Supreme Court Climate Case Looks At EPA's Power
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Source: Huffington Post
WASHINGTON (AP) Industry groups and Republican-led states are heading an attack at the Supreme Court against the Obama administration's sole means of trying to limit power-plant and factory emissions of gases blamed for global warming.
As President Barack Obama pledges to act on environmental and other matters when Congress doesn't, or won't, opponents of regulating carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases cast the rule as a power grab of historic proportions.
The court is hearing arguments Monday about a small but important piece of the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to cut the emissions a requirement that companies expanding industrial facilities or building new ones that would increase overall pollution must also evaluate ways to reduce the carbon they release.
Environmental groups and even some of their opponents say that whatever the court decides, EPA still will be able to move forward with broader plans to set emission standards for greenhouse gases for new and existing power plants.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/23/supreme-court-climate-cas_n_4841901.html
Speechless here,
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Thanks, Nancy ( LBN host)
Thank you, OKNancy
freedom fighter jh
(1,782 posts)They don't like the conclusion that it leads to -- government doing more -- so they say it can't be true. It's backwards thinking, a mindset that I fear may be shared by some on the Supreme Court.
starroute
(12,977 posts)Anything that makes liberals squirm is a positive achievement from their viewpoint, and there's no room for larger concerns in their little minds.
Auggie
(31,230 posts)Sociopathic behavior, IMO
kristopher
(29,798 posts)Thanks for pointing it out.
okaawhatever
(9,478 posts)to be made by promoting the oil industry's interests.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)..Than Healthy and happy.
Assisted suicide on our planet, unlike Dr. Kevorkian, these fuckers do it
without consent.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)to convince most brown energy corporatists and their flunkies that what makes them rich is destroying the world. Those you can convince will tell you that saving the world would cost too much anyway.
SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)Get a lawyer and sue 'em - it's the American way.