Just as global warming appears to be reaching a dangerous new phase, Donald Trump has begun dismantling what little climate protections we do have.

He's calling it a win for workers.

But who's really going to come out on top?

West Virginia miners or the coal barons who've robbed their state blind?

Yesterday Donald Trump announced a new executive order gutting President Obama's climate change legacy.

As expected, the order lifts a moratorium on federal coal leases.

It also calls for a review of the Clean Power Plan, which would have cut toxic C02 emissions by 32 percent.

Speaking at the White House, Trump portrayed this all as a big win for miners.

"I made them this promise: we will put our miners back to work... Today, I'm taking bold action to follow through on that promise. My administration is putting an end to the war on coal. We'll have clean coal -- really clean coal."

Those mining jobs are not coming back, automation and natural gas have made sure of that. All this is going to do is slightly slow down the inevitable death of the coal industry. So why are we endangering the future of the planet just to pad the pockets of a few coal barons?

-Thom

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Wednesday's Daily Stack 

Hour One: Issues Of The Day And Your Calls
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)    

Video: Magic Mondays: The Truth about #Trumpcare.

Article: "Trump's Health & Human Services director faces bipartisan blowback over medical research cuts " (Tom Price) by Cameron Joseph.

Article: "Devin Nunes Vows To 'Never' Reveal Source Of Surveillance Claims" by Michael McLaughlin.

Article: "Devin Nunes Met Source On White House Grounds Day Before Claiming Trump Team Was Surveilled" by Jessica Schulberg.

Article: "Was The National Enquirer The 'Source' For Devin Nunes's Claim That Trump Was Surveilled?" by Terry Connelly.

Article: "Chairman Nunes: Recuse Thyself" by Joe Peyronnin.

Bill: "H.J.Res.86 - Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to "Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services"." by Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7].

Article: "House Republicans are about to let ISPs sell your browsing history to advertisers" by Timothy B. Lee.

Article: "Marco Rubio Quietly Undermines Affordable Care Act" by Robert Pear.

Article: "Explaining 'Risk Corridors,' The Next Obamacare Issue" by Louise Radnofsky and Jennifer Corbett Dooren, Jan 22, 2014.

Site: Yes California (#Calexit).

Article: "Robert M. La Follette Sr." ("Fighting Bob") by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bernie Sanders To Introduce Single-Payer Health Care Bill In U.S. Senate" by Peter Hirschfeld.

Article: "Tommy Douglas" (father of Canadian Healthcare) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Devin Nunes Votes To Allow Corporate Spying On Americans While Complaining Donald Trump Needs More Privacy" by Peregrin Wood.

gofundme: "Buy Congress' Internet Data".

Article: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters" (Crosscheck) by Greg Palast, August 24, 2016.

Article: "New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage" by David Cecere.

Article: "Pension funds for nearly 1 million workers are on verge of collapse" by Brian Williams.

Article: "How the fiduciary rule works" by Sharon Epperson.

Hour Two: Why the debate over financial reform is bogus
- Charles Sauer, The Market Institute    

Article: "We've Been Measuring Inequality Wrong" by Alan Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff.

Article: "Parable of the broken window" by Frédéric Bastiat.

Video: Robert F. Kennedy challenges Gross Domestic Product.

Book: "The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger" by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett.

Article: "Why Inequality Matters" by My Fair London in association with The Equality Trust.

Site: "The Equality Trust".

 

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution"

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "Texas Senate Passes Bill Allowing OBs To Keep Info From Pregnant Women" by Catherine Pearson.

Article: "What Does the Bible Really Say About Abortion?" by Dr. Joel Hoffman.

Article: "Sword Killer Came to NYC to Attack Black People: NYPD" by NBC 4 New York.

Article: "After Apology, Bill O'Reilly Continues Attacks on Maxine Waters" by Sopan Deb.

Tweet: ".@oreillyfactor can kiss my black ass...every fucking inch of it." by Joe Madison.

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Patrick Gavin 

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Article: "Ryan reverses course, will continue Obamacare repeal and replace effort" by John Parkinson.

Quote: "The United States could well declare unilaterally ... that we have 'won' in the sense that our armed forces are in control of most of the field and no potential enemy is in a position to establish its authority over South Vietnam," and that such a declaration "would herald the resumption of political warfare as the dominant theme in Vietnam" - George Aiken (U.S. should declare victory and bring the troops home).

Article: "McConnell: Full Senate vote on Gorsuch on April 7" by Ted Barrett and Ashley Killough.

Article: "Trump Orders Review of Emissions Rules, Paris Agreement Fate Uncertain" by Jack Fitzpatrick.

Article: "Exxon urges Trump to keep US in Paris climate accord" by Ed Crooks.

Article: "Trump's Defense Secretary Cites Climate Change as National Security Challenge" by Andrew Revkin.

Hour Three: Return of the Majority: A Roadmap for Taking Back Our Country
- Steve Phillips, Democracy in Color/Brown is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority      

Article: "Return of the Majority Roadmap" by Democracy in Color.

Article: "Supporting the ACLU, one coffee at a time" by Bailey Loosemore.

Article: "Fifty-state strategy" by Wikipedia.

 

Article: "Terrorism in China" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "Crisis of Confidence" by Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979.

Article: "This is important: Nunes talked to Ryan before Trump, then changed his story- to protect Ryan?" by Amaryllis.

Article: "The Great Mandate" by Bob Dunsmore.

Video: President Jimmy Carter: Bush Didn't Win in 2000.

Article: "Five Creepy Things Your ISP Could Do if Congress Repeals the FCC's Privacy Protections" by Jeremy Gillula.

Article: "Clinton health care plan of 1993" by Wikipedia.

Site: "The No Billionaires Campaign".

Article: Tax Cuts: The B.S. and the Facts by Larry Beinhart. Large income tax cuts are followed by a bubble and then a crash.

Article: "Lawrence O'Donnell: Paul Ryan Told Devin Nunes to Take "Incidentally Collected Information" To Trump" by durrati.

Article: "President Trump tells the FEC he qualifies as a candidate for 2020" by Matea Gold.

Article: "President Trump declines to throw ceremonial first pitch" by AJC Sports.

Article: "Sophia Tesfaye" by Danger, Yogi: Republicans intentionally make it legal to hunt hibernating animals.

Article: "Anne Gorsuch Burford" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Utah votes to sue over federal control of public lands" by AP.

Article: "Utah Republicans look to rescind status of new 'Bears Ears' national monument" by Jim Carlton.

Video: Gorsuch Nomination Hearing -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse opening statement.

Article: "Perez asks DNC staffers to resign" by Bryan Renbaum.

Site: Rob Quist for Montana.

Bill: "Florida CS/SB 120: Offenses by Aliens Unlawfully Present in the United States".

Bill: "Florida SB 786: Federal Immigration Enforcement".

Article: "Ontario Power Generation stands by plan to bury nuclear waste near Lake Huron" by John Flesher.

Article: "Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository" by Wikipedia.

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I'll be talking to journalist Michael Corcoran about "The DLC Lives: "Third Way" Democrats Are Trying To Push The Party Rightward".

 

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