Common Ringlet (Coenonympha tullia)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2019-06-09 _F2A5132aaa
“Alert Virginians!
HB 2333 turns Virginia into a test project for an unproven modular nuclear reactors.
Call and email your Senator and tell them to oppose it.
The VA nuclear energy consortium authority has already been talking about lifting our ban on uranium mining and even suggested we could be a place to recycle the nations nuclear waste.”
“Stanford-led research finds small modular reactors will exacerbate challenges of highly radioactive nuclear waste
Small modular reactors, long touted as the future of nuclear energy, will actually generate more radioactive waste than conventional nuclear power plants, according to research from Stanford and the University of British Columbia.”
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“This dread you’re feeling? And it’s important to call what it is — dread. It is the feeling of civilizational risk, in your gut. The lived experience of it, at a human level. Climate risk, the risk of conflict, radicalization, extremism, lunacy. The instability and chaos all that produces, at both social and economic levels.”
“The Most Important Thing You Can Do in 2023
How Do You Stay Sane and Strong in an Age Like…This?”
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Notorious-celt:
“I’m not saying they’re intentionally trying to shut down small businesses, destroy the middle class, transfer the majority of the wealth to the world’s largest corporations, and divide us with fear and hatred. But if they were, what would they be doing differently?”
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“We were once called savages by those that hide what they have done,…and still do”
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David Sirota:
“Any one calling the White House and asking why nothing is being done about this.
Where’s The Secretary of Transportation?????
In the aftermath of a fiery Ohio train derailment, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s department has not moved to reinstate an Obama-era rail safety rule aimed at expanding the use of better braking technology, even though a former federal safety official recently warned Congress that without the better brakes, “there will be more derailments [and] more releases of hazardous materials.”
Instead, transportation regulators have been considering a rail-industry-backed proposal that could weaken existing brake safety rules.
Most of the nation’s freight trains — including the Norfolk Southern train that derailed in Ohio — continue to rely on a Civil War-era braking system. Norfolk Southern belongs to a lobby group that successfully pressed President Donald Trump to repeal a 2015 rule requiring newer, safer electronic braking systems in some trains transporting hazardous materials, The Lever reported Wednesday.
The Department of Transportation's most recent regulatory agenda — which lists all planned, proposed, and final rules — does not include an ECP brake rule.
When asked if the better braking technology would have reduced the severity of the Ohio accident, Steven Ditmeyer, a former senior official at the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), said, “Yes.””
““There Will Be More Derailments”
Pete Buttigieg’s Transportation Department has not moved to revive an Obama-era safety rule that could help prevent future train accidents and derailments.”
@Davidsirota:
“Question: has @SecretaryPete made any public statement on the train disaster in Ohio?
He’s the head of the department that regulates the rail industry & that’s considering weakening brake safety rules.
Has any reporter been given access to even ask him?”
The Media is part of the corruption problem with American Government:
@andrewperezdc:
“Pete Buggieg was on three Sunday shows last week and didn’t get a single question about the Norfolk Southern derailment in Ohio, because none of those shows covered it all. They all had Pete on to preview Biden’s State of the Union speech instead”
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