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EPA Ordered — Again — To Release $2.8B in Climate Justice Funds 8%
By Whowhatwhy Editors34%
7/31/2026, 3:30:23 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Appeal to Authority, and Circular Reasoning, with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 14.6% saturation with 96 hits. Analysis detected 351 faulty-reasoning hits from 658 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 22.9% and a BS Rank of 8% (21,109 of 22,840 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 92.40% of the article peer group.
The author writes , “A South Carolina federal judge this week ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to resume distributing funds designed to address environmental and health challenges in underserved communities.
In June, US District Judge Richard Gergel voided the Trump administration’s termination of the $2.8B Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program.
But the court ruling did not explicitly require the Environmental Protection Agency to resume distributing the block grants.”
The author writes , “Democratic Rep.
Yassamin Ansari wants Donald Trump’s son Barron Trump to testify to the House Oversight Committee about whether he knew about or ‘had any involvement whatsoever’ in the crimes of Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are accused of strangling women unconscious and raping them.
Federal law enforcement agents arrested the ‘manosphere’ influencers in Miami … following an extradition request from the U.K., where they face serious trafficking and sexual abuse allegations.
… Barron Trump was reportedly a fan of Andrew Tate and spoke to him over Zoom in 2024, according to The New York Times .
Donald Trump Jr. also reportedly met Tate at Trump Tower in 2017, and Alina Habba, a former attorney to the president who briefly served as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, described herself as a ‘big fan’ during a January 2025 podcast appearance.”
From Wired : “An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point.
The students say they were just doing their homework.”
From Jacobin : “The people who advocate moderation .. are almost never moderate in this organic sense.
… These people are instead strategic moderates who advocate that politicians and other political actors determine what the current median is and then adopt those views, including in their own political advocacy.
This sounds sensible until you realize that the median is constantly changing, and that minoritarian views become majoritarian (and thus moderate) views only because people advocate for them in the political sphere broadly defined.
If you are constantly sampling the point-in-time median to define your views, you will have very unstable views, and you will end up having taken positions that become wildly unpopular.”
From The American Prospect : “Two developments over the past year have elevated the importance of election reform.
The gerrymandering war initiated by Donald Trump and the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Voting Rights Act have raised doubts about old strategies for fair redistricting maps and minority political representation.
As a result, attention is turning to an electoral alternative that could achieve a fairer and more inclusive politics: proportional representation, the electoral system used in a majority of democracies but long dismissed as a fringe idea in the United States.”
The author writes , “The world’s largest meat company is backing away from its climate and deforestation commitments after claiming for several years that reducing its greenhouse gas emissions was a key goal.
In its recent annual sustainability report, released [this month] JBS dropped its ambitious commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2040 and omitted any mentions of its previous goal to eliminate deforestation across its supply chains in Brazil.
The move comes as other major livestock companies and grain traders in the livestock supply chain appear to be shrinking their climate ambitions, including jettisoning membership in a successful moratorium on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.”
From Hawaii News Now : “A California man was stranded on his sailboat for over a month while en route to Hawaii.
Kai Sato, 39, sailed off from the Catalina Islands on June 7, in an attempt to complete his first solo sail across the Pacific.
His plans took a turn for the worse when his mast snapped only two weeks into his journey.
‘I cried for a whole week, just drifting south, like miserable,’ said Sato.
‘I felt like I was going to just try to turn my motor on and just suffocate, to kill myself.’”
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