 2021, Bouchon and colleagues at France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment tested 40 dairy cows from two different breeds — simulating a drought and supplementing grass with other fodder, largely corn, in varying amounts. (snip)

They found that a corn-based diet did not affect milk yield and even led to an estimated reduction in the greenhouse gas methane coming from cows’ belching. But grass-fed cows’ cheese was richer and more savory than that from cows mostly or exclusively fed corn. Grass-based diets also yielded cheese with more heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids and higher counts of probiotic lactic acid bacteria. The authors suggest that to maintain cheese quality, producers should include fresh vegetation in cows’ fodder when it is based on corn.

So the taste of cheese is doomed. Because there have never been droughts before. Except during the Little Ice Age, which led to a revolution in France. It’s always something.

French producers will possibly need different strategies to fit their environment and cow breeds. But Bouchon is certain of one thing: “If climate change progresses the way it’s going, we’ll feel it in our cheese.”

Yes, because a whopping 1.6F increase in temperatures since 1850 is bad.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 10, 2025 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on Harvard’s $3 billion grant loss.

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WWIII Watch: Now Russia Wants NATO Out Of Baltic Nations To End Ukraine War

By William Teach June 10, 2025 – 10:30 am

Things would have been so much simpler had Biden not been so weak that Russia invaded Ukraine, just like when Russia took Crimea with Biden as Obama’s VP

Russia Won’t End Ukraine War Until NATO ‘Pulls Out’ of Baltics: Moscow

The Ukraine war won’t end until NATO withdraws troops from the Baltics, a top Russian official has warned.

Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister responsible for U.S. relations, nonproliferation and arms control, made the remarks in an interview with state-run news agency Tass.

Newsweek has reached out to the Kremlin and NATO for comment by email.

Ryabkov’s comments mark a shift in the Kremlin’s position. He suggested that the conflict’s roots lie not only in Ukraine itself but in NATO’s eastward expansion. According to Ryabkov, the withdrawal of NATO forces from the Baltics would help bring an end to the war.

NATO maintains a strong military presence in the Baltic States, with multinational battle groups and brigades stationed in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

So, that’s pretty much a “never going to happen.” Can you imagine giving back Poland and Romania, for starters? Will Putin take this position as negotiations are on and off? Slow walking?

Last month, three Russian sources with knowledge of Washington-led negotiations told Reuters that Putin’s conditions for ending the Ukraine war include a written pledge from Western leaders to halt NATO’s eastward expansion.

Complications.

Meanwhile

Zelenskyy demands ‘action from America’ after latest Russian drone, missile attack

At least two people were killed in the Ukrainian city of Odesa overnight into Tuesday morning amid another night of intense nationwide Russian drone and missile strikes. (snip)

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post to social media that Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro and Chernihiv regions were targeted. Russia’s bombardment included at least two North Korean-made ballistic missiles, he added…..

“Action from America, which has the power to force Russia into peace,” he continued. “Action from Europe, which has no alternative but to be strong. Action from others around the world who called for diplomacy and an end to the war — and whom Russia has ignored. There must be strong pressure for the sake of peace.”

Russia attacks, Ukraine responds, and around it goes. Ukraine makes a deep strike against Russia bombers with drones, Russia responds. That’s war. Well, the slow war which is bleeding Ukraine, Russia, the EU, and the US. Here, it sure seems like Zelenskyy wants NATO members to commit direct military action against Russia.

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Bummer: UN Says Oceans Are Dying

By William Teach June 10, 2025 – 7:15 am

But, hey, maybe they can save them as thousands fly into Nice for a nice working vacation

Oceans are dying. Can a UN summit in Nice turn the tide?

From 9 to 13 June, the coastal city of Nice will host the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), a high-level summit co-chaired by France and Costa Rica. Its mission: to confront a deepening ocean emergency that scientists warn is nearing a point of no return.

“The ocean is facing an unprecedented crisis due to climate change, plastic pollution, ecosystem loss, and the overuse of marine resources,” Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, who is also serving as Secretary-General of the event, told UN News.

“We hope the conference will inspire unprecedented ambition, innovative partnerships, and maybe a healthy competition,” he said, highlighting the need for international cooperation to avoid irreversible damage.

The pressure is on. UNOC3 is bringing together world leaders, scientists, activists, and business executives to tackle the growing crisis in the world’s oceans.

