Scott Pruitt Just Gutted Rules To Fight The Nation’s ‘Second Biggest Toxic Pollution Threat’

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Scott Pruitt Just Gutted Rules To Fight The Nation’s ‘Second Biggest Toxic Pollution Threat’

So now you know, it's healthier to smoke a pack a day then live near a coal plant. Who knew smoking was so healthy?

"Living within a mile of a wet coal ash storage pond poses a greater health threat than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, raising the risk of cancer to one in 50, an EPA study from 2010 found. Children are particularly at risk of learning disabilities, birth defects, asthma and cancer, with 1.54 million living near such storage sites, according to EPA data cited by the Sierra Club."

March 3, 2018 Morning

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Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend! Two weeks to Saint Patricks Day ☘️. Mostly cloudy and 38 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a north-northwest breeze at 14 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 4 am. ☃️

🌹🌻🌼Only 17 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

Today will be mostly cloudy, with a high of 41 degrees at 1pm. ☁Two degrees above normal. North wind 14 to 16 mph. ☁A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies with more clouds in the afternoon. The high last year was 35 degrees. The record high of 64 was set in 2002. 10.9 inches of snow fell back in 1994.❄

The sun will set at 5:48 pm with dusk around 6:16 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly cloudy conditions and 39 degrees.☁ There will be a north-northwest breeze at 15 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 22 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low of 32 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees above normal. North wind 8 to 13 mph. ☁In 2017, we had light snow in the evening with a few breaks in clouds by early morning. It got down to 8 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1950.

Back in 1972, an airplane crashes in suburban Albany, off Holmesdale Ave in Albany (near Colvin Avenue and Washington Ave). Regional Carrier, Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures. ✈🏡Also today in 1873, U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” books through the mail.📚 And in 1991, an amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.🚔

Kind of a cloudy day with the snow melting away to mud. Going to dig out my truck later and then head out to the grocery store🚗, probably after dark in case I don’t get all of the snow brushed off. ❄

I am glad that I finally figured out how to reliably write a variety of data structures to the 24LC256 chip, 💻 and import data to the chip using the command line including full text files. Still need to implement page write for faster writing but I think now I’ve gotten over the hurtle. Plus I figured a lot about using pointers and type conversations along with the use of structures. Still need to refresh my memory on how to build character arrays that scale up properly.

Tomorrow still looks good for skiing, 🏂assuming I can get my truck dug out. But that will happen. Hoping the snow won’t last as especially once April comes around I want to get truck cap camping. Daylight savings time starts next Sunday.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Saint Patricks Day ☘️ when the sun will be setting at 7:04 pm with dusk at 7:32 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2017, we had sunny skies and temperatures between 40 and 16 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 45 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1990.