{"id":6568,"date":"2016-01-19T06:31:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T06:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6568"},"modified":"2016-01-19T06:31:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T06:31:25","slug":"donald-is-trumped-by-the-ea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/01\/19\/donald-is-trumped-by-the-ea\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald is trumped by the Env. Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dreamed the other night, in that random way you do, that I was taking\u00a0tea with Mr Trump \u2013 and that I upset him by what I said, and rendered him speechless. \u00a0Not sure life can get much better\u00a0than this.<\/p>\n<p>But why\u00a0a Trump dream in the first place? \u00a0Maybe it was that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/10\/16\/geep-7-last-words-and-donald-trump\/\">prize<\/a> I won last November in San Diego\u00a0for getting the right answer to the question of what\u00a0is the biggest source of greenhouse gases in the USA\u00a0\u2013 DJT, of course.<\/p>\n<p>But it seems he pollutes here as well. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.climateactionprogramme.org\/news\/donald_trump_fined_for_air_pollution_by_uk\">Climate Action<\/a> reports that a\u00a0company owned by Trump has been fined \u00a31,610 by the UK Environment Agency for breaking carbon emissions rules. \u00a0The penalty is for a flight to the UK by\u00a0a plane owned by DJT Operations (*), a part of the Trump empire,\u00a0and comes under the EU's\u00a0carbon pollution emissions trading scheme (ETS) which\u00a0requires polluters to buy a carbon permit for every metric tonne of carbon pollution emitted, or face a $109 per metric tonne fine. \u00a0DJT Ops paid the fine.<\/p>\n<p>The Environment Agency fined 25 operators recently more than \u00a3750,000 for failing to obtain carbon permits to cover their emissions. \u00a0These include\u00a0include the Bahrain Royal family, AIG and 21st Century Fox America. \u00a0Let's hope the EA spends the money on a good green cause.<\/p>\n<p>(*) \u00a0Here's a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planespotters.net\/airline\/DJT-Operations\">report<\/a>,\u00a0of sorts, on the irrepressible <em>Planespotters.net<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dreamed the other night, in that random way you do, that I was taking\u00a0tea with Mr Trump \u2013 and that I upset him by what I said, and rendered him speechless. \u00a0Not sure life can get much better\u00a0than this....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}