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Trump takes action to move forward with Keystone, Dakota Access
pipelines
<http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/315852-trump-orders-keystone-dakota-access-pipeline-applications-to-move>
The Hill -6 minutes ago
President Trump on Tuesday moved two controversial pipeline projects
forward by signing a pair of executive actions that could speed up
approval of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access projects.
https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/24/trump-harold-hamm-keystone-xl-dakota-access-approval-order
*Key Trump Donor Stands to Profit from Order to Approve Keystone XL,
Dakota Access Pipelines
<https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/24/trump-harold-hamm-keystone-xl-dakota-access-approval-order>*
On January 24, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders
calling for the approval of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL
pipelines, owned by Energy Transfer Partners and TransCanada,
respectively. He also signed an order calling for expedited
environmental reviews of domestic infrastructure projects, such as
pipelines...
Donald Trump's top presidential campaign energy aide Harold Hamm
stands to profit if both pipelines go through...
Hamm, the founder and CEO of Continental Resources who sat in the
VIP box at Trump's inauguration and was a major Trump campaign
donor, would see his company's oil obtained from hydraulic
fracturing ("fracking") in the Bakken Shale flow through both lines.
Kelcy Warren, CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, was also a major
Trump donor.
Rick Perry, Trump's nominee for U.S. Secretary of Energy, served on
the Board of Directors for Energy Transfer Partners until he
received the nomination from Trump.
Trump's U.S. Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson, former CEO of
ExxonMobil, would presumably have some say over the approval of the
U.S.-Canada border-crossing Keystone XL, which must receive a
presidential permit by the U.S. Department of State. Exxon, as
reported by DeSmog, extracts tar sands in Alberta which would flow
through Keystone and also has refining capacity in Texas.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) also weighed in:
http://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2017/01/24/api-welcomes-president-trump-commitment
*API WELCOMES PRESIDENT TRUMP'S COMMITMENT TO NATION'S ENERGY
INFRASTRUCTURE
<http://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2017/01/24/api-welcomes-president-trump-commitment>*
"We are pleased to see the new direction being taken by this
administration to recognize the importance of our nation's energy
infrastructure by restoring the rule of law in the permitting
process that's critical to pipelines and other infrastructure
projects," said Jack Gerard, API's President and CEO, in a press
release. "Critical energy infrastructure projects like the Keystone
XL and the Dakota Access Pipelines will help deliver energy to
American consumers and businesses safely and efficiently.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Badlands-National-Park-goes-rogue-on-Trump-10880945.php
*Badlands National Park goes rogue on Trump, tweets/global/warming
data..
<https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwiPvtqygtzRAhUEzmMKHYU6BncQqQIIHCgAMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seattlepi.com%2Flocal%2Fpolitics%2Farticle%2FBadlands-National-Park-goes-rogue-on-Trump-10880945.php&usg=AFQjCNEmdV-CJ6Ls3Ia2qP4Sk6Vb5TSZfA&sig2=9-rHd2CRj1EuLvx52MExpg>*
seattlepi.com-1 hour ago JOEL CONNELLY
Actually, the act of speaking truth to power consisted of quoting
factual data from a National Wildlife Federation guide on/global
warming/.
The Twitter account for Badlands National Park let loose some
entirely factual but now politically fraught statements regarding
climate change on Tuesday afternoon.
The act of defiance was brief. The tweets from Badlands National
Park soon came down, but not before going viral.
Actually, the act of speaking truth to power consisted of quoting
factual data from a National Wildlife Federation guide on global
warming. Said the first tweet:
"Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher
than at any time in the last 650,000 years. #climate."
A second tweet followed: "The pre-industrial concentration of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 280 parts per million (ppm). As
of December 2016, 404.93 ppm."
And there was a third Tweet from just east of Rapid City: "Flipside
of the atmosphere; ocean acidity has increased 30% since the
Industrial Revolution. 'Ocean Acidification' #climate #carboncycle."...
Specifically, the Trump administration... told .. the U.S.
Department of the Interior -- which oversees the National Park
Service -- to "immediately cease use of government Twitter accounts"
to talk about global warming.
And the National Park Service has already been in trouble.
On Inauguration Day, it retweeted photos showing that Trump's
swearing-in crowd was much smaller than the throng that turned out
for President Obama in 2009. Interior immediately shut down all
Twitter accounts.
Its Twitter service was restored a day later, after the National
Park Service deleted the crowd tweets and was made to eat crow. It
said in a followup tweet:
"We regret the mistaken RT's from our account yesterday and look
forward to continuing to share the beauty and history of our parks
with you."
