Nice, Polite Republicans Strike Again.

There's this long, scary article over at NPR about possible deadly rollbacks to the landmark 1963 Clean Air Act.

Here's the online blurb:

The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer ...

And here's the headline:

 Congress moves to loosen toxic air pollution rules

And yet, to borrow a few words from the immortal Buckaroo Banzai, you could take that article, and pulverize it, and sift through it like breadcrumbs for the rest of your natural life ... 

Congress has voted to undo a Clean Air Act regulation that strictly controls the amount of toxic air pollutants emitted by many industrial facilities like oil refineries, chemical plants, and steel mills...

The House approved the resolution early Thursday morning, following a Senate vote in favor of changing the rule earlier this month...

The move is part of a larger effort by the Trump administration to roll back environmental and public health regulations. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced in March that he intends to re-evaluate other regulations like the one Congress just voted to change, which is related to a section of the Clean Air Act that deals with Hazardous Air Pollutants...

Rules regulating those seven air toxic pollutants, along with more than 180 others, have been in place since 1990 when Congress passed a major amendment to the Clean Air Act that greatly increased its specific regulatory powers...

The regulation Congress targeted concerns which facilities count as "major sources."...

... and you would never, ever, find any mention of the fact that this was a party line vote.

All but one House Republican voted for it.

All Democrats voted against it.  

Which should come as no surprise.  

For as long as I can remember, NPR (Nice, Polite Republicans) has bent itself into all kinds of unnatural shapes to avoid holding Republicans responsible for Republican atrocities.  To avoid pointing a finger and calling out Republicans for what they very clearly are.  

        

Fat lotta good it's done them.  

From The White House:

Presidential Actions

ENDING TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZATION OF BIASED MEDIA

Executive Orders

May 1, 2025

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1.  Purpose.  National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) receive taxpayer funds through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).  Unlike in 1967, when the CPB was established, today the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options.  Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence. 

At the very least, Americans have the right to expect that if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news coverage.  No media outlet has a constitutional right to taxpayer subsidies, and the Government is entitled to determine which categories of activities to subsidize.  The CPB’s governing statute reflects principles of impartiality:  the CPB may not “contribute to or otherwise support any political party.”  47 U.S.C. 396(f)(3); see also id. 396(e)(2). 

The CPB fails to abide by these principles to the extent it subsidizes NPR and PBS.  Which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does not matter.  What does matter is that neither entity presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens...

Because NPR failed to learn the first and most important lesson about dealing with fascists:  Appeasement never works. 

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