07 April, 2021 – Episode 819 – What Should You Know About Beavers?

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Disclaimer, Disclaimer, Disclaimer!!!

For the past four years the Environmental Protection Agency

has been the worst enemy of, well….

The environment.

Denial of global warming,

Mass purges of research scientists,

repeals of land, air, and water pollution regulations,

Abandonment of federally protected nature areas,

An odd attempt to get the auto industry to abandon their investments in cleaner emissions…

Then, when many auto companies rejected the plan,

announcing they would stick to the higher standard California regulations…

They were investigated by the department of justice under antitrust laws…

because not giving people an option to pollute more toxic exhaust out of their tailpipes

is exactly what antitrust laws are for…

Only, no, that’s not what antitrust laws are for,

and so yes, the investigation went nowhere…

But yes, the auto industry was investigated by the US federal government ...