behind Texas, in carbon dioxide emitted by power plants: 116.3 million tons in 2013.
The Environmental Protection Agency will announce proposed rules on Monday for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. Florida is likely to feel a large impact......more Pic Nieman Foundation
A little followed case involving the standard for intellectual disability. It has been widely ridiculed by experts and now, in a 5-4 decision, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has ruled that such a rule violated the Eighth Amendment and runs counter to recognized scientific standards.....more
“I’m not a scientist,” said Florida Governor Rick Scott last week, when asked if he thought man-made climate change was affecting the weather. “I’m not a scientist,” said Sen. Marco Rubio in 2009, his first in a long line of statement denying climate change.
Marianne Williamson is running as an independent for the U.S. House of Representatives, California District 33. Please visit her website, http://marianneforcongress.com for more information.
The Supreme Court’s latest ruling makes it even easier forout-of-state millionaires to give more money to buy elections for lobbyists likeCarlos Curbelo who are only looking after the interests of their billionaire donors and not the people they are supposed to represent.