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On Tuesday, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm suggested that climate change could have played a key role in the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla. A conservative climate expert mocked the idea as “utterly ridiculous,” especially considering the engineer report that exposed structural weaknesses in the building years before the collapse.
At least 16 people are dead and 147 more are still missing nearly a week after the collapse last Thursday. Back in 2018, an engineer warned of “major structural damage” to the concrete slab below the pool deck and highlighted “abundant” cracking in supporting columns.
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On Wednesday, President Joe Biden gave his first address to Congress. He touted his COVID-19 “relief” bill and urged Congress to pass his “infrastructure” bill, the union giveaway PRO Act, the anti-Christian Equality Act, and his new American Families Plan.
Biden framed his agenda in terms of jobs and helping the middle class, but his bills represent a far-left giveaway to Democratic constituencies and they’d cost far more than Biden plans to raise in new taxes supposedly only for people who make $400,000 or more.
1. “Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!”
Biden cunningly framed his agenda in terms of jobs “rebuilding” America. He even characterized the increased regulations on cheap and effective forms of energy as a jobs program.
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Last week, ten Republican attorneys general sued to block President Joe Biden’s executive order resurrecting former President Barack Obama’s attempt to insert climate alarmism into the federal government’s cost-benefit analysis. Since federal agencies are required to calculate the cost and benefit of regulations, Obama ordered a working group to calculate the “social cost of carbon” and shoehorn a climate alarmist perspective into the heart of the bureaucratic state.
“This ‘social cost’ overreach revives an Obama-era scheme that unnecessarily forces the monetary cost of a global issue on American governments, businesses and families,” Attorney General Jeff Landry (R-La.) said in a statement on the lawsuit, filed on April 22, 2021.