Trump killing all the fish
Of course he did.
Court finds Trump Tower violated environmental laws and endangered fish in the Chicago River
After several years of litigation, a Cook County judge has found operations at Trump Tower violated state and federal environmental laws that protect the fish in the Chicago River, the Illinois attorney general’s office announced Wednesday.
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Cook County Circuit Judge Thaddeus L. Wilson on Monday granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs, finding Trump International Hotel & Tower at 401 N. Wabash Ave. liable on all counts. This means there will be no trial. Raoul’s office is seeking civil penalties and injunctive relief, to be determined by the court at a future hearing, which has not yet been scheduled.
“Effectively, what was found is, there’s no question that they have done all the things that they were accused of doing,” Margaret Frisbie, executive director of Friends of the Chicago River, told the Tribune.
A lawsuit filed in 2018 by then-Attorney General Lisa Madigan alleged the cooling system intake structure at Trump Tower siphoned water from the river so powerfully that it sucked in fish and trapped them against its screens, resulting in the death of thousands of aquatic organisms. Because of the system’s capability to pull in more than 20 million gallons of water from the river per day, federal law required extensive studies of its environmental impact and of fish populations in the river. The building also pumps water back into the river that is up to 35 degrees hotter.
Advocates say the Chicago River is healthier now than it has been the past 150 years. It is home to all kinds of animals, including migratory birds, beavers and turtles, as well as 80 species of fish — up from fewer than 10 in the 1970s. The system has become a natural resource for local businesses and recreation.
Count on Trump to do the opposite of all that.
A Tribune investigation in 2018 found that none of the other buildings holding cooling intake permits — nearly a dozen high-rises along the river — had similarly violated applicable rules. Most other downtown buildings, including many on the river, rely on different methods to keep cool, such as cooling towers connected to the public water system or an underground network of pipes that deliver chilled water from a handful of “ice batteries.”
But not Trump. Trump is a maverick. Trump does whatever Trump wants. Trump is a gleaming bronze symbol of doing whatever the fuck he wants all the time no matter what.
Well that’s just weaponization of the Justice Department, right? What have fish ever done for Trump? Do fish vote? No. They can just fuck right off.
Sort of a larger scale version of “rolling coal.”
If Trump still had an airline, he’d claim “persecution” even as the body count from crashed planes rose higher and higher.
Yeah, but the REAL problem is the windmills killing all them birds!
That gave me a flashback of that grotesque gilded statue of him at CPAC a few years ago.
Tinkerbell
It’s that magic wand, it gives him omnipotence.
twilighter:
I followed your link to the March 4, 2021, piece by Max Burns:
I thought the gilded littleish boyish statue of him would be a dangerous thing to have on show where Trump himself was likely to be around, as it could cause him to throw a tantrum and generally do his block. That could spoil his chances in the election coming up.
But, on reflection, it occurred to me that bringing about such a fall from grace may have been the intention of the modern Michelangelo who sculpted it. The greatest irony is the GOP suggestion that Trump is insufficiently Trumpist for them. Or, as Alice said: of Wonderland: “Curiouser and curioser.”
Trump scalpted by a sculptor.
I have no doubt Omar @4, that there are people who are much more Trumpy than Trump himself. Some of his more rabid followers are truly off the rails. These are the type of people who went to the Capitol on Jan. 6, while Trump stood by and let it happen and then mealy mouthed his way out of taking responsibility.
@5:
It has been with great reuictance on my part, but I cannot see any way round it. Military dictators installed by coup aside, we, the people of any genuine democracy, get the politicians we deserve. NB: Trump may be an exception (proving the rule?) having requested to be installed as Dictator of the United States by popular vote. No, on second thought, he would prove it with bells, whistles and gold-plate galore. With the proviso, please understand, that any plebiscite or popular vote which did not go his way would automatically be stolen, null and void, phony, and a total fraud.
Understandably also, he has great admiration for Kim Jong-il, ‘Little Rocket Man’ and dictator of North Korea. Perhaps Kim could somehow give him a hand getting into absolute power in the good old US of A.