The goal is to spark a wave of voluntary pledges, forge new partnerships, and — if organizers succeed — inject a much-needed dose of accountability into the fight against marine degradation.

The thing is, there is some reality to this. There are serious problems with plastic pollution and overuse of marine resources. And straight pollution, though, it is much better than it was 40 years ago. Just leave the whole climate scam out of, though, guys, because you are going to bury all the real problems under the banner of the cult. Leave it out, and we can get most to agree on fixing issues.

And the damage runs deeper still. The ocean continues to absorb more than 90 per cent of excess heat from greenhouse gas emissions — a worldwide service that may be nearing its limits.

“Challenges like plastic pollution, overfishing, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, and warming are all linked to climate change,” Mr. Li warned.

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Huh: Suddenly California Is All About State Sovereignty

By William Teach June 10, 2025 – 7:00 am

Hey, I wonder if we can get Gavin Newsom behind the movement to repeal the 17th Amendment and a return to the 10th Amendment in full?

California says Trump’s deployment of National Guard violates state sovereignty

California is suing to reverse President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles, arguing that the use of the military to suppress immigration protests is an illegal and unconstitutional intrusion on state authority.

Trump’s deployment of as many as 4,000 National Guard troops has sapped the state of crucial emergency resources and came without consultation with Gov. Gavin Newsom, according to the 22-page lawsuit, filed Monday afternoon in federal court in San Francisco.

Though Trump initially declared his intent to send 2,000 troops to L.A., both the lawsuit and Newsom himself suggested he had revealed plans to double that number to 4,000. And just before the lawsuit was filed, Trump ordered 700 Marines to L.A. to support the Guard troops.

The absence of consultation, California’s attorneys say, makes Trump’s deployment unlawful. The lawsuit echoes Newsom’s comments earlier Monday in an interview with POLITICO.

“There was no communication through our office, period, full stop. So, by definition, it’s an illegal act,” Newsom, a Democrat, said, adding that the president failed to meet other key prerequisites for the deployment.

Well, you know that Gavin is going to find a friendly liberal judge to rule in his favor, then it is going to have to go through appeals and such, and, by that time, ICE will have concluded their operations. I wonder, though, where were all these sovereignty folks when Biden was jamming all sorts of restrictions on COVID down our throats? And other things?

A White House spokesperson said the California governor should thank Trump “for restoring law and order.”

“Gavin Newsom should march back to his Attorney General’s office to prosecute the anti-ICE rioters who burned property and looted businesses in Los Angeles. It’s pathetic that Newsom is more focused on saving face than protecting law enforcement and holding criminals accountable,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said.

The best part is that these are Democrats burning and destroying Democrat stuff in a Democrat city.

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Bummer: Federal Cuts May Cause Problems With Maine’s Climate (scam) Efforts

By William Teach June 9, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Maybe states shouldn’t be so darned reliant on Los Federales, eh? (available in full at Yahoo)

Federal cuts may hurt Maine’s ability to meet climate goals, scientists say

Scientists and fishermen are eager to learn more about a sudden cooling in the deep waters of the Gulf of Maine, a new mystery in a body of water as well known in global science circles for its rapid warming as it is among foodies for its lobsters, oysters and scallops.

That will be hard to do under a proposed federal budget that cuts funds for a national ocean monitoring system.

“People are talking (about the cooling). Is this a reset?” asked Susie Arnold, a marine scientist with the Island Institute in Rockland. “Well, what do you use to find that out? You look at the buoys. Those are one of the primary tools that we use to understand oceanography in the Gulf of Maine.”

Arnold was referring to a network of floating research stations that monitor currents, temperature and other data points used by scientists to track changes in the gulf.

She is one of about 40 scientists who advise the Maine Climate Council, the state-appointed commission that develops the state climate action plan, Maine Won’t Wait. The scientists provide the raw science behind the plan, documenting the effects of climate change and projecting future sea level rise and warming.

And these scientists are worried, both about the coming changes in climate and their ability to study them. And they believe recent federal budget and staffing cuts may prevent Maine from achieving its climate goals, including those set in the November update to Maine Won’t Wait but also those already codified in state law.

How about they tax Maine residents who voted for this, let them pay.

Members of the council’s scientific and technical subcommittee, which Arnold co-chairs, met Thursday to talk about writing a new report on both the evolving science, including the Gulf of Maine’s new deep water cooling trend, and the changed political landscape. They decided to write an update to last year’s plan by April.

