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DAVID MARCUS: De facto President Trump's handling of shutdown threat was a masterclass
- By rjs330
- American Politics
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A bunch of leftist scare mongering, written by a leftist writer. The EPA has been over regulating for many years now, going way above and beyond safety measures. Making more and more demands on our manufacturers which make it more and more difficult for us and t are away our manufacturing.Sure, too bad about the air and water, though.
EPA's Endangerment Finding is critical for clean air and the climate. Lee Zeldin and the Trump administration want to repeal it.
Lee Zeldin's proposed Endangerment Finding repeal will make our air dirtier, our energy more expensive, and our planet less healthy. Here's what you need to know.www.lcv.org
EPA is about to lose a major tool that allows it to keep energy costs low and regulate pollution. The pending repeal of EPA’s Endangerment Finding will make our air dirtier, our energy more expensive, and our planet less healthy. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Trump are behind this effort to enrich Big Polluters at our expense....
The Trump administration is exempting dozens of chemical manufacturers, oil refineries, coal plants, medical device sterilizers and other polluters from Clean Air Act rules....The limits are aimed at reducing the releases of toxic chemicals, including those that cause cancer. One rule that the Trump administration is exempting about 50 polluters from would have been expected to reduce cancer risks of people living within 6 miles of a chemical plant by 96 percent.The Trump administration touted its decision as being supportive of fossil fuels and manufacturing....
- One proclamation exempts about 40 medical device sterilizing plants from requirements to reduce 90 percent of their emissions of cancer-causing ethylene oxide.
- Another exempts more than 50 chemical manufacturers and oil refineries from requirements to cut emissions of toxic chemicals including ethylene oxide and another cancer-linked chemical called chloroprene.
- A third proclamation exempts eight producers of taconite iron ore, which is used to make steel, from requirements to reduce mercury emissions by about 33 percent. Fetal exposure to mercury is linked to brain and nervous system damage.
- The fourth proclamation exempts six coal plants from restrictions on releases of mercury, nickel, arsenic and lead. The Biden-era rule in question was expected to reduce exposure to substances that can cause developmental delays in children, as well as heart attacks and cancer.
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Andromeda
- By sjastro
- Physical & Life Sciences
- 116 Replies
I recently saw the movie Interstellar directed by Christopher Nolan.
There must have been a considerable science input such as the Tesseract which is a 4D cube.
Doing some research I found the science advisor was none other than the Nobel Prize winner in Physics Kip Thorne who wrote a book on the film.
Kip Thorne is also an expert on the subject of wormholes having made major contributions to the theory when it was first proposed by Flamm in 1916.
According to the theory advanced by physicists such as Thorne if positive energy in the form of matter and photons contacts a wormhole it will collapse. Therefore light cannot travel through wormholes unless exotic matter in the form of negative energy is introduced to keep the wormhole open.
As I mentioned previously wormholes only work in Hollywood, exotic matter keeping wormholes open is in the realm of science fiction.
There must have been a considerable science input such as the Tesseract which is a 4D cube.
As I mentioned previously wormholes only work in Hollywood, exotic matter keeping wormholes open is in the realm of science fiction.
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Dozens of OB-GYNs fled Idaho after its abortion ban. Medicaid cuts could make access to care even worse.
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Dozens of OB-GYNs fled Idaho after its abortion ban. Medicaid cuts could make access to care even worse.
The state has lost over a third of its OB-GYNs -- 94 of 268 -- since the ban was enacted in 2022, according to a new study in medical journal JAMA Network Open.[A year ago, they had 'only' lost 22% of them.]
After Bonner General closed its obstetric services, Kootenai Health, located an hour south, inherited its patients, which included residents across the northern tip of the state. Some women now have to drive two to three hours to get prenatal care or to deliver at Kootenai, according to one of its OB-GYNs, Dr. Brenna McCrummen.
"There have been patients that have delivered on the side of the road because they're not able to get to the hospital in time. There have been babies that have gone to the NICU who didn't do as well as they probably would have had they not had to travel long distances," she told ABC News.
More than 350,000 of the state's residents are insured by Medicaid, including those covered by the expansion plan voters approved through a ballot measure in 2018.
Under the federal changes, the state could lose $3 billion in funding over the next decade and 37,000 residents could lose coverage, according to analysis by KFF.
In Idaho, Medicaid covers around a third of births, according to data from March of Dimes.
"The worry is that as these changes are happening in the Medicaid space, it's going to be harder, particularly for rural hospitals, to maintain those obstetric services, and if they discontinue those, we've got more maternity care deserts, and we've got a greater risk of both moms and babies having worse outcomes," Warren said.
"If patients don't have access to insurance and they don't have access to Medicaid, sometimes they delay prenatal care, we don't catch complications early enough, and it puts the baby and the mother's lives at risk," Klingler, who works in a small mountain town in central Idaho, told ABC News.
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Meanwhile, Idaho has also turned a blind eye to maternal mortality rates.
Shooting the Messenger: Maternal Mortality Boards Under Threat in Some States with Abortion Restrictions
From the "Cases Will Go Down If We Stop Testing" files: The first shoe to drop was in Idaho in 2023, where the state agency that investigates deaths of pregnant women was simply eliminated, despite running at no cost to the state. This came amid a backdrop that includes not just the state's...www.christianforums.com
Trump says ending Ukraine-Russia war could help him get to Heaven
- By Yarddog
- Current News & Events (Articles Required)
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I didn't know Trump was a Buddhist.70,000 Cambodian Monks do
70,000 Cambodian Buddhist Monks Rally Behind Trump's Nobel Peace Prize Nomination Following Historic Thailand-Cambodia Ceasefire - PRAI NEWS
In an unprecedented show of spiritual and political unity, 70,000 Cambodian Buddhist monks have publicly endorsed Prime Minister Hun Manet's nomination of President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, crediting Trump's diplomatic intervention with preventing a catastrophic war between...news.prai.co
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Soros-Backed Group, Beto O’Rourke PAC Pick Up Tab For Texas Democrats’ Gerrymandering Stunt
- By Pommer
- American Politics
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And now…off to the courts!Looks like we now have the redrawn districts in Texas.
BREAKING: Texas Redistricting Map Passes House — Republicans Poised to Gain Five More U.S. House Seats | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft
On Wednesday, the Texas House of Representatives approved a redistricting plan that hands five additional U.S.www.thegatewaypundit.com
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