Trump's USMCA is a direct threat to Earth's Ozone Layer as well as the Climate Crisis.

January 14, 2020

Sen. Tom Carper (click here) gave the opening statement at the to consider H.R. 5430, United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act....

...“It is no surprise that I, and many Democrats and a growing number of Republicans, too, think that we need to act with a sense of urgency to address climate change,” said Carper. “It’s just been reported that our planet experienced its second-hottest year on record in 2019. The last decade was the hottest decade in the history of our planet. Australia is on fire, the Arctic is melting and our seas are rising. If we were only measuring the new NAFTA by what it does to address climate change, it doesn’t work. Plain and simple.”

“The new NAFTA fails to recommit the United States to the Paris Agreement,” said Carper. “It continues to give special treatment to fossil fuel interests. It fails to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, (click here) which could bring the global community together to reduce the use of HFCs and avoid up to a half degree Celsius in global warming by the end of the century. And like so many of the Trump administration’s proposals, the new NAFTA fails to even mention the words ‘climate change.’”

“With these major deficiencies on the climate front, the new NAFTA’s environment chapter cannot be a considered a template for future trade negotiations,” said Carper....

Barrasso (click here)

This environmental assault makes no sense at all. These chemicals are 1000 X more toxic to Earth's Ozone Layer.

Barasso should never be allowed in the US Senate again. He is allowing a disaster to occur.

The Kigali Amendment is a bonus to the business sector and yet there is no government ratification of this vital amendment to the Montreal Protocol.

November 18, 2018
By David Jenkins

Although he rarely gets the credit he deserves, (click here) President Ronald Reagan is responsible for pushing through the most successful environmental treaty of all time. That 1987 treaty, the Montreal Protocol, began phasing out the production and use of ozone-depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which were harming our life-sustaining atmosphere....

...That is great news. However, another family of substances have been found to harm the atmosphere. Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which have replaced CFC-based refrigerants, are potent greenhouse gases — over a thousand times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Fortunately, American manufacturers saw this coming. They have invested hundreds of millions of dollars to develop next-generation replacements that protect the ozone layer without warming our climate.

In 2016, this advance prompted the U.S. and other signatories of the protocol to draft and approve the Kigali Amendment, which will phase out HFCs over time and open the market to these improved replacements. That global market for products using these compounds is projected to surpass $1 trillion over the next decade.

By ratifying the Kigali Amendment, the U.S. can give American companies a market advantage, and enable U.S. technology to lead this global transition. Ratification is all the more critical because companies from Asia and Europe want to develop and push their own technologies....

October 6, 2019
By Alec Johnson

This may be seen as a tired subject (click here) by now but over the past few months additional counties have come forward and ratified the Kigali Amendment. So far this month New Zealand and Mauritius have both ratified the document. The month before in September we saw Vietnam and Bhutan commit to the amendment.

For those of you who do not know, the Kigali Amendment is an addendum to the original Montreal Protocol that we all know so well. While the goal of the Montreal Protocol was to phase out Ozone damaging substances such as CFC and HCFCs the Kigali Amendment focuses instead on HFC refrigerants. This would include your R-404A, R-410A, R-134a, and others. Instead of the focus being on Ozone depletion we now look at Global Warming Potential....

Moscow Mitch lives in a "let's pretend" world.

I believe Speaker Pelosi is correct in asking the US House to release the Articles of Impeachment of Donald John Trump. There are esteemed people that want to be heard by the US Senate. I am confident the US House is just as interested in hearing from them since they were prohibited by the president to give testimony to the US House. So, let's not get the artificial idea the US House has it in for the Republican US Senate. That is not the case at all. The US House acted on Articles of Impeachment with the information they were able to accumulate.

Article II of the Impeachment proceedings is obstruction of justice. That itself indicates clearly the US House was between a rock and a hard place to attempt to find the truth.

I think the impeachment trial in the US Senate provides an opportunity to understand the US Constitution better and it's power that states no American is above the law.

Moscow Mitvch of the US Senate seems to live in a let's pretend world. He wants to believe the US House has some sort of deranged procedure to make a stab at putting together articles of impeachment of Donald J. Trump. The US House has worked very hard at coming up with these articles of impeachment following the intimidation of a foreign president to contribute to Trump's re-election by creating a 'let's pretend' Joe Biden and Hunter Biden are the most wanted criminal in the world. 

These articles of impeachment are not occurring in a sterile environment. The events that have occurred since the articles were voted on by the US House only sustains and enforces them. We have witnessed a USA president assassinate to generals of a sovereign country. Is every country in the world Trump's playground for whatever purpose he chooses? There have been significant persons that love this country coming forward with a need to contribute to the understanding the lawlessness of the Trump administration. At least that is what they intend to talk about. There are more and more problems with this administration just in the short time since the Articles of Impeachment were passed. Moscow Mitch needs to realize the soil under his feet belongs to a country that exists because of the brevity of law as weighed by the truth.

The future is not set. I believe the hearing in the US Senate is very important and it has to weigh all the evidence and testimony. This will prove if Moscow Mitch actually has divided loyalties and whether or not he puts the US Constitution first. His recent grandstanding on the US Senate floor would indicate he isn't a friend or loyalist to the Rule of Law, the US Constitution or the absolute truth before the country.

This is not about politics. It is about the country. Impeachment is not about politics, it is about the Rule of Law and how it must be followed by the Executive Branch. This is about the laws of the USA. There is no room for glibness in honoring the power of the US Constitution. It is the first law of the USA. The USA Constitution is not a political document.


January 13, 2020
By Jonathan Turley

With an impeachment trial (click here) likely to start next week, the Senate (and the country) will soon be faced with what the late Yale professor Arthur Leff described as one of the law’s most “lovely, knotty problems.”

Leff was speaking of what is loosely called “the law of attempts,” a category of crimes where someone is accused of contemplating, but not actually carrying out, an unlawful act. The Trump trial could be the first time the Senate considers charges that amount to allegedly conceiving, but then abandoning, an abuse of power. While it is certainly true that there was a temporary act of “nonfeasance” in withholding the aid to Ukraine, it was ultimately released over two weeks before the deadline under federal law....