Law Professor Says Oregon Can Take Steps As Trump Kills Federal Climate (scam) Action

By William Teach August 6, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Remember back when we were told we should only listen to climate scientists? About taht

Law professor says Oregon can take action if federal climate change regulations go up in smoke

With the Trump administration’s dismantling of environmental regulations and total reversal of policies to combat climate change, activists have filed lawsuits and requests for injunctions all over the country. The latest development is the Trump-led Environmental Protection Agency reversing the long-standing “endangerment finding” that greenhouse gases threatened human health and welfare. One environmental law professor at Harvard called it “an assault on the foundation of all federal climate policy.”

Well, yeah, it is, because the Constitution really didn’t give the Congress the power to do this, hence, the Executive Branch wouldn’t have laws to Do Something. But, it is what it is, hence, what Obama and Biden can put into regulation Trump can kill

Lewis & Clark environmental law professor Melissa Powers says Oregon — and other states — do have options to fight climate change, besides filing individual lawsuits. She says one viable strategy would be for Oregon to create a Climate Superfund. We talk with her about what the unraveling of environmental regulations is likely to mean in Oregon and more about the potential for an Oregon Climate Superfund.

Hmm, notice she fails to say that the Warmists in Oregon can practice what they preach? Give up their own use of fossil fuels, live in tiny homes, don’t use hair dryers and ice makers, only buy second hand clothes, not use plastics, and more? Weird, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 6, 2025 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on the purpose for the raid on Mar-O-Lago.

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Pentagon Slashes Red Tape To Prepare For Drone War

By William Teach August 6, 2025 – 10:30 am

Bureaucrats love bureaucrating. They live for this. Gumming up the works, making people and companies jump through hoops. Making procurement complicated. Even if it blocks the Pentagon from getting what they need to compete

Pentagon seeks to slash red tape for mass drone production

The Trump administration is slashing red tape to quickly equip troops with more small, easily replaced drones in a bid to keep up with the likes of Russia and China, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer told NewsNation’s Kelly Meyer in an exclusive interview.

Emil Michael, the under secretary of Defense for research and engineering, said the U.S. is speedily moving to reduce bureaucratic barriers and expand the quantities and types of drones U.S. troops can use to defend American bases, forces and interests.

“You’ve got to cut the red tape out,” when it comes to drone production, he told Kellie Meyer from The Hill’s sister network. “A lot of the regulations around what you could build and how you could build it, and even how you could test it were limited in the last administration.”

Drones are the new frontline of modern conflicts, featuring prominently in Russia’s war in Ukraine and Israel’s conflicts in the Middle East.

Nowhere were drones displayed so mightily that in June with Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb, where Kyiv spent months smuggling hundreds of small drones deep inside Russia for coordinated strike that destroyed upwards of 40 Russian warplanes on five airbases.

Thankfully that didn’t turn into WWIII. The U.S. needs to be prepared for an attack like that, and the U.S. needs to be able to project that type of force, as well as use a drone swarm for defense

But the United States is currently outpaced by Russia and China in military drone use, a gap caused by a dearth in companies approved to make drones for the U.S. military as well as limited equipment and expertise needed to mass-produce drones, according to a new report released Tuesday by The Heritage Foundation.

Only 14 companies currently can make drones for the Defense Department while just one Chinese company, DJI, accounts for 70 percent of all worldwide drone sales and makes millions of drones each year, putting Washington at a disadvantage. U.S. law bars the military from buying Chinese drones.

So, the Pentagon is going to fast-track building drones for military use, particularly for attack. Small ones. Not the big ones. We do great with the big ones, which are usually under direct control by a pilot in a room far away. I guess we’ll see how this turns out.

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Trump Admin Looks To Claw Back $7 Billion For Low Income Solar

By William Teach August 6, 2025 – 7:00 am

Trump is such a big meanie, he wants to take free energy away from po’ folk

Trump wants to roll back $7 billion in grants for solar projects in low-income communities

The Trump administration is reportedly considering terminating a $7 billion grant program aimed at helping low- and moderate-income families install home solar panels, part of the White House’s larger campaign to claw back billions in Biden-era climate spending.

The Environmental Protection Agency is in the process of drafting termination letters to the 60 state agencies, nonprofit groups, and Native American tribes awarded the funding through the Solar for All initiative, part of the Biden administration’s landmark 2022 climate law.

The agency said Tuesday it has not made a final decision about the grants.

Environmental groups say if Trump does go through with the cancellation, the effort will face legal challenges.

Wiping away the grants would halt many projects before they were complete.

Let’s be honest, most of this money has gone to friendly companies which donate to Democrats, and the low income folks aren’t really going to see any benefits. How many of them actually own the homes?

The first Solar for All projects, efforts to install residential solar and battery storage systems for tribal communities in Montana and South Dakota, went online in October 2024.

“One in five households on reservations lack access to electricity, and this program was an opportunity to close that gap,” Cody Two Bears, the chief executive of Indigenized Energy, told The New York Times, which first reported on the cancellation effort. “But those were just two kickoff projects to show what was coming for the next five years.”

