There is an International Space Station where live astronauts work. There is absolutely should never be a war in space that will lead to nothing but tragedy. The USA and Russia are guilty of breaking with the treaty that governs space.
March 26, 2020
By Amy Thompson
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) (click here) Atlas V rocket took to the skies Thursday afternoon (March 26), delivering a highly advanced communications satellite to orbit for the U.S. Space Force.
The rocket, outfitted with five strap-on solid rocket boosters, leapt off the pad from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station here at 4:18 p.m. EDT (2018 GMT), near the middle of a planned two-hour window....
July 23, 2020
By Loren Grush
The Department of Defense (click here) believes that Russia may have tested out a new technology in space that could be used to destroy other satellites already in orbit. This particular test didn’t destroy anything, but military officials are worried it could be used to target US satellites in the future.
On July 15th, a Russian satellite called Kosmos 2543 released an unknown object into orbit, according to US Space Command, which is responsible for tracking all the objects currently in orbit. The satellite released this mysterious object near another Russian satellite, though no pieces came in contact with one another. At the time of the test, the Russian Defense Ministry admitted that Kosmos 2543 was going to come close to a target satellite to do an inspection, but satellite trackers took notice of a new object appearing around the time the “inspection” took place....
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Remember the Obama plan called "Waters of the USA?" Trump wants to not only dump the program but endanger the lives of Americans besides.
The new EPA water program is not about clean water. Trump wants every company or farmer that needs to dump waste into rivers and streams to do so. THEN after the waters are polluted they are to be recycled for human use.
The program is called, "National Water Reuse Action Plan." It could be called, "Drink Your Own Piss."
On February 27, 2020, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler (click here) and other federal, state, and local water leaders announced the release of the National Water Reuse Action Plan: Collaborative Implementation (Version 1). Safe and reliable water supplies for human consumption, agriculture, business, industry, recreation, and healthy ecosystems are critical to our nation’s communities and economy. Water reuse can improve the security, sustainability, and resilience of our nation’s water resources, especially when considered at the watershed or basin scale....
So far 40 states are targeted for the program. The public input isn't widely advertised.
April 18, 2020
Contact Information:
EPA Press Office (press@epa.gov )
Washington - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (click here) is seeking public input on the development of an action plan to accelerate the application of water reuse as a safe, reliable, and sustainable way to meet the country’s current and future water demands.
“To meet the country’s most pressing water resources challenges, EPA recognizes the need for coordinated federal leadership,” said David Ross, U.S. EPA’s assistant administrator for the Office of Water. “Working with our federal partners, we are looking to tap the expertise of our nation’s farmers, utilities, industry, NGOs, scientists, and others to craft a Water Reuse Action Plan that helps our country better prepare for current and future water challenges and meet the water needs of generations to come.”...
EPA Regions to Facilitate Water Reuse (click here)
"Water reuse represents a major opportunity to support our nation’s communities and economy by bolstering safe and reliable water supplies for human consumption, agriculture, business, industry, recreation and healthy ecosystems.”
-EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler
The Basics (click here)
Water reuse (also commonly known as water recycling or water reclamation) reclaims water from a variety of sources then treats and reuses it for beneficial purposes such as agriculture and irrigation, potable water supplies, groundwater replenishment, industrial processes, and environmental restoration. Water reuse can provide alternatives to existing water supplies and be used to enhance water security, sustainability, and resilience.
Water reuse can be defined as planned or unplanned. Unplanned water reuse refers to situations in which a source of water is substantially composed of previously-used water. A common example of unplanned water reuse occurs when communities draw their water supplies from rivers, such as the Colorado River and the Mississippi River, that receive treated wastewater discharges from communities upstream.
Planned water reuse refers to water systems designed with the goal of beneficially reusing a recycled water supply. Often, communities will seek to optimize their overall water use by reusing water to the extent possible within the community, before the water is reintroduced to the environment. Examples of planned reuse include agricultural and landscape irrigation, industrial process water, potable water supplies, and groundwater supply management...,
I have been involved with conservation all my life and intensely involved in the past 21 years. Never once has anyone ever said, let's convert garbage into a benevolent method of refining water. Never once. It was always about making water safer and minimizing pollution into rivers and streams. This plan by the Trump Administration explains a lot about their agenda. DEREGULATION and reducing costs to increase profits.
This form of water reclamation is extremely expensive and requires far more regulation than anyone can imagine. There will be regulation after regulation and guess what will happen in the end? It will be scraped and the old methods will be pursued while seeking to improve water quality everywhere.
I got to hand it to Trump, he knows how to make things as bad as they can be to turn those that complain about costs and government into believers.
The program is called, "National Water Reuse Action Plan." It could be called, "Drink Your Own Piss."
