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From this: Engine manufacturer Cummins must pay the second largest environmental penalty in United States history: a whopping $1.6 billion to settle claims that it outfitted hundreds of thousands of trucks with software to defeat pollution controls.

Plug-In America co-founder Paul Scott writes:  Jennifer Rumsey is the CEO of Cummins. She’s been a high level member of management for over a decade and was intimately involved in this scheme to defraud California regulators and presumedly those in other states. While I appreciate that her company has been fined $1.6 billion, it is also a fact that the consequences of her crime involve more human deaths from the added diesel pollution. Seems she should spend time in prison for that.

As I noted repeatedly during the (extremely similar) VW emissions scandal, corporate malfeasance, while it isn’t brand new, continues to escalate as time passes.

When I was working as a business consultant a few decades ago, principally to the Fortune 100 tech companies, no-one would have dreamed suggesting a conspiracy to defraud government regulators, cheat customers, and endanger the health of everyone on Earth.  If someone had actually done so, he would have been fired immediately and escorted off the premise by security.

Times have changed, to put it kindly.

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The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation

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It’s a pleasure to see that Dr. Brian Cox has people so popular, having joined the ranks for Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, and a few others.  This phenomenon of celebrity physicists if one of very few bright spots in our modern world.

I would qualify what he says at left as follows: the only people who hate the economics here are those invested in fossil fuels.  Clean energy and transportation are already huge industries, and they’re growing at an amazing pace–even in the face of heavy suppression by Big Oil and Donald Trump.

The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation

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Trump Breaks the Law. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Are you saying that Trump is defying the law, as if this is news?

It happens almost every day.

Trump Breaks the Law. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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There Are Legitimate and Illegitimate Reasons to Shift One’s Political Views

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Most people change their political ideologies as they go through life, experience new things, and continue to learn.  This is natural, and the vast majority of these folks are perfectly honest and sincere.

On the other hand, there are people like JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, and, of course, Donald Trump, who are simply opportunists.  They would try to convince you that day is night if they thought it would further their careers.

They count on Americans to accept things like the following:  Last June, we obliterated Iran’s nuclear weapons capability.  Now we have to re-obliterate it.

There is a huge audience of American fools who are thinking: makes perfect sense to me! When we get finished with this war, we’re gonna  f*** it up again!

Within the realm of political punditry, I’ve always wondered if people like Rush Limbaugh actually believe what he told their wildly receptive American audience.  Is he really a hateful moron, or was he, just like the televangelists, just another career actor, looting the bank accounts of our nation’s idiots?

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