@con-johnson.bsky.social
Aspiring Environmental/Water Resources Engineer 🌳🏞👨🔬
Current Iowa State Grad Student (2x Univ. of Iowa Graduate, so I'm still more of a Hawkeye)
Current Iowa State Grad Student (2x Univ. of Iowa Graduate, so I'm still more of a Hawkeye)
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Republicans have introduced a bill to abolish OSHA.
As a former labor secretary, I know firsthand how crucial this agency is to protecting workers from bosses who cut corners on safety to pad their own pockets.
This is the party of corporate greed, not the party of workers.
As a former labor secretary, I know firsthand how crucial this agency is to protecting workers from bosses who cut corners on safety to pad their own pockets.
This is the party of corporate greed, not the party of workers.
Republican calls to scrap workplace safety agency
Representative Andy Biggs made an earlier bid to abolish the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 2021.
www.newsweek.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Republicans have introduced a bill to abolish OSHA.
As a former labor secretary, I know firsthand how crucial this agency is to protecting workers from bosses who cut corners on safety to pad their own pockets.
This is the party of corporate greed, not the party of workers.
As a former labor secretary, I know firsthand how crucial this agency is to protecting workers from bosses who cut corners on safety to pad their own pockets.
This is the party of corporate greed, not the party of workers.
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The irony is that new IRS agents were hired specifically to audit high income earners - NOT like "YOU," but like ELON. He uses regular people as a shield to protect himself and his pals from clawing back what we lose to tax cheats. Elon's fans are useful idiots as he consolidates wealth for himself.
February 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The irony is that new IRS agents were hired specifically to audit high income earners - NOT like "YOU," but like ELON. He uses regular people as a shield to protect himself and his pals from clawing back what we lose to tax cheats. Elon's fans are useful idiots as he consolidates wealth for himself.
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Trump and the GOP are trying to repeal a Biden admin rule that requires lead water pipes to be replaced.
Tens of millions of people, including children, would continue to have contaminated drinking water if the rules are revoked.
So the GOP is the party of lead poisoning now?
Tens of millions of people, including children, would continue to have contaminated drinking water if the rules are revoked.
So the GOP is the party of lead poisoning now?
Republicans move to repeal lead limits imposed by Biden-era rules
US government would be prohibited from ever mandating lead pipe replacement or lowering lead limits in water
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Trump and the GOP are trying to repeal a Biden admin rule that requires lead water pipes to be replaced.
Tens of millions of people, including children, would continue to have contaminated drinking water if the rules are revoked.
So the GOP is the party of lead poisoning now?
Tens of millions of people, including children, would continue to have contaminated drinking water if the rules are revoked.
So the GOP is the party of lead poisoning now?
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“Have you ever heard a single public health official or politician of either party talk about any of these reports? Of course not. Why? Because they’re terrified of upsetting the sacred cow of agriculture, even as it stampedes over your health and well-being.”
“what about the drivers of cancer and other disease that result from the choices of others, especially those that choose their own economic well-being over the health of their neighbors? www.thegazette.com/guest-column...
Opinion: Iowa ignores environmental cancer causes
Des Moines Water Works employee Bill Blubaugh collects a water sample from the Raccoon River, Thursday, June 3, 2021, in …
www.thegazette.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Have you ever heard a single public health official or politician of either party talk about any of these reports? Of course not. Why? Because they’re terrified of upsetting the sacred cow of agriculture, even as it stampedes over your health and well-being.”
It's a tax that will disproportionately impact lower income households/ individuals.
Additionally, businesses with connections or money to spend on lobbyists might be able to get exempted, but the fairness and transparency of that process have not been great in the past.
Additionally, businesses with connections or money to spend on lobbyists might be able to get exempted, but the fairness and transparency of that process have not been great in the past.
Reminder that a tariff is a tax.
Trump is raising your taxes.
Trump is raising your taxes.
February 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It's a tax that will disproportionately impact lower income households/ individuals.
Additionally, businesses with connections or money to spend on lobbyists might be able to get exempted, but the fairness and transparency of that process have not been great in the past.
Additionally, businesses with connections or money to spend on lobbyists might be able to get exempted, but the fairness and transparency of that process have not been great in the past.
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“DNR has been charged with protecting our natural resources & overseeing safety of drinking water. They choose again to prioritize exploitation over protection of one the last streams in IA still clinging to a shred of its original integrity.”
cedarrapidsgazette-ia.newsmemory.com?publink=156d...
cedarrapidsgazette-ia.newsmemory.com?publink=156d...
