EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regs Wrote Oil Industry Argument Against Them
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc
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Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.
Wealth's Grip: The Echo Chamber of Power in American Politics
How billionaires are changing their political support to the Republican party. Find out why tax cuts and deregulation are key factors. Learn what this means for US politics.
#BillionairePolitics, #RepublicanParty, #TaxCuts, #Deregulation, #USPolitics
https://newsletter.tf/billionaires-shift-republican-party-tax-deregulation/
More billionaires are giving money to the Republican party. This is a big change from before and shows how money can influence politics.
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https://newsletter.tf/billionaires-shift-republican-party-tax-deregulation/
Where do the EU deregulation laws come from? From extensive talks between the European Commission and business groups, often in opaque new types of dialogue, according to the report “This is what corporate capture looks like!”
Today, whilst we were nervously looking at the #Chatcontrol vote, they pushed through more #deregulation that weakens #GDPR and privacy: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260323IPR38829/artificial-intelligence-act-delayed-application-ban-on-nudifier-apps
They pushed through delayed compliance for high risk AI systems and ding ding ding "...allowing service providers to process personal data to detect and..." under the fear of AI "Nudifiers".
The same old strategy, hide the trojan horse under threats of imminent catastrophe and moral outrage.
“[UK Green Party leader] Zack Polanski delivers his first major economic speech”
by James Wright in The Canary
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“Green party leader Zack Polanski delivered his first economic speech to the New Economics Foundation on 19 March. Polanski’s diagnosis of the issues with the UK were #privatisation, #deregulation and the excesses of the rentier class. His solutions included #nationalisation of #water, #rent #controls and #wealth #taxes”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026/03/21/zack-polanski-delivers-his/
In addition to the #deregulation of plants derived from #newgeneticengineering (#NGTs), the @EUCommission is already planning to lower the #safetystandards for #geneticallyengineered microorganisms (#GMMOs).
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