NY Environmentalists’ Next Target? Individually Wrapped Cheese Slices Face Ban Under Far-Reaching Bill
nypost.com | April 21, 2024 | Carl Campanile

(Ask not for whom the bell tolls, Carl…)

Individually wrapped cheese would be largely banned under a far-reaching bill getting pushed by New York environmentalists and politicians to reduce the use of plastics, The Post has learned.

What if I want to put some cheese in a lunch bag for use later without getting damaged? I have to use the more-plastic Tupperware? Or Zip-Lok bags??

The following name of the bill, as always, is the opposite of its consequences:

The state bill — called Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act — would require companies with net incomes over $1 million who sell or distribute food or products to reduce plastics and other packaging that ends in landfills or waterways by 50% over the next 12 years.

Now, wait a second. How does a company that packages food acquire the ability to limit the amount of packaging discarded in waterways? Will they be given badges and guns and ATVs? Miami Vice speedboats?

It would also impose a fee on companies that use plastic packages, with money going toward recycling programs and infrastructure. 

Name a company that does not use plastic packages.

And the money will “go toward” . . . but will never quite get there. As the money from tolls goes toward paying for highway repairs. We should have streets of gold by now.

“This legislation shifts the onus of recycling from municipalities and ensures that producers of products are serving our interests by establishing solutions to sustainable packaging,” Sen. Peter Harckham (D-Peekskill) said in a memo promoting the bill.

He sounds like a cat’s hairball.

The typical New Yorker creates nearly 5 pounds of trash every day, …

… whereas the typical New Yorker article …

… which means the state produces approximately 15 million tons of waste each year, according to Harckham,

Gesundheit

… who introduced the measure along with Assemblywoman Deborah Glick (D-Manhattan).

“This waste primarily goes to landfills and incinerators, but can often end up in our water, natural habitats, and municipal spaces,” the memo said.

Four states have implemented similar programs — Maine, Oregon, Colorado and California.

One leading environmentalist backing the bill confirmed that the goal is to eliminate single slices of cheese packaged in non-reusable plastic,

It’s already reusable. But it’s not like any sane person is going to use it for toilet paper or whatever.

… as well as other wasteful packaging.

“We have to do something about the plastic crisis,” said Judith Enck, president of the group Beyond Plastics.

Oh, I’d love to evaluate her possessions and the products she uses…

Just tell them that The Plastic Crisis ™ exactly offsets Global Warming.

2024 Graduate: “Anti-Plastics.”

I don’t fly much, but when I do, I want my pilot to be called Pilar Arias.

Swiss Air flight takeoff from NYC to Zurich aborted after 4 jets cleared to cross runway: report
FOX Business | April 23, 2024 | Pilar Arias

Swiss Air flight aborts takeoff from JFK, safely leaves minutes later…

A Swiss Air flight traveling from New York City to Zurich last week had to abort takeoff, averting a “potentially dangerous situation,” the airline confirmed.

Flight LX17 from John F. Kennedy Airport left the gate at 4:21 p.m. April 17, according to FlightAware. The aircraft was cleared for takeoff at the same time an air traffic controller on another frequency cleared four other jets to cross the runway, according to audio obtained by NPR.

“Due to the high level of situational awareness and quick reaction of our crew, a potentially dangerous situation was quickly de-escalated,” Swiss Air said…

The airline added that the crew of the Airbus A330 reacted professionally and that they regularly undergo simulator training that practices similar situations.

…

Similar close calls have been happening at airports across the U.S. Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it planned to investigate a close call involving JetBlue and Southwest aircraft in Washington.

JetBlue Airways told FOX Business flight 1554, which was flying from Washington, D.C., to Boston, had to abort its takeoff because another aircraft had attempted to cross the runway.

April 19, 2024

Remarks by President Biden at the IBEW Construction and Maintenance Conference

Washington Hilton Hotel
Washington, D.C.

THE PRESIDENT:  It’s good to be home.  (Applause.)

Please have a seat if you have one.  I don’t wa- — (laughs) — want you all to have to stand for me.  (Laughter.)

Neither do we.

I said when you guys endorsed me, “When I think of climate, I think of unions.  I think of jobs.  Jobs.” 

{Not climate?}

Improved power grids, new offshore wind turbines put up by the IBEW workers.

A national network of 500,000 electric vehicle stations are going to be built by IBEW workers…. Project Labor Agreements that make sure they hire highly skilled workers who have a voice on the job. 

Take nuclear power, the biggest source of clean energy.  It employs over 60,000 workers, including many of you.  The key to meeting the goal of a 100 percent clean power grid by 2035 depends a lot on it.  That’s why we’re keeping existing plants open, restarting shuttered plants, and building America’s first new nuclear plants in decades.  (Applause.)  …

Today, I can announce that the IBEW plant in southern Ohio has already produced the first 200 pounds of that powerful enriched uranium — the first ever — first ever made in America. 

? First ever?

And it’s on track to produce nearly a ton by the end of the year, enough to power 100,000 homes in this country. 

So?

Slurring his speech so even White House transcriptionists can’t decipher it:

You — by the way, go on out and ask people who know you — that you’re acquainted with who aren’t in the business at all, “What’s it take to be an electrician?”  You say, “Oh, well, you just say (inaudible).  You get a little bit of training.”  Four to five years of training to become an electrician.  You’re the best in the world.  That’s why it’s the (inaudible).  (Applause.) 

What does this mean?

And I tell you what, every businessman I talk to, I remind them of who you are.  Not a joke.  Not a joke. 

Look, think what’s happened, all kidding aside, for the years — the previous 15 years, 20 years.  Corporations look for the cheapest labor in the world, sent the jobs — sent the product to those — sent the jobs to those laborers, whether they’re in Asia or Europe, wherever they were, and then they sent the product back home.

Well, instead of importing foreign products, I’m exporting f- — their products, and we’re making those jobs American jobs, created here in America where they belong.  (Applause.)

It’s not that complicated.  No, I really mean it.

Five hundred fifty thousand jobs brought home — home, home home.  (Applause.)

… Well, guess what?  We’ve been — we created $500 bi- — $50 billion in investments here.  They’re bringing it here.

The Pennsylvania Primary:

Donald Trump won with 83.5% of the vote.

How Newsweek reported this advantageous outcome:

Donald Trump Suffers Huge Vote Against Him in Pennsylvania Primary
Newsweek | 24 April 2024 | Ewan Palmer

Donald Trump suffered a blow in the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday, as tens of thousands of Republicans refused to vote for him despite being the presumptive GOP nominee.

You’ve been warned.

Florida man runs over 11-foot alligator with his truck after seeing it dragging his elderly neighbor into pond
The Blaze | April 23, 2024 | Carlos Garcia

The alligator released the man and went back into the pond.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission … used the incident to remind residents in Florida that alligator mating season runs from May until June and attacks are more likely during that time. They cautioned residents to stay away from bodies of water, keep their pets on leashes, and never approach alligators.

On average, there are about seven unprovoked alligator attacks on humans every year in Florida. Very few attacks lead to fatalities, and most victims are male.