"#Florida’s Department of Education has approved the classroom use of material from the Prager University Foundation, a conservative group that produces videos that distort science, history, gender and other topics.
Education experts call the videos dangerous #propaganda.
#PragerU’s videos use talking points from #FossilFuel companies to frame #climate science and policy. Many of the videos attack #RenewableEnergy sources such as solar and wind."
“But what is bad about our indoctrination?” says #PragerU about these videos.
"PragerU has produced anti-#climate policy videos since shortly after it began in 2009. The Prager foundation has received millions of dollars from the billionaire brothers, Farris and Dan Wilks of Texas, who made their fortune in #fracking.
PragerU has received additional funding from foundations that oppose climate regulations such as the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation."
By Taylor Giorno and Jimmy Cloutier, May 12, 2023 5:35 pm
"The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a new proposal Thursday to cut #GreenhouseGas emissions from thousands of power plants burning coal or #NaturalGas two of the top sources of electricity across the United States. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), criticizing the 'radical' proposal, issued his own scorched earth ultimatum on Wednesday ahead of the announcement.
"Manchin, chair of the #SenateEnergyCommittee and the top recipient of contributions from the #OilAndGas industry during the 2022 election cycle, vowed Wednesday to oppose every one of President Joe Biden’s nominees for the EPA 'until they halt their government overreach.'
"'This Administration is determined to advance its radical climate agenda and has made it clear they are hellbent on doing everything in their power to regulate coal and gas-fueled power plants out of existence, no matter the cost to energy security and reliability,' Manchin wrote in a statement released Wednesday.
"What #Manchin did not disclose in his statement, however, is that the #EPA proposal would jeopardize one #WestVirginia#coal facility that’s particularly lucrative for Manchin’s family business, #Enersystems Inc., POLITICO reported. Enersystems delivers waste coal to the Grant Town power plant, which was reportedly already struggling financially, troubles that are expected to deepen with the strict new climate proposal.
"Manchin personally received $537,000 from Enersystems last year, according to POLITICO’s analysis of personal financial disclosures filed with the U.S. Senate, and he has been paid more than $5 million by the company since he was first elected in 2010. His son, Joe Manchin IV, now runs Enersystems. The Senator’s campaign has also benefited from political contributions from Enersystems, OpenSecrets reported last year."
"Woods pointed out in his comments that his company and others are able to recover only about 10% of the available oil and gas in the ground with the initial frac job on each well, leaving the vast preponderance of the production still trapped in the rock. So there is no doubt the desired additional production is technically available if effective recovery techniques can be developed."
"I'm deeply concerned at the sense of this country being disposable … This country is not disposable. And we need to be a little more aware, and more cognisant, of what our grandchildren are set to inherit. I don't think they're going to be terribly impressed with our passivity around environmental #destruction." Debra Dank
Global heating will drive billions of people out of the “climate niche” in which humanity has flourished for millennia. The costs and #inequities of #ClimateChange.
Mir geht gerade so durch den Kopf: #fracking ist die Behördliche Genehmigung, #Sondermüll in den Boden pumpen zu dürfen.
(Halte ich für wichtig, daher bitte Teilen.)
"Proposition K, known as the “climate charter,” has provoked fierce resistance and doomsday projections from business interests, spawning a bitter fight with local climate activists.
The proposition calls on the city of #ElPaso to reorganize its employees, create a new #climate department and rethink local policy at all levels to cut greenhouse gas #emissions and put the entire community on a path to an “environmentally sustainable future.” "
The big #FossilFuel boys swoop in and appropriate municipal #water - in an arid place like #ElPaso - for their #fracking purposes, leaving the town to grapple with the health consequences.