White House press secretary, said of the Inauguration Day tweet:
"My understanding is that because they had inappropriately violated
their own social media policies, there was guidance that was put out
to the department to act in compliance with the rules that were set
forth."
All the climate change-related tweets from @BadlandsNPS earlier
today have been deleted. Wayback Machine has them:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170124222015/https:/twitter.com/BadlandsNPS
[ https://t.co/6uVKhiEeY4 ]
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/federal-agencies-trump-information-lockdown-234122
Information lockdown hits Trump's federal agencies
<http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/federal-agencies-trump-information-lockdown-234122>
Politico -1 hour ago
Federal agencies are clamping down on public information and social
media in the early days of Donald Trump's presidency, limiting
employees' ability to issue news releases, tweet or otherwise
communicate with the outside world, according to memos and ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/environmental-protection-grants-staff_us_5886825be4b0e3a7356b575f
*EPA Freezes Grants, Tells Employees Not To Talk About It, Sources Say
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/environmental-protection-grants-staff_us_5886825be4b0e3a7356b575f?pon75akll8ei5dn29>*
Kate Sheppard - Enterprise editor/Senior reporter, The Huffington Post
WASHINGTON ― The Environmental Protection Agency has frozen its
grant programs, according to sources there.
"I will say it's pretty unusual for us to get these kinds of
anonymous contacts from people at the agency, which makes me think
it's unusual," said the Hill source.
The memo states that the agency is imposing tight controls on
external communication, including press releases, blog posts, social
media and content on the agency website.
Please review this material and share with all appropriate
individuals in your organization. If anyone on your staff
receives a press inquiry of any kind, it must be referred to me
so I can coordinate with the appropriate individuals in OPA.
No press releases will be going out to external audiences.
No social media will be going out. A Digital Strategist will be
coming on board to oversee social media. Existing, individually
controlled, social media accounts may become more centrally
controlled.
No blog messages.
The Beach Team will review the list of upcoming webinars and
decide which ones will go forward.
Please send me a list of any external speaking engagements that
are currently scheduled among any of your staff from today
through February.
Incoming media requests will be carefully screened.
No new content can be placed on any website. Only do clean up
where essential.
List servers will be reviewed. Only send out critical messages,
as messages can be shared broadly and end up in the press.
I will provide updates to this information as soon as I receive it.
("Beach team" refers to staffers for the new administration working
at the various agencies while new leadership is put in place; "OPA"
most likely refers to the "Office of Public Affairs.")
In a report later Monday night, ProPublica confirmed the freeze in
an interview and reported it also includes EPA contracts. Ebell told
ProPublica the freeze is to "make sure nothing happens they don't
want to have happen."
"This may be a little wider than some previous administrations, but
it's very similar to what others have done," he said.
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/01/23/donald-trump-steps-office-record-number-americans-worried-global-warming/
As Donald Trump Steps Into Office, Record Number Of Americans Are
"Very Worried" About Global Warming
<https://cleantechnica.com/2017/01/23/donald-trump-steps-office-record-number-americans-worried-global-warming/>
CleanTechnica -22 hours ago
"Americans also continue to support climate action, as our recent
report on the*Politics of Global Warming*found," added co-lead
investigator Edward Maibach, PhD.
http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-in-the-american-mind-november-2016/
*Report Summary Climate Change in the American Mind: November 2016 Yale
Study
<http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-in-the-american-mind-november-2016/>*
Our nationally representative survey conducted shortly after the
presidential election finds that the number of Americans "very
worried" about global warming has reached a record high (19%), since
first measured in 2008. A majority of Americans (61%) say they are
"very" or "somewhat" worried about global warming – nearly equal to
the highest level recorded in 2008 (62%). Likewise, Americans
increasingly view global warming as a threat. Since Spring 2015,
more Americans think it will harm people in developing countries,
people in the U.S., future generations, their own family, and
themselves personally.
By a three-to-one margin, Americans also say that schools should
teach children about the causes, consequences, and potential
solutions to global warming (76% agree vs. 24% who disagree).
*Climate regulations under a watchful internet eye.
<http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/248784/142179/190035/0/>*
Bracing for a rollback, website run by Columbia Law School alerts any
time President Trump or Congress change a rule involving climate change
or energy. InsideClimate News
<http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/248784/142179/190035/0/>.
http://www.globalchange.gov/notices#CSSR
*Climate Science Special Report - Public Comment Period
<http://www.globalchange.gov/notices#CSSR>*
The CSSR Public Comment Period runs from 15 December 2016 - 3
February 2017 (revised).
