It’s almost like the movie wasn’t actually about a big rock
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In a letter first reported by The Lever on Monday, 165 staffers from federal health and environmental agencies and 80 congressional offices urged Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to “strip Senator Manchin of his chairmanship of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, shut down the Mountain Valley Pipeline Project, eliminate the use of mountaintop removal and coal burning, and establish stringent water and air pollution standards.”
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On topic with floods and torrential rains…
8” of rain in just a few hrs. Dylan needs to write a new song.
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St Louis just got more rain in one day than they’ve had since 1915.
I live 125 miles west of St Louis, and usually we get their weather first, but we got a cool breeze and welcome amounts of rain.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3576965-manchin-schumer-announce-slimmed-down-670-billion-deal/
“The investments will be fully paid for by closing tax loopholes on wealthy individuals and corporations.”
The deal would raise $739 billion in new revenue through a variety of proposals, according to a one-page summary provided by the negotiators.
It would raise $313 billion by implementing a 15-percent corporate minimum tax, $288 billion from empowering Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices, $124 billion from strong IRS enforcement of tax law and $14 billion from closing the carried interest loophole for money managers.
Repeat: “strong IRS enforcement of tax law and $14 billion from closing the carried interest loophole for money managers.” 
It would spend $369 billion on energy security and climate change and $64 billion to extend health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.
“energy security” is that like big coal and gas reserves sold at a profit? Security for whom I ask.
It would allocate $300 billion to reduce the deficit.
(It’s a good start but I betcha part of the deal is that coal from the Mountain State is still relevant.)
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And we’ve been wasting $288 being overcharged for necessary medications.
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After the story from MO the other day, I searched for a way to track these events and found this. It can be set to display specific states or regions, too:
https://waterwatch.usgs.gov/index.php?r=us&id=ww_flood
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