Supreme Beef water dispute headed to court
State says its ‘robust’ laws protect environmentBy Jared Strong, T
cedarrapidsgazette-ia.newsmemory.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“DNR has been charged with protecting our natural resources & overseeing safety of drinking water. They choose again to prioritize exploitation over protection of one the last streams in IA still clinging to a shred of its original integrity.”
cedarrapidsgazette-ia.newsmemory.com?publink=156d...
cedarrapidsgazette-ia.newsmemory.com?publink=156d...
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Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off.
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
Trump’s executive order took aim at “environmental justice” — eliminating positions and assessing spending on projects, including those aimed at poor, rural communities.
I talked to former WH environmental justice advisers to the Biden administration on what this means. www.cnn.com/2025/01/26/c...
I talked to former WH environmental justice advisers to the Biden administration on what this means. www.cnn.com/2025/01/26/c...
Trump’s gutting of federal DEI programs will hit rural poor communities | CNN
Just hours after his swearing-in this week, President Donald Trump signed action to end “radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing.” Communities across the country, including in po...
www.cnn.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off.
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
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Trump's treasury nominee Scott Bessent, who is worth ~$500 million, said extending Trump's tax cuts for the rich is "the most important economic issue of the day."
When asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25 an hour, he said, "No, sir."
When asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25 an hour, he said, "No, sir."
January 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Trump's treasury nominee Scott Bessent, who is worth ~$500 million, said extending Trump's tax cuts for the rich is "the most important economic issue of the day."
When asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25 an hour, he said, "No, sir."
When asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25 an hour, he said, "No, sir."
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The new White House has already deleted dozens of environmental justice websites and reports. Worry not, they’re all backed up on various independent university websites. eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker-type...
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Federal Environmental Justice Tracker – Environmental and Energy Law Program
eelp.law.harvard.edu
January 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The new White House has already deleted dozens of environmental justice websites and reports. Worry not, they’re all backed up on various independent university websites. eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker-type...
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A geat read from @theswinerepublic.bsky.social on the role that the Iowa DNR & local Iowa officials have in putting Iowans at risk due to them not taking high nitrate concentrations in drinking water sources seriously.
Dr. Jones doesn't pull any punches
riverraccoon.substack.com/p/bridge-ove...
Dr. Jones doesn't pull any punches
riverraccoon.substack.com/p/bridge-ove...
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and a DNR that advocates for polluters
riverraccoon.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A geat read from @theswinerepublic.bsky.social on the role that the Iowa DNR & local Iowa officials have in putting Iowans at risk due to them not taking high nitrate concentrations in drinking water sources seriously.
Dr. Jones doesn't pull any punches
riverraccoon.substack.com/p/bridge-ove...
Dr. Jones doesn't pull any punches
riverraccoon.substack.com/p/bridge-ove...
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January 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Ever since the disastrous Citizens United ruling, outside spending on federal elections has skyrocketed.
Big money corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy — creating a vicious cycle that funnels more wealth and power to those at the top.
Big money corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy — creating a vicious cycle that funnels more wealth and power to those at the top.
January 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Ever since the disastrous Citizens United ruling, outside spending on federal elections has skyrocketed.
Big money corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy — creating a vicious cycle that funnels more wealth and power to those at the top.
Big money corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy — creating a vicious cycle that funnels more wealth and power to those at the top.
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A Zeldin-run EPA will bow down to the fossil fuel industry as the climate crisis puts more and more families at risk.
We need to hold fossil fuel companies accountable, NOT give them more handouts and free passes.
We need to hold fossil fuel companies accountable, NOT give them more handouts and free passes.
January 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A Zeldin-run EPA will bow down to the fossil fuel industry as the climate crisis puts more and more families at risk.
We need to hold fossil fuel companies accountable, NOT give them more handouts and free passes.
We need to hold fossil fuel companies accountable, NOT give them more handouts and free passes.
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I dunno, sometimes I feel like I’m never gonna become an oligarch 😔
January 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I dunno, sometimes I feel like I’m never gonna become an oligarch 😔
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Curious that an article in today’s Gazette touts Batch and Build as an example of “radical collaboration”getting things done when they recently published a story showing many of the projects B&B supports don’t actually improve water quality and just waste taxpayer dollars 🤷♂️
January 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Curious that an article in today’s Gazette touts Batch and Build as an example of “radical collaboration”getting things done when they recently published a story showing many of the projects B&B supports don’t actually improve water quality and just waste taxpayer dollars 🤷♂️
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You CAN fight Shitty Hall
And if you want clean water and air, you'll have to
open.substack.com
December 28, 2024 at 12:39 PM