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What Project 2025 would mean for the fight against climate change

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4769252-project-2025-climate-change-energy-environment

Project 2025, a controversial conservative roadmap that aims to guide the next Republican administration, calls for the elimination of multiple energy- and environment-related offices and rules — moves that would restrict the government’s ability to combat climate change and pollution.

Policies promoted under the plan would place political personnel in positions to oversee science at major federal agencies and reduce such agencies’ limitations on polluting industries.

The project additionally proposes chopping up several agencies. It called for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the nation’s oceans, weather, climate and fisheries science agency, to be “dismantled.”

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Project 2025 has sparked concerns among environmental advocates. Climate activist Jamie Henn said what alarms him about the project is not necessarily that it’s more extreme than Trump’s proposals, but that it’s more specific. 

“Trump would frack the National Mall if he thought it would make a couple of bucks for donors and Big Oil,” said Henn, director of Fossil Free Media, a nonprofit that supports ending fossil fuel use.

But he said “Trump tends to speak in slogans,” while “this is a plan that really gets into the details.”

“We’re not only going agency by agency, we’re going into every single agency program,” Henn said. “They’re coming in with sledgehammers and scalpels to try and dismantle any barriers to the fossil fuel industries.”

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4769252-project-2025-climate-change-energy-environment

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123 House and Senate Republicans deny climate science: Analysis

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4778682-house-senate-republicans-deny-climate-science-analysis

In this Aug. 17, 2021, file photo, embers light up hillsides as the Dixie Fire burns near Milford in Lassen County, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

A total of 123 members of the House and Senate deny the scientific consensus that climate change is occurring as a result of human activity, according to an analysis from the liberal Center for American Progress. 

In a new report, first shared with The Hill, analyzing public statements made by lawmakers, the think tank determined these climate deniers are all Republicans and include prominent members of House leadership. 

It defined climate deniers as lawmakers who say any of the following: climate change is not real, it is not primarily caused by humans, the science is not settled on climate change, extreme weather is not caused by climate change, or climate change is actually beneficial. 

The report does not consider lawmakers who acknowledge that climate change is real but oppose climate actions to be deniers. 

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4778682-house-senate-republicans-deny-climate-science-analysis

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Labour suspends seven rebel MPs over two-child benefit cap

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Zionist Keir ‘Kid Starver’ Starmer. Image thanks to The Skwawkbox.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c978m6z3egno

Seven Labour MPs have had the whip suspended for six months after voting against the government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

Ex-shadow chancellor John McDonnell was among the Labour MPs who voted for an SNP motion calling for an end to the policy, which prevents almost all parents from claiming Universal Credit or child tax credit for more than two children.

Mr McDonnell backed the SNP motion alongside Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Imran Hussain, Apsana Begum and Zarah Sultana.

MPs rejected the SNP amendment by 363 votes to 103, in the first major test of the new Labour government’s authority.

Losing the whip means the MPs are suspended from the parliamentary party and will now sit as independent MPs.

Nearly all of the rebels were allies of the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who now sits as an independent MP and put his name to the SNP motion.

In a statement on social media, Ms Sultana said she would “always stand up for the most vulnerable in our society”, adding that scrapping the cap would “lift 33,000 children out of poverty”.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c978m6z3egno

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UK COVERS UP GAZA SPY FOOTAGE FROM DAY OF AID WORKER MASSACRE

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https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-covers-up-gaza-spy-footage-from-day-of-aid-worker-massacre/

An RAF Shadow R1 spy plane over the Mediterranean. (Photo: Gordon Zammit / Alamy)

Declassified Exclusive: Royal Air Force has surveillance tape of Gaza from the day Israel killed British aid workers – but refuses to publish it.

  • Family of slain aid worker demands to see footage
  • UN expert warns British military may have to hand tape to International Criminal Court

Britain’s Ministry of Defence holds video surveillance footage of Gaza from the day that Israel killed seven international aid workers but is refusing to publish the tape.

Among those killed in the World Central Kitchen convoy on 1 April were three British military veterans: John Chapman, James Kirby and James ‘Jim’ Henderson.

The footage was taken by a Royal Air Force (RAF) surveillance plane which spent approximately five hours above Gaza that day.

It seemingly returned to base in Cyprus minutes before the airstrikes were launched.

The RAF may therefore have collected footage of events leading up to the tragedy, which could provide clarity over Israeli claims that “Hamas gunmen” were seen near the convoy.

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https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-covers-up-gaza-spy-footage-from-day-of-aid-worker-massacre/

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