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) seeks public
comment on the third-order draft of its Climate Science Special
Report (CSSR). This special report provides an update to the
physical climate science presented in the Third National Climate
Assessment (NCA3) released in 2014, specifically Chapter 2 and
Appendices 3 and 4. The draft CSSR provides updated climate science
findings and projections, and is an important input to the authors
of the next quadrennial NCA (NCA4), expected in 2018.
http://www.globalchange.gov/nca3-downloads-materials
*Appeal to help save data. *Via the anti-fracking group SAFE in southern
Illinois I was made aware of this appear from Houston on facebook (link:
https://www.facebook.com/37527174/videos/10103697022484476/ )
http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/248784/142179/190049/0/
*Doomsday prep for the super-rich
<http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/248784/142179/190049/0/>*
Some of the wealthiest people in America—in Silicon Valley, New York,
and beyond—are getting ready for the crackup of civilization. New Yorker
<http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/248784/142179/190049/0/>.
In private Facebook groups, wealthy survivalists swap tips on gas
masks, bunkers, and locations safe from the effects of climate
change. One member, the head of an investment firm, told me, "I keep
a helicopter gassed up all the time, and I have an underground
bunker with an air-filtration system." He said that his preparations
probably put him at the "extreme" end among his peers. But he added,
"A lot of my friends do the guns and the motorcycles and the gold
coins. That's not too rare anymore."
Over the years, Huffman has become increasingly concerned about
basic American political stability and the risk of large-scale
unrest. He said, "Some sort of institutional collapse, then you just
lose shipping—that sort of stuff." (Prepper blogs call such a
scenario W.R.O.L., "without rule of law.") Huffman has come to
believe that contemporary life rests on a fragile consensus. "I
think, to some degree, we all collectively take it on faith that our
country works, that our currency is valuable, the peaceful transfer
of power—that all of these things that we hold dear work because we
believe they work. While I do believe they're quite resilient, and
we've been through a lot, certainly we're going to go through a lot
more."
"Anyone who's in this community knows people who are worried that
America is heading toward something like the Russian Revolution," he
told me recently.
As public institutions deteriorate, élite anxiety has emerged as a
gauge of our national predicament. "Why do people who are envied for
being so powerful appear to be so afraid?" Johnson asked. "What does
that really tell us about our system?" He added, "It's a very odd
thing. You're basically seeing that the people who've been the best
at reading the tea leaves—the ones with the most resources, because
that's how they made their money—are now the ones most preparing to
pull the rip cord and jump out of the plane."
Why do our dystopian urges emerge at certain moments and not others?
Doomsday—as a prophecy, a literary genre, and a business
opportunity—is never static; it evolves with our anxieties. ..
"I think, in the back of people's minds, frankly, is that, if the
world really goes to shit, New Zealand is a First World country,
completely self-sufficient, if necessary—energy, water, food. Life
would deteriorate, but it would not collapse." ..." American clients
have also sought strategic advice. "They're asking, 'Where in New
Zealand is not going to be long-term affected by rising sea levels?'
"...
"If I had a billion dollars, I wouldn't buy a bunker," Elli Kaplan,
the C.E.O. of the digital health startup Neurotrack, told me. "I
would reinvest in civil society and civil innovation. My view is you
figure out even smarter ways to make sure that something terrible
doesn't happen." Kaplan, who worked in the White House under Bill
Clinton, was appalled by Trump's victory, but said that it
galvanized her in a different way: "Even in my deepest fear, I say,
'Our union is stronger than this.' "...
That view is, in the end, an article of faith—a conviction that even
degraded political institutions are the best instruments of common
will, the tools for fashioning and sustaining our fragile consensus.
Believing that is a choice. ...
"The easy question is, How do I protect me and mine? The more
interesting question is, What if civilization actually manages
continuity as well as it has managed it for the past few centuries?
What do we do if it just keeps on chugging?"
<http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=40205>*<http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/climate-change-cause-effect/>This
Day in Climate History January 25
<http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=40205>, 1984 - from D.R. Tucker
*
**In his State of the Union Address, President Ronald Reagan says
something that would be considered highly controversial by the right
wing today:
"...[L]et us remember our responsibility to preserve our older
resources here on Earth. Preservation of our environment is not a
liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense."
https://youtu.be/TdMTTlpfNP4?t=21m52s
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=40205
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