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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/new-study-finds-republican-policies-lead-to-shorter-lives/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/new-study-finds-republican-policies-lead-to-shorter-lives/</a></font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">guys generally angry for a while at loss of status [but anger by ppl more generally to McC for no aid bill covid 3?]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/columnist-explains-how-the-rnc-dressed-up-the-fury-smoldering-at-the-center-of-the-populist-republican-party/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/columnist-explains-how-the-rnc-dressed-up-the-fury-smoldering-at-the-center-of-the-populist-republican-party/</font></a></div><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'d<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/deaths-of-despair-economists-work-reveals-the-grim-forces-preying-on-american-workers/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline !important;">eaths of despair’: Economists’ work reveals the grim forces preying on American workers</a></font></p><div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/alex-henderson/" title="Posts by Alex Henderson" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alex Henderson</font></a></span></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bashing European countries and their social and economic programs is a popular pastime among the “American exceptionalists” in right-wing media. But when economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton compare the…</font></p></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump's Coal Bailout Could Cause Spike in Deaths From Pollution</font></h1></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></span></font><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2584326441" data-authors="Climate Nexus" data-headline="Trump's Coal Bailout Could Cause Spike in Deaths From Pollution" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump</a> administration's plan to bail out <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/coal" style="text-decoration-line: none;">coal</a> and <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/nuclear" style="text-decoration-line: none;">nuclear</a> industries could cause one American death from pollution for every two to four additional coal jobs generated over the next two years, according to new research.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A <a href="http://www.rff.org/research/publications/retirements-and-funerals-emission-mortality-and-coal-mine-employment-effects?utm_source=Resources+for+the+Future&utm_campaign=528a7815f6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_05_05_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e896179bd7-528a7815f6-100114685" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">study</a> released Thursday from Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan think tank, finds that the plan could cause between 353 to 815 premature deaths between 2019 and 2020 while generating fewer than 800 coal jobs. The study also finds that the plan would increase CO2 emissions by 22 million tons, or roughly the same amount as 4.3 million additional cars on the road.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As reported by Bloomberg:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 25px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(82, 149, 70); padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although nuclear power does not generate carbon dioxide that drives climate change, burning coal does—and the possible federal intervention would boost those emissions by 22 million short tons over two years, the analysis finds.</font></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 25px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(82, 149, 70); padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 25px; margin-top: -1em !important; padding-top: 1em !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The administration is justifying its push to subsidize coal and nuclear power plants on national security grounds, with Trump touting coal as bomb proof during a visit to a West Virginia charity dinner on Tuesday. "You bomb a pipeline, that's the end of the pipeline," Trump said. "With coal, that stuff is indestructible."</font></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 25px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(82, 149, 70); padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 25px; margin-top: -1em !important; padding-top: 1em !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></blockquote></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There was a recent study done by a group called the Environment Protection Network, and they calculated that if this law had passed 20 years ago, approximately 50,000 Americans would have died each year in the past 20 years. So, if you add that up, it comes out to about<b> a million Americans could have died prematurely as the result of that bill.</b> So, when I said earlier that the ethical issues with Scott Pruitt are trivial compared to some of these bigger issues, this is what I’m referring to. A million Americans is important.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">AMY</span> <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> Mustafa Ali, some people have compared Andrew Wheeler to Vice President Pence, and Scott Pruitt to President Trump—President Trump with all of the scandal and the tweets and outrageousness, and then the one who is right there steadily enforcing all the policies right behind. Your thoughts, as we wrap up?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">MUSTAFA</span> <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">ALI</span>:</strong> Well, Andrew Wheeler is just as dangerous or more so than Scott Pruitt. Coming from the background that he comes from, the actions that he has taken directly impact the lives of communities across our country<b>. Over 200,000 people die prematurely from air pollution in our country every year.</b> So, if you are weakening air protection laws, then you are putting folks in danger<b>. Twenty-seven million people have asthma. Seven million children have asthma. So, again, these actions that they’re moving forward on are dangerous for the American public</b>.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><h1 class="headline" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">David Schiller and correspondent Bill Whitaker CBS NEWS</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">Schiller pointed out to us the $150 million fine was only about $50 million more than McKesson CEO, John Hammergren's compensation last year. He was the third-highest paid CEO in the country; only Tim Cook of Apple, and Reed Hastings of Netflix earned more. In the last earning period McKesson's revenues were up $8 billion. </font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">
</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">We wanted to speak to a McKesson representative on camera but they declined. But in a statement, McKesson said, "In the interest of moving beyond disagreements… The company agreed to settle with the DEA and DOJ." And McKesson promised to do a better job flagging suspicious orders.</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">
</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">We asked the DEA about allegations its attorneys went easy on McKesson. A spokesperson told us the agreement was a good deal; that the priority was to get McKesson to do the right thing going forward. And now an independent monitor has been put in place to watch McKesson more closely.</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">
</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">Maggie Hassan: The pharmaceutical industry is doing everything it can to keep this epidemic going.</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">
</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">Bill Whitaker: That's pretty strong.</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">
</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">Maggie Hassan: Yeah. It is.</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">
</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan has been critical of Congress for not aggressively investigating industry's role in this epidemic.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> New Hampshire has the second highest rate of drug overdose deaths in the country.</span></font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">
</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">Bill Whitaker: What more is it going to take to convince Congress to act?</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">
</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">Maggie Hassan: Well, one of the things we have to do is begin to hold the pharmaceutical companies accountable for this. And right now, when you see a fine for the McKesson Company of $150 million when they make a $100 million a week in profits, that isn't gonna do it.</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">
</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">Bill Whitaker: What incentive do they have to change their behavior?</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">
</font></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">Maggie Hassan: Well, right now, they don't have a lot of incentives and that's something that has to be changed. This in many ways reminds me of the situation with big tobacco-- and, you know, I think it's one of the reasons you see attorneys general around the country--beginning to file lawsuits against the pharmaceutical industry--to hold them accountable for the cost of this terrible epidemic.</font></p></h1></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div></div></div></div></div>