Secretary Perdue Statement on President Trump’s Ethanol Announcement
(Washington, DC – October 9, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today hailed President Trump’s directive to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to begin a rulemaking process to expand the sale of corn ethanol, to include E15 year-round. Perdue issued the following statement:
“This is another case of ‘Promises Made, Promises Kept’ for President Trump. Expanding the sale of E15 year-round is sound policy for a variety of reasons. Consumers will have more choices when they fill up at the pump, including environmentally friendly fuel with decreased emissions. It is also an excellent way to use our high corn productivity and improved yields. Year-round sale of E15 will increase demand for corn, which is obviously good for growers. This has been a years-long fight and is another victory for our farm and rural economies. Along with E15 expansion, we also welcome much-needed reforms to the RIN market, which will also increase transparency.
“President Trump has again made it abundantly clear that he is unleashing the full potential of American energy production as we retake our rightful place as the world’s leader. I thank President Trump for his steadfast support of E15 expansion, while also acknowledging the close working relationship we’ve developed with Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. I look forward to working with the EPA to see rulemaking and year-round E15 completed by the driving season of 2019.”
=====================
UNWILL
Premieres New Single
"Keep It Gold"
Sophomore Album
Can't Kill Me
Out on November 16th, 2018
Previously Featured on Loudwire, New Noise Magazine,
PureGrainAudio, and more
October 9, 2018 - Rochester, NY - Rock and roll trio Unwill is thrilled to share their growling new single, "Keep It Gold." Fans can check out the music video now, streaming exclusively via Alternative Press. "Keep It Gold" comes from the band's forthcoming sophomore record, Can't Kill Me, which is set to be released on November 16th, 2018.For more information, please visit: www.unwillband.com.
On the new single, the band shares: " Rock 'n' roll is alive and well."
Formed in Rochester in 2015, Unwill signed with Entertainment One shortly after. Since then, Unwill has shared the stage with letlive., Vanna, He Is Legend, Norma Jean, and Ghost Key, as well as performing at select dates of the 2016 Vans Warped Tour.
They released their debut album Past Life in 2017, which garnered praise from Loudwire, New Noise Magazine, and PureGrainAudio, amongst others. Now Unwill is back and preparing to self-release their sophomore record, Can't Kill Me, on November 16th, 2018.
Unwill is Roc Tracy (vocals), Ethan James (guitar), and Jeffrey Jean (bass).
For more information:
Website: www.unwillband.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/unwillband
Twitter: www.twitter.com/unwillband
Instagram: www.instagram.com/unwillband
Youtube: www.youtube.com/unwillband
Can't Kill Me Track Listing:
1. Keep It Gold
2. Big Dog
3. Getaway
4. Fault
5. The Circus
6. Intention
7. Slaves
8. Say What?
9. I'll Be Damned
======================
Suggested subheadline: Hurricanes: it is Time to Rethink Disasters
By Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris
The devastation caused by last month’s Hurricane Florence and related tornadoes are certainly appalling, and condolences are in order. However, seen in a long-term perspective, what humans define as disasters are an opportunity for improvement, just like in nature.
We must rethink disasters and reduce risk as much as reasonably possible but also recognize that they are opportunities to rebuild with better materials, new ideas, and improved planning. People go to London, England and marvel at the remarkable urban planning of streets and Georgian architecture. All of that happened only because of the Great Fire of London in 1666.
It is a world full of risk, yet many environmentalists and promoters of human-caused global warming apparently want people to believe that it is naturally a no-risk world. They want people to accept that the risk exists only because of human activity. The illogic of this is that it implies that there was no risk before humans appeared. It is implied in the deep-rooted anti-human belief at the core of the more extreme elements of the environmental movement.
Yet, it is the presence of humans that define a natural event as a disaster. However, the global warming debate has become so distorted that most people do not understand that hurricanes and tornados are normal events and recent climate change is modest and well within natural variability.
To illustrate how this has come about, consider the September 23rd ABC News report, just days after Florence, which starts:
With global temperatures rising, superstorms taking their deadly toll and a year-end deadline to firm up the Paris climate deal, leaders at this year's U.N. General Assembly are feeling a sense of urgency to keep up the momentum on combating climate change.
Global temperatures are not rising. There are no superstorms, and the human toll is not deadlier. Costs, which are part of the toll, increased because of insurance, government, and exploitation. These claims are a sign of desperation as the climate change movement loses momentum. After all, very few countries are meeting their political and financial commitments to the Paris Agreement and the Green Climate Fund.
The only real urgency is for those who demand climate action, since the public is apparently losing interest. Gallup doesn’t even list climate as a separate concern in its July 2018 US poll, lumping it in with other issues in the general “Environment/Pollution” category which garnered only 2% of those polled saying it is “the most important problem facing this country today.” And, according to the UN’s worldwide poll of 10 million people, “action taken on climate change” ranks last out of the 16 priorities suggested by the agency.
The environmental movement was originally a necessary paradigm shift when it started in the 1960s. Everybody knew it makes sense not to soil our nest but it went too far. In order to promote the alarm of human-caused change, they take normal events and present them as abnormal or unnatural.
The story of Hurricane Florence underscores the degree of corruption of natural events for a political agenda. All the players, from the bureaucrats at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, through many in the press, and the historical role of insurance companies, created misinformation, misused and omitted data, to distort the reality. They took an event that was well within the norm in the historical record, and turned it into a never-before-seen monster. In reality, the impact of Florence was below the normal for long-term averages of hurricanes in this region.
Instead of accepting that extreme weather events are worsening due to human influence (it is not), the public need to demand proper answers to real world questions. Are building codes adequate for regions that experience extreme weather events? Why are not more electrical systems buried underground? Why isn’t the long-term goal to create an infrastructure that reflects the risk factors of the region? The cost may be higher initially, but cheaper than the repair, not to mention the loss of lives, property, stress, and misery.
Of course, the answer is simple. The planning horizon is defined by the average length of time in office for politicians.
_______________________________________________________
Dr. Tim Ball is an environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba. Tom Harris is executive director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition.