Instead of cancelling the money, how about the EPA audit the companies that got the money? Let’s see how it was spent. Let’s see if the government and homeowners were overcharged, if way too much money was being pocketed by the companies.

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Trump Warns DC Over Violent Youth Gangs, May Federalize D.C.

By William Teach August 6, 2025 – 6:45 am

Here’s a good question: has Congress delegated any power to the Executive Branch to do this? Because Congress has delegated authority for some of the day to day work to local government, but, ultimately, Congress has with plenary legislative authority over the federal district

Trump threatens to federalize DC after ex-DOGE employee ‘Big Balls’ violently beaten

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to federalize Washington, D.C., calling for local minors and gang members over the age of 14 to be prosecuted as adults, after a famed former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee was allegedly beaten in the nation’s capital.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said local youth and gang members are “randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released.”

Along with the post, Trump shared a photo of a bloodied man on the street.

Multiple sources told Fox News Digital the person in the photo shared by the president is Edward Coristine, the teenager known as “Big Balls,” who previously worked for DOGE.

Obviously, Democrats will oppose cracking down on crime. Quite a few of them have their own security and/or live in tony, high class buildings, divorced from the violence.

The president said it appears criminals are “not afraid” of the police, because “nothing ever happens to them.”

“Washington, D.C. must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see,” he wrote in the post. “If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore.”

Consider: The District Of Columbia is rated a 2 by Neighborhood Scout. That means it is safer than 2% of U.S. cities. Meaning it is high crime. You have a 1 in 95 chance of being a violent crime victim, and the 10.47 (per 1,000) rate is over double the national rate of 4. Assault and robbery are off the chain. Property crime is 1 in 24, with a rate 3 times the national rate. Theft and motor vehicle theft are super high.

Look at the map at the link: this is our nation’s capitol. Should any part be beyond a light blue? Let’s not forget that these are Democrat doing the crime, since 90% voted for Kamala.

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‘Climate Change’ Is Coming For Your Potato Chips Or Something

By William Teach August 5, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Now they’re trying to hit people in the comfort foods

The snackdown: We need to talk about chips

It’s a cruel irony: the very snacks we reach for in uncertain times could soon be victims of uncertainty themselves. Snack time might not feel like a climate casualty. But it’s heading that way.

And this isn’t a distant worry. Scientists predict global potato yields could plummet by up to 16% by 2035 if temperatures keep rising. That has far-reaching consequences – not just for profits, but for farms, jobs and the supply chains behind the world’s most popular snack. From Lay’s in New York to Calbee in Tokyo, no brand is insulated.

Japan’s biggest snack producer has issued a red alert. Climate change is threatening the very foundation of its business, warned Calbee CEO Makoto Ehara. “Climate change is now a direct threat to our ability to produce snacks,” he told CNBC recently. A dramatic warning, yes, but one that should rattle the entire industry.

The threat isn’t abstract. It’s about potatoes – one of the world’s most essential crops – now faltering under extreme heat, erratic rainfall and disrupted supply chains. If Calbee’s struggling to keep chips on shelves, other snack brands aren’t far behind.

In reality, 2024 had record potato crops all over the globe.

The risks are far from hypothetical. Calbee has lived through a crisis like this before. Back in 2017, after a series of record-breaking typhoons devastated the Hokkaido potato harvest, the company was forced to temporarily suspend the sale of around a dozen chip varieties.

Disasters happen. Was it global warming that caused the big Irish potato famine? How about the lack of wheat in France, leading to the French Revolution? Anyhow, lots more cult yapping through the middle of the piece, ending with

As climate change hits potato production, consumers may soon see the fallout on their shelves. Here’s what might be coming:

Higher prices: As harvests shrink and imported spuds get pricier, chip prices could start creeping up, especially in countries that rely on foreign supply.

More shortages: Typhoons, droughts and freak weather events could lead to empty shelves – again.

New ingredients: To ease pressure on potatoes, expect to see more chips made from corn, lentils or blended bases.

Shifted sourcing: Brands may start highlighting ‘locally grown’ or ‘climate-resilient’ ingredients as a badge of honor.

More transparency: As supply chains come under strain, expect companies to talk more openly about the climate risks they’re facing and how they’re responding.

Here’s the question: when this doesn’t happen who gets fired?

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 5, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a place flooded by carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Political Hat, with a post Eastern Vs Western Marxism.

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Too Bad: Abbott Orders Arrest Of State Democrats Who Fled

By William Teach August 5, 2025 – 10:30 am

This is great

Woo!

Texas Republicans vote to arrest Democrats blocking redistricting plan

Texas Republicans have voted to track down and arrest dozens of Democratic legislators who have fled the state to block passage of a plan to re-draw electoral boundaries to favour Republicans.

After the vote, Republican Governor Greg Abbott ordered state troopers “to locate, arrest, and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans”.

Abbott has also threatened to charge the absent Democrats with bribery if they raised public money to cover the daily fine they incur for boycotting the chamber.

