Fashion disasters

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Hill Heat is still mostly on vacation, broiling in the fossil-fueled heat of St. Louis. The billion-dollar devastation from the fossil-fueled tornado outbreak is another stark reminder of our poisoned climate, as is the block-sized Peabody coal headquarters that looms over downtown. Here’s a quick post.

Trump's useless FEMA POS Kevin Richardson told Congress he did a heckuva job on the fossil-fueled Texas floods, whose death toll has now reached 136:

Richardson puts the “fash” in “fashion disaster.”

The fossil-fueled Eaton fire in Los Angeles is expected to wipe out California’s $21 billion wildfire disaster fund. The fund was established in 2019 to provide wildfire insurance support for California utilities in return for improving their wildfire safety practices. Not sure how well that’s going.

Yesterday, Trump rejected Maryland’s request for disaster funding for its catastrophic fossil-fueled flooding in May.

The Trump EPA is planning to do take backsies on the finding that greenhouse pollution is dangerous.

The House was sent home early for their summer break by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) because he is afraid the ties between pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and violent misogynist billionaire Donald Trump might be revealed. So I guess you’ll have to watch South Park’s take instead.

The Senate Appropriations Committee is marking up its version of the Interior, Environment and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Acts today.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) is leading Environment and Public Works Committee Democrats in a spotlight forum on how the oil and gas industry is dumping methane into our air, with scientists Arvind Ravikumar and Sarav Arunachalam, California Air Resources Board’s Courtney Smith, and climate disaster preparedness expert Lori Ehrlich.

When Congress comes back from its summer break, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is preparing to cave again to Trump on the September 30 government funding deadline, with the assistance of the Beltway commentariat, who argue that opposition is political suicide.

The genocide continues in Gaza, as the police state grows in America. Completely coincidentally, the world’s 3,000 billionaires accumulated $6.5 trillion the past decade.

Hearings on the Hill:

• 9:30 AM: Senate Appropriations Committee
  Full Committee Markup of Interior, Environment and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Acts

• 10 AM: Senate Environment and Public Works
  Mind Over Methane: The No-Brainer Climate, Economic, and Health Solution

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