Trump Seeks Massive Cuts to Clean Energy Research

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1. Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:

   January 31, 2018 at 4:53 pm

   He’s really, really sick.

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2. retired teacher says:

   January 31, 2018 at 6:18 pm

   Trump is so out of step with the rest of the world. Most other industrialized nations are moving forward with solar and wind technology. Scandinavia is even experimenting with energy from wave action which does not depend on the weather like solar. Unlike us, they don’t pander to the Koch brothers that control energy policy with their wallets.

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3. Michael J Brocoum says:

   January 31, 2018 at 7:09 pm

   Diane, Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean explains today’s Republican party and the awful affects on our society.

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4. Daniel Spaniel says:

   January 31, 2018 at 9:22 pm

   “Beautiful coal”

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5. NYC public school parent says:

   January 31, 2018 at 11:24 pm

   This is probably the wrong place to post this so I apologize in advance. But FYI – Jeremiah Kittredge was ousted as CEO of Families for Excellent Schools. For “inappropriate behavior” toward a non-employee.

   FES is basically the lobbying arm of Eva Moskowitz and Success Academy. They led the 2016 campaign in Massachusetts to allow more charters that was soundly defeated by voters. And when Massachusetts officials investigated, they learned that the dark money contributions from FES were illegally hidden. FES spent $20 million dollars in Massachusetts! Twenty million dollars on advertising instead of in schools, but I guess that’s pocket change for the pro-charter billionaires who are delighted to fund FES to fake public support for their attempt to privatize public education.

   Now the public face of the pro-Success Academy pro-privatizing public schools pro-charter movement is the guy accused of “inappropriate behavior”. As if the things that FES have been doing for the last many years have not been inappropriate all along. Fighting to force a group of severely disabled children to be evicted from their school because the richest charter school in the country wanted their space and were angry that anyone put the needs of disabled children — most of them very poor — over the needs of a charter with tens of millions in the bank.

   Inappropriate behavior indeed. It’s long past time that inappropriate behavior was recognized for what it was.

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6. SomeDAM Poet says:

   February 1, 2018 at 7:30 am

   “Nat Clean Coal”

   The latest goal
   For Nat Clean Coal
   Is burning natural gas

   The Clean Coal sham
   Ain’t worth a DAM
   And we should take a pass

   https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608191/clean-coals-flagship-project-has-failed/

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   • SomeDAM Poet says:

     February 1, 2018 at 8:07 am

     And, yes, that is a play on Nat King Cole (famous for “The Christmas song” , “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…”

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7. Chiara says:

   February 1, 2018 at 7:44 am

   The Progressive Policy Institute lobbies for ed reform. They push for “portfolio districts” which is a fancy phrase meaning “privatized”.

   But they MOSTLY lobby against net neutrality:

   “But rather than an organic expression of policy preferences by disparate Twitter users, the wave of messages started as an online advertising campaign by the Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist think tank affiliated with the Democratic Party that has consistently opposed net neutrality regulations imposed by the FCC.

   Lindsay Mark Lewis, executive director of the Progressive Policy Institute, told HuffPost that the advocacy campaign is meant to target “pragmatic Members of Congress” in pursuit of a “real legislative solution” to net neutrality. Lewis called the Doyle and Markey bills “nothing but a gesture without a solution.” He added that the think tank has long supported a legislative solution to the net neutrality issue, something that Democrats and Republicans in Congress have never agreed on.”

   https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/net-neutrality-progressive-policy-institute_us_5a70f13ee4b0be822ba143f4?uc

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8. markstextterminal says:

   February 1, 2018 at 10:21 am

   This is a very thoughtful Valentine for Charles and David Koch.

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