Trump’s EPA rolls back limits on climate pollution from power plants
Throughout Barack Obama's and Joe Biden's presidencies, the Democratic administrations took steps to address the climate crisis by imposing pollution limits on, among other things, coal-fired power plants.
Donald Trump's administration continues to take dramatic steps in the opposite direction.
In the latest development, the Republican's Environmental Protection Agency confirmed Monday that it is scrapping rules that limit climate pollution from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas. As The Associated Press noted, the move, according to Trump's EPA, would "remove more than $300 billion in costs for the industry."
In a wider sense and as we already know, behind this standard piece of climate propaganda is the destruction of private lives, the same creeping trend Cyril Connolly observed in 1944. Now of course the trend is global and even more insidious, but still based on a weird, communistic fraternity.
Fraternity is the State’s bribe to the individual; It is the one virtue which can bring courage to members of a materialist society. All state propaganda exalts comradeship, for it is this gregarious heard-sense and herd-smell which keeps people from thinking and so reconciles them to the destruction of their private lives. A problem for government writers, or for the war artists in their war cemetery's: how to convert Fraternity into an aesthetic emotion?
Palinurus (Cyril Connolly) – The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Palinurus (Cyril Connolly) – The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Similarly, the protest at Trump's EPA restriction has nothing whatever to do with the climate and everything to do with converting the global climate into an aesthetic emotion. The global aspect is important, the real climate isn't.
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From https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-09-14/main-event :
"Globalism died in 2014 when the US shale fields became economically viable at scale but nobody realized it at the time. It was year the Eurodollar market began to get drained of dollars, partly due to horrible investments in emerging markets like China and partly due to the loss of cash flow from the Petrodollar market. As US shale production ramped up, US exports of dollars to the Middle East for oil declined at an increasing rate."
I often read the more analytical financial press as it often provides insight into what is *really* going on.
If Globalism is dying, or has already died, it would explain why current politics, wars, and 'events' are so unsettled. It would explain Trump's actions too... he is doing his job to strengthen the USA. It would also explain why the old Establishment hate him so much.
The aesthetic emotions are changing and 'old money' doesn't like being sidelined.
"he is doing his job to strengthen the USA": on the domestic front, yes. In foreign policy, however, he has disastrously exposed American military weakness.
I invite you to consider running an occasional series "What an unfortunate phrasing". As an example, this is from today's Times newsletter.
"Andy Burnham’s father has died after years of living with dementia. The PM described Roy Burnham as one of his main political influences"
DJ - thanks, that's a very interesting link, but how it is likely to pan out for real lives I don't know. As with any scenario, we have to assume that other major players will be aware of the trends and react in their own interests.
dearieme - blimey that is unfortunate, does nobody else read it before publication? I imagine Times readers are quite likely to spot it too.
DJ's link was indeed fascinating. I particularly enjoyed 'nefarious “shadow banks” in places such as the Caribbean, Dubai, Isle of Wight, Hong Kong, Singapore, Cyprus'. Isle of Wight, eh?
But ranters such as this chap keep using daft expressions along the lines of "London controls ...," when all they've demonstrated is that London is where the such-and-such exchange operates. Important, no doubt, to the employees and to parasite industries such as The Law, but very far from "controls".
dearieme - I'm almost tempted to look at investment opportunities in the Isle of Wight.
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