No Room At The Library For The Homeless. When the defacto mayor of Wilmington is Buccini/Pollin, you know, the powerful overlords who steal money designated for low-income housing to build high-rise condos for the wealthy instead, this policy makes perfect sense. The Toxic Tandem of Mayor Mike and BPG continues to be perhaps the most under-reported story in Delaware. Will City Council do anything?
Building The Wall: Three Miles In Three Years:
“Our goal at the end of 2020 was 450 miles,” Mark Morgan, acting commission for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. “It’s hard right now to be able to say whether we’re still going to be able to meet that goal, but I’m confident that we’re going to be close.”
Morgan said that 93 miles of wall had been built so far during the Trump administration. At least 90 miles of that replaced existing structures, according to CBP figures – although Morgan argued during the briefing that all barriers built under Trump should be considered “new.”
Look on the bright side. At least Trump cronies are getting rich off of these contracts.
How Oil Companies Avoided Fines After Spilling 10.8 Million Gallons During Katrina. The law says they have to pay. Remember, though, it’s Louisiana:
All told, the federal agency overseeing oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico reported that more than 400 pipelines and 100 drilling platforms were damaged. The U.S. Coast Guard, the first responder for oil spills, received 540 separate reports of spills into Louisiana waters. Officials estimated that, taken together, those leaks released the same amount of oil that the highly publicized 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster spilled into Alaska’s Prince William Sound — about 10.8 million gallons.
The Oil Pollution Act, passed by Congress in response to the Valdez incident, requires that federal and state agencies work with the companies that spilled the oil to conduct a preliminary assessment of damage to natural resources. Once a comprehensive report is finalized on the value of the affected plants, soil, water and wildlife, those so-called responsible parties must pay for restoration efforts.
Fourteen years later, not one assessment of the damage to natural resources after the two 2005 hurricanes has been completed. None of the 140 parties thought to be responsible for the spills has been fined or cited for environmental violations. And no restoration plans have been developed for the impacted ecosystems, fish, birds or water quality, a review by The Times-Picayune and The Advocate and ProPublica has found.
Ocean Mining: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? A fascinating in-depth (pun intentional) piece on yet another threat to the environment. The, um, bottom line?:
“We’re about to make one of the biggest transformations that humans have ever made to the surface of the planet. We’re going to strip-mine a massive habitat, and once it’s gone, it isn’t coming back.”
Did Abusive Cardinal Bribe His Way Out Of Being Investigated? Sure looks that way. Making those who accepted the bribes, including two Popes, complicit in his ongoing pedophilia.
That’s about all I can take for one day.
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