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At Smart Dissent, we are endlessly trying to keep up with the Republican destruction of our government that will never make headlines. These are NOT minor things; they have significant impacts on large amounts of the population. The distractions of a criminally corrupt Trump administration is making it impossible for almost anyone to know about things like this post.
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Since minute one, Trump's Republican administration has been focused on expanding oil, gas and coal development and sweeping away Obama-era environmental initiatives that the administration contends hurt America’s energy industry. It continues and receives zero coverage.
The Trump administration is aggressively pressing ahead in expanding federal oil and gas industry leases that could lead to more drilling on land and at sea, defying an assessment by government scientists that the production and use of fossil fuels is accelerating climate change.
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In Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series, we are detailing as many of the White House proposed budget cuts as we can keep up with. We seek to learn and share what's hidden beneath the surface which are so many programs, facilities, and people that don't receive proper headlines and focus.
Since Trump and his cronies aiming for societal destruction released the White House 2020 budget earlier in March, we've been reviewing numerous details we'll discuss in the coming weeks. First up are savage proposed cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Elections have consequences. We often say or read this in imploring people to vote or we end up with Trump and his like. In this case, let's make it a positive for once. The 2018 Blue Wave, the largest midterm House victory in history, means House Democrats will be introducing and passing legislation that American wants and needs. We need to give these efforts the publicity and megaphone they deserve.
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The water at or around at least 126 military installations contains potentially harmful levels of chemicals, which have been linked to cancers and developmental delays for fetuses and infants. These included 36 sites with drinking water contamination on-base, and more than 90 sites that reported either on-base or off-base drinking water or groundwater contamination.