From 2012.
This seemed clever in 2010.
Today, it’s illegal to manufacture 100-watt incandescent light bulbs in the USA.
Here is what we are now facing.
In its Environmental Justice Strategy document, the DHS says the idea is to “include environmental justice practices in our larger mission efforts involving federal law enforcement and emergency response activities” and to incorporate environmental justice in “securing the homeland”.The DHS sees its role in promoting “environmental justice” as not just limited to overseeing reviews of its own operations, but also “through regulatory permitting activities” in conjunction with state, local and tribal governments.
It’s not just the Department of Homeland Security. The TSA will be involved. So will FEMA. So will the Secret Service. (The Secret Service has previously been used only to protect the President and to enforce laws against counterfeiting.) All told, 11 agencies will be involved.
The DHS’ environmental justice strategy follows calls by Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano for the federal agency to start battling “climate change” as a national security issue.
The government is making good use of the public’s fear of man-made global warming, for which there is no evidence, to tighten the screws on our freedoms.
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Published April 16, 2012. The original is here.
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