The redrawn Congressional map would create five more Republican-leaning seats in the US House of Representatives in Washington DC, where Republicans hold a slim majority.

At least two-thirds of the 150-member state legislative body in Texas must be present to proceed with the vote. The quorum became unreachable after more than 50 Democratic lawmakers left the state.

Most of the MIA Democrats flew to Chicago on a fossil fueled airplane, despite many having missives about climate doom on their webpages.

Obviously, the media and other Democrats are incensed over this step, including one of the dumbest members of Congress

Now, I wonder, what happened to get Democrats worked up about the arrest orders?

Oregon Republicans flee, facing fines, state police chasing — Democrats demand they return

Republican state senators in Oregon continued to engage in a high-stakes game of brinksmanship Friday with Democratic lawmakers, saying they are prepared to sue if the Senate president goes through with her threat to impose a $500 fine for each day they delay a vote on a landmark climate plan that would be the second of its kind nationwide.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown deployed the state police Thursday to try to round up 11 Republican senators who fled the Legislature — and in some cases, the state — to thwart the passage of a cap-and-trade proposal that would dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The minority GOP caucus wants the plan to be sent to voters instead of being instituted by lawmakers — but negotiations with Democrats collapsed, leading to the headline-grabbing walkout.

“It’s time for the Senate Republicans to show up and do the job they were elected to do,” Brown, a Democrat, said at a news conference Thursday.

They were also being fined. The media and Democrats were fine with this. Why not now?

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“Scientists” Sorta Maybe Possibly Link Starfish Die-Offs To Climate Doom

By William Teach August 5, 2025 – 7:15 am

Seriously, this is what they call science, and it actually gets published as news

Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Massive Sea Star Die-Offs, and Suspect a Link to Global Warming

After years of scientific sleuthing, a team of West Coast researchers reported that they have identified a particular strain of ocean bacteria that has killed more than 6 billion sea stars since 2013. In a paper published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, they said the die-off was caused by a type of Vibrio bacteria that was previously only known as a pathogen in some shellfish larvae.

Vibrio bacteria are more frequently causing problems in a warming world. The bacteria sometimes cause dangerous infections and intestinal illnesses in humans, including cholera.

The breakthrough finding will help scientists determine possible conservation or adaptation measures in response to the intensifying consequences of the sea star die-off. Sunflower sea stars, which can grow up to 3 feet across and sprout 24 arms, are critical to West Coast kelp ecosystems, where they devour certain types of sea urchins that can eat through the forests of seaweed if the sea stars don’t check their populations.

I mean, I’ll agree that the die-offs are bad. I just wonder, though, if it could possibly have a different cause, or, did they simply say “anthropogenic climate change”?

Human activities are speeding disruptions in many ecosystems and the rapid expansion of the Vibrio-driven sea star die-off shows how the impacts sometimes outpace scientists’ ability to study them.

The sudden spread of the disease caught scientists off guard, and for many years they suspected a viral pathogen, Gehman said. But researchers didn’t have much information about what the ecosystem was like before the outbreak.

“We didn’t know what was normal for the microbes and bacteria and the viruses in these systems,” she said. “When you don’t have a good idea of what used to be there, it’s hard to find what’s new. And that’s part of why we found the wrong thing for a while was because we found a virus and then it turned out to be a normal virus.”

So, they really do not know much, especially a baseline of what is normal.

“It is possible that warmer water temperatures combined with other ecological and evolutionary factors led to this devastating outbreak and die-off,” she wrote in an email, “but we don’t have that evidence definitively yet.”

So, they really do not know much, but, they’re happy to drag ‘climate change’ into it. I wonder though, has this happened in previous warm periods? Or, when the Earth was much, much warmer and the seas much, much higher?

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Visitors From High Overstay Countries Could Be Forced To Pay Up To $15K Bond For Entry

By William Teach August 5, 2025 – 7:00 am

This is a fantastic idea, which is surely going to send Democrats into apoplexy

U.S. to Require Some Foreign Visitors to Pay Bonds of Up to $15,000 for Entry

Addressing what it calls “a clear national security threat,” the Trump administration will require that some foreign visitors pay bonds of up to $15,000 to help ensure they do not overstay their visas, under a State Department trial program announced on Monday.

Foreigners seeking to enter the United States on tourist or business visas from countries with high visa overstay rates will be expected to put down no less than $5,000, the department said in a public notice. Visitors who fail to leave the United States before their visa expires will forfeit their bond; those who comply with their visa requirements will get their money back.

The notice did not specify which countries would be subject to the program, saying only that they would be determined based on visa overstay data collected and published by the Department of Homeland Security.

The move is the Trump administration’s latest in a multifront effort to crack down on illegal immigration after President Trump made the issue the centerpiece of his 2024 campaign.

They should apply this to people on school visas, as well.

Citing Department of Homeland Security data from 2023, the notice said that more than 500,000 people admitted to the United States through air or sea ports of entry most likely remained in the country past the end of their authorized stay.

Like that person hired as a police officer who was way over his visa expiration? You know, who was carrying a department issued handgun and was caught trying to buy?

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