On February 27, 2020, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler (click here) and other federal, state, and local water leaders announced the release of the National Water Reuse Action Plan: Collaborative Implementation (Version 1). Safe and reliable water supplies for human consumption, agriculture, business, industry, recreation, and healthy ecosystems are critical to our nation’s communities and economy. Water reuse can improve the security, sustainability, and resilience of our nation’s water resources, especially when considered at the watershed or basin scale....
So far 40 states are targeted for the program. The public input isn't widely advertised.
April 18, 2020
Contact Information:
EPA Press Office (press@epa.gov )
Washington - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (click here) is seeking public input on the development of an action plan to accelerate the application of water reuse as a safe, reliable, and sustainable way to meet the country’s current and future water demands.
“To meet the country’s most pressing water resources challenges, EPA recognizes the need for coordinated federal leadership,” said David Ross, U.S. EPA’s assistant administrator for the Office of Water. “Working with our federal partners, we are looking to tap the expertise of our nation’s farmers, utilities, industry, NGOs, scientists, and others to craft a Water Reuse Action Plan that helps our country better prepare for current and future water challenges and meet the water needs of generations to come.”...
EPA Regions to Facilitate Water Reuse (click here)
"Water reuse represents a major opportunity to support our nation’s communities and economy by bolstering safe and reliable water supplies for human consumption, agriculture, business, industry, recreation and healthy ecosystems.”
-EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler
The Basics (click here)
Water reuse (also commonly known as water recycling or water reclamation) reclaims water from a variety of sources then treats and reuses it for beneficial purposes such as agriculture and irrigation, potable water supplies, groundwater replenishment, industrial processes, and environmental restoration. Water reuse can provide alternatives to existing water supplies and be used to enhance water security, sustainability, and resilience.
Water reuse can be defined as planned or unplanned. Unplanned water reuse refers to situations in which a source of water is substantially composed of previously-used water. A common example of unplanned water reuse occurs when communities draw their water supplies from rivers, such as the Colorado River and the Mississippi River, that receive treated wastewater discharges from communities upstream.
Planned water reuse refers to water systems designed with the goal of beneficially reusing a recycled water supply. Often, communities will seek to optimize their overall water use by reusing water to the extent possible within the community, before the water is reintroduced to the environment. Examples of planned reuse include agricultural and landscape irrigation, industrial process water, potable water supplies, and groundwater supply management...,
I have been involved with conservation all my life and intensely involved in the past 21 years. Never once has anyone ever said, let's convert garbage into a benevolent method of refining water. Never once. It was always about making water safer and minimizing pollution into rivers and streams. This plan by the Trump Administration explains a lot about their agenda. DEREGULATION and reducing costs to increase profits.
This form of water reclamation is extremely expensive and requires far more regulation than anyone can imagine. There will be regulation after regulation and guess what will happen in the end? It will be scraped and the old methods will be pursued while seeking to improve water quality everywhere.
I got to hand it to Trump, he knows how to make things as bad as they can be to turn those that complain about costs and government into believers.
I think Mayor Wheeler taking up the challenge by local media to meet the protesters did the right thing.
I hope he understands their resolve to end abusive police practices and police brutality. Portland and every city across the country for that matter need to outlaw tear gas. Protesting is a legitimate way to bring attention to direly important issues.
July 23, 2020
By Anna Griffin, Dirk VanderHart and Rebecca Ellisa
Mayor Ted Wheeler moves through a crowd of people at a protest in Portland, Ore., July 22, 2020. People have protested police brutality and systemic racism for nearly two months straight and have called on the mayor to resign.
...Many of his remarks, (click here) delivered in the same stiff cadence he uses at City Council meetings, were drowned out by boos and insults. As Wheeler answered questions from protest leaders, someone dumped munitions used by police against the crowds at his feet. A list of demands projected on the wall above his head as he spoke concluded with a call for him to resign.
Wheeler showed no inclination to do that, and he provoked more boos each time he told questioners that he does not plan to hand over day-to-day oversight of the Portland Police Bureau to Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty as she has demanded.
Wheeler said repeatedly that he’d ventured downtown to listen, and he did plenty of that....
July 23, 2020By Anna Griffin, Dirk VanderHart and Rebecca Ellisa
Mayor Ted Wheeler moves through a crowd of people at a protest in Portland, Ore., July 22, 2020. People have protested police brutality and systemic racism for nearly two months straight and have called on the mayor to resign.
...Many of his remarks, (click here) delivered in the same stiff cadence he uses at City Council meetings, were drowned out by boos and insults. As Wheeler answered questions from protest leaders, someone dumped munitions used by police against the crowds at his feet. A list of demands projected on the wall above his head as he spoke concluded with a call for him to resign.
Wheeler showed no inclination to do that, and he provoked more boos each time he told questioners that he does not plan to hand over day-to-day oversight of the Portland Police Bureau to Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty as she has demanded.
Wheeler said repeatedly that he’d ventured downtown to listen, and he did plenty of that....
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