.Quotes
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe. Elon Musk
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. John James Audubon
While We Worried About COVID-19, EPA Was Busy
1. EPA Lets polluters police themselves, using the crisis as their excuse.
2. The administration rolled back Average Fuel Economy goals from 5% increase to 1.5 improvement goal for corporations .
3. Reducing standards for mercury and air toxic for power plants.
4. Amid the steep drop in oil prices caused by COVID-19, the EPA sold the right to drill for oil in 400,000 acres off shore in the Gulf of Mexico.
5. Giving money to oil companies for oil the country does not need.
Other EPA changes they thought you wouldn't notice
6. Replacing Clean Power Plan
7. Gutting the Clean Water Plan, and replacing it with a plan that would leave half the nation's water unprotected and unregulated.
8. Rolling back safeguards against coal ash.
9. Narrowing the kinds of projects which require environmental reviews according to the NEPA.
10. The EPA now limits which scientific studies they will publish in public health rules favoring industry studies over objective scientific research.
Taken from Sierra Club.
Hattie McDaniel
Denver East High School graduate in 1908, she is best known for her roles as Mammy in Gone With the Wind for which she was the first African American to win an Oscar. She won the Supporting Actress award 1939 for her role in Gone With the Wind. Most people do not know Hattie McDaniel appeared in over 300 films although she was given screen credits for only 83.
McDaniel was also a singer and made records for Okeh Records and Paramount Records. She also sang on KOA Denver Radio. Judge Priest 1934, directed by John Ford and starring Will Rogers, was the first film in which she played a major role. She had a leading part in the film and demonstrated her singing talent, including a duet with Rogers. McDaniel and Rogers became friends during filming.
Around this time, she was criticized by members of the black community for the roles she accepted. For example, in The Little Colonel 1935, she played one of the black servants longing to return to the Old South. In RKO Pictures's Alice Adams McDaniel angered white Southern audiences, because she stole several scenes from the film's white star, Katharine Hepburn.
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe. Elon Musk
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. John James Audubon
While We Worried About COVID-19, EPA Was Busy
1. EPA Lets polluters police themselves, using the crisis as their excuse.
2. The administration rolled back Average Fuel Economy goals from 5% increase to 1.5 improvement goal for corporations .
3. Reducing standards for mercury and air toxic for power plants.
4. Amid the steep drop in oil prices caused by COVID-19, the EPA sold the right to drill for oil in 400,000 acres off shore in the Gulf of Mexico.
5. Giving money to oil companies for oil the country does not need.
Other EPA changes they thought you wouldn't notice
6. Replacing Clean Power Plan
7. Gutting the Clean Water Plan, and replacing it with a plan that would leave half the nation's water unprotected and unregulated.
8. Rolling back safeguards against coal ash.
9. Narrowing the kinds of projects which require environmental reviews according to the NEPA.
10. The EPA now limits which scientific studies they will publish in public health rules favoring industry studies over objective scientific research.
Taken from Sierra Club.
Hattie McDaniel
Denver East High School graduate in 1908, she is best known for her roles as Mammy in Gone With the Wind for which she was the first African American to win an Oscar. She won the Supporting Actress award 1939 for her role in Gone With the Wind. Most people do not know Hattie McDaniel appeared in over 300 films although she was given screen credits for only 83.
McDaniel was also a singer and made records for Okeh Records and Paramount Records. She also sang on KOA Denver Radio. Judge Priest 1934, directed by John Ford and starring Will Rogers, was the first film in which she played a major role. She had a leading part in the film and demonstrated her singing talent, including a duet with Rogers. McDaniel and Rogers became friends during filming.
Around this time, she was criticized by members of the black community for the roles she accepted. For example, in The Little Colonel 1935, she played one of the black servants longing to return to the Old South. In RKO Pictures's Alice Adams McDaniel angered white Southern audiences, because she stole several scenes from the film's white star, Katharine Hepburn.
She was married four times. Two husbands died at early ages. McDaniel died of breast cancer at age 59 on October 26, 1952, in the hospital on the grounds of the Motion Picture House in Woodland Hills, California.
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