It’s time for the Vole People to take over, anyway.
Surprise, surprise. Scott Pruitt now a Coal Lobbyist:
Scott Pruitt, the embattled former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, registered Thursday as a lobbyist with state regulators.
Pruitt’s filings with the Indiana Lobby Registration Commission identify him as a self-employed consultant and list RailPoint Solutions LLC as his sole client. His lobbying topics include “energy” and “natural resources.”
It’s unclear what, exactly, Pruitt is working on or who he is meeting with at the Statehouse, but he has ties to the Indiana coal industry. IndyStar’s attempts to reach him Thursday afternoon were unsuccessful.
RailPoint Solutions does not appear to have a web address, nor is a company by that name registered to do business in Indiana. A search of Delaware business records, however, shows an incorporation date of Jan. 22.
The lobbying registration lists Heather Tryon as a responsible party. Heather Tryon is also the name of the chief financial officer of Sunrise Coal, Indiana’s second largest coal producer, according to the company’s website.
So what you’re saying is Trump drained the swamp by getting rid of Pruitt.
Chaplin
5199
I hope they do. I just went to an A&W here in California. No impossible burger was to be found. Also, there was single use plastic everywhere. I was disappointed. I was ready to be a loyal convert. I guess I will keep taking my reusable straw to traditional meat joints.
I’m in Vancouver tomorrow, so I’ll see if I can find one.
Nesrie
5202
Trending video trying to get some attention for a good cause of course.
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Song doesn’t work as well without the video though… big names in there.
From the department of magical science fixes:
“We’re trying to do something that’s a huge, complicated thing even though it sounds so simple,” Chory says. “Plants evolved to suck up CO2 and they’re really good at it. And they concentrate it, which no machine can do, and they make it into useful materials, like sugar. They suck up all the CO2, they fix it, then it goes back up into the atmosphere.”
She is now working to design plants capable of storing even more carbon dioxide in their roots. Her Ideal Plant project uses gene editing – via traditional horticulture and Crispr – to do so. On a large scale, this could suck enough carbon out of the atmosphere to slow down climate change.
This concept basically splices the genes of regular crops and everyday plants like beans, corn and cotton, with a new compound that makes them absorb more carbon. Their roots then transfer it to the soil to keep it there.
This approach essentially supercharges what nature already does.
Timex
5204
I liked using monoliths to raise carniferns to sentience in Sim Earth.
I got 15.6%.
I am destroying the Earth right now just sitting here looking at my screen.
:(
Changing your name to Gozar, eh?
MikeJ
5210
I got 46.9 but I think the scoring system is stupid. I tended to switch best and second best and you only get half points for that. Exactly as if I had switched worst and best.
I got a 50%, but I agree - goofy scoring system.
40.6%, but I do know how to plan a city!
Around 40 for me, but I had similar issues with the scoring. Worse, the questions gave you basically nothing to go on:
“Increase Household Recycling” – the fuck does that mean? If we recycle at 100% efficiency? Have twice as many people recycle as do today? Improve it by 5%? increase the threshold of what we can recycle?
“Drive an Electric Car” vs. “Invest in Light Rail”. I took that to mean, what would be better: If everyone who owns a car got an electric car instead of their gas vehicle, or if everyone who drives a car today took light rail instead. The answer’s pretty obvious there, right?
No. “Invest in light rail” takes the equivalent of 10.7M cars off the road while the “Electric car” option takes 75.7M cars off the road. So, “Invest in light rail” obviously means something mysterious.
And my personal favorite: “Return land to indigenous people”. As soon as I read this option, I knew there was no way I could judge that question. My initial thought was, “well, there are about 5 million native Americans out of a population of about 330 million. If we gave the land back and killed all the non-natives, we’d make a HUGE dent in the country’s carbon footprint.”
But no. It’s #3 behind “Plant more bamboo”.
The annoying thing is that they don’t explain what it meant even after you click the “how’d I do?” button. Just that apparently returning land to the indigenous peoples will take the equivalent of 43 million cars off the road.
And Bamboo is a hated insidious invasive plant. It gets deeeep roots and once it digs in it is almost impossible to get rid of it. I don’t care if it cures cancer, I don’t want any in my yard.