They cited more than a dozen at-risk or eliminated federally run or funded scientific programs, ranging from an environmental justice screening tool that Maine uses to help identify socially vulnerable communities to coastal zone management grants that help communities prepare and bounce back from climate challenges like flooding.

I’ve been told that elections have consequences. Spend your own money.

Meanwhile

Scientists stunned after detecting unexpected shift in Antarctic Ice Sheet: ‘A historic turnaround’

Scientists have observed an encouraging trend in growth in the Antarctic Ice Sheet but remain cautious about the climate’s future.

A study published in Science China Earth Sciences found that the AIS had a record-breaking gain in mass between 2021 and 2023, most likely due to a pattern of unusual precipitation, per a report from KTVU.

“[The study] found that between 2011 and 2020, the AIS was losing ice at a rate of 142 gigatons per year,” the outlet stated. “But between 2021 and 2023, the trend reversed, with the ice sheet gaining approximately 108 gigatons per year — a historic turnaround.”

Surprisingly, they do not blame this on global heating. I’m sure they will get around to it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 9, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are bushes drying out from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on taking 90 minutes for the cops to show up.

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Now Gavin Newsom Threatens To Sue Trump Admin Over National Guard Deployment

By William Teach June 9, 2025 – 10:30 am

This should be interesting. Will it happen? How will Gavin explain that ICE was doing their job and that Democrats have stated that immigration is a federal issue, and that the citizens of the People’s Republik of California were rioting?

Newsom says California will sue Trump over National Guard, dares Homan to arrest him

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said California will sue the Trump administration on Monday over its deployment of the National Guard to quell Los Angeles protests against federal immigration raids.

In an interview Sunday evening on MSNBC, Newsom said the lawsuit would challenge Trump’s federalizing of the California National Guard without the state’s consent, a move with little precedent in U.S. history.

“Donald Trump has created the conditions you see on your TV tonight. He’s exacerbated the conditions. He’s, you know, lit the proverbial match. He’s putting fuel on this fire, ever since he announced he was taking over the National Guard — an illegal act, an immoral act, an unconstitutional act,” Newsom said on MSNBC.

“And we’re going to test that theory with a lawsuit tomorrow,” he added.

As Gavin looked the other way as Californians…well, many were flying Mexican flags, arrested these people

(Fox News) Rolando Veneracion-Enriquez, 55, of the Philippines, has a criminal history that includes a burglary in Ontario, California, for which he was sentenced to four years in prison, and sexual penetration with a foreign object with force and assault with intent to commit rape in the city of Pomona, for which he was sentenced to 37 years in prison. He was arrested on Saturday and served a notice to appear.

Armando Ordaz, 44, of Mexico, was arrested on Friday. He is an alleged active gang member of Bratz 13 who has a criminal history that includes sexual battery in Los Angeles, landing him a sentence of 135 days in jail and five years probation. He was also sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years probation for receiving known or stolen property in Norwalk and sentenced to 365 days in jail and four years probation for petty theft in Los Angeles.

Delfino Aguilar-Martinez, 51, of Mexico, was arrested on Friday and served a notice to appear. His criminal history includes assault with a deadly weapon with great bodily injury in Los Angeles, and he was sentenced to a year in jail.

Lionel Sanchez-Laguna, 55, of Mexico, was arrested on Tuesday. He has a criminal history in the city of Orange that includes being sentenced to 365 days in jail for discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling and vehicle, being sentenced to four years probation for battery on a spouse or cohabitant, being sentenced to four years probation for willful cruelty to a child, being sentenced to 10 days in jail for driving under the influence, being sentenced to three years behind bars for assault with a semi-automatic firearm and being sentenced to three years behind bars for personal use of a firearm.

Just a smattering

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement to NewsNation that “President Trump rightfully stepped in to restore law and order because of Gavin Newsom’s feckless leadership and his refusal to stop the violent attacks on American law enforcement.”

“It’s a bald-faced lie for Newsom to claim there was no problem in Los Angeles before President Trump got involved,” Jackson added. “Everyone saw the chaos, violence, and lawlessness – unless, of course, Gavin Newsom doesn’t think any of that is a problem.”

We all saw it. There was video. Live video. Did no one show Gavin?

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