The Matrix somehow dodging all the bullets in this thread is fitting
There are two wolves inside of me
Scientist: "The life form appears to be... noodle based sir."
General: "Holy Macaroni."
and
A bartender, a line chef, and a bomb disposal tech are in a car. A drunk driver t bones them and causes significant injury to all three.
And what does some random painter have to do with anything
It is if you're a pig apparently
Also, let's not forget them also lying to investigators after initially being caught doing this (they said they thought they were following department policies, but they were using Signal to coordinate with ICE instead of their department emails because they knew they weren't). These guys really shouldn't be trusted to work in any police department ever again, but they'll be back on the beat before schools are back in session.
Also, par for the course when you build your whole economy around an extractive industry with no thought about what comes after (see also; basically all of West Virginia)
Click bait sucks, but just complaining about it doesn't do anything to help anyone, we can all (presumably) read the headline and see what you're seeing
I think it would have been really hard to get all the nuance here down to a single headline sentence,
...representatives of at least 15 coal-burning power plants, four steel mills, four chemical facilities and two mines wrote emails to the E.P.A. this spring, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
All 15 coal plants were ultimately exempted from requirements to curb several hazardous air pollutants, including mercury, a neurotoxin that can cause developmental problems in infants and children. All four chemical facilities were exempted from restrictions on other harmful air pollutants, including ethylene oxide, a gas linked to several types of cancer.
Those email exemptions were part of a broader wave of more than 100 granted so far by the Trump administration to facilities across the country, including oil refineries and sites that process a type of iron ore. The exemptions apply to rules that were set to take effect in the coming years.
Some named companies here,
The Tennessee Valley Authority, the country’s largest federally owned utility, successfully sought two-year exemptions from the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for three coal plants in Tennessee and one coal plant in Kentucky, according to the documents obtained by the Sierra Club.
Alabama Power’s James H. Miller Jr. Electric Generating Plant in Jefferson, Ala., also successfully sought an exemption from the stricter mercury rule.
The documents also show that Eastman Chemical Company, a global chemical manufacturer, requested and received an exemption from the limits on ethylene oxide emissions for its facility in Longview, Texas.
U.S. Steel, which was acquired by Japan’s Nippon Steel last month, had mixed results in its quest for regulatory relief.
While the documents show that Citgo Petroleum Corporation and Phillips 66 requested exemptions for some oil refineries, they do not reveal the names of the facilities.
With as much spyware garbage and paywall nonsense and other anti-reader practices as these media companies engage in, I'm really sympathetic to someone offended by being asked to click on the basis of "just trust us, the information we're vaguely promising up here is somewhere in this article"
which Brussels conceded it has no power to control
Bullshit, you just said a quiet part out loud and now you're trying to sweep it back under the rug but you absolutely have soft and hard powers to incentivize these companies to do what you want, you just don't want to admit it because you'll face uncomfortable questions about why you never seem to pressure these companies into serving the general public and this kind of thing only happens when rich people's yacht money is at stake
No, it's supposed to a "three similar archetypes walk into a bar and one up each other" type joke setup with an anti-joke punchline and a little anti-car agit-prop thrown in for good measure