Posted on 08/04/2010 2:33:29 PM PDT by decimon
Newswatch: Energy says the EPA’s claimed authority to regulate ‘greenhouse’ gases has sparked an unprecedented feud with the State of Texas which has responded in language that is just short of grapeshot and gunpowder. At the center of the debate is the administration’s fallback plan to put in place parts of cap and trade via regulation. That was always going to be a hard sell.
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And Texas ain’t buying. In a letter to the EPA the Texas Attorney General and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality refused to “pledge their fealty to the Environmental Protection Agency”. Yes folks, you read the language right. And there’s more.
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States Rights rule baby!!! Go Texas!!
States are starting to fight back: Texas, Virginia, Missouri. We finally have big mo going.
Remember the Alamo!
Forgot to say: I liked where the guy charges that the state’s response is - horror of horrors — “political,” as if what the the federal government is doing isn’t, and as if it is unheard of for politics to intrude on environmental policy. He buddy: it’s all politics.
---It's all politics, Joe.
I wonder why our reply was “short of grapshot and gunpowder”?
do we have a temporary shortage of one or the other?
Just declare the whole of Texas an EPA sanctuary state. If that does not work claim the whole state is a mosque and it’s desecration to intrude.
Slowly, one by one, the states are starting to line up on their refusal to knuckle under to the Feds.
Arizona - Immigration
Virginia - Health Care, Immigration
Missouri - Health Care
Texas - Environmental Regs,
All this will end up in a “States Rights” revolt. Sharpen your pitchforks.
You could see that coming from a mile away. This for the children stchick is so old and worn it is laughable.
For states that can’t or won’t immediately comply with the rules, EPA is planning to use its authority to bring them into compliance with federal rules. The agency sent a proposal to the White House regulatory review office last month that seeks to guarantee authority for federal implementation plans, or FIPs, that could replace state programs if the states do not comply with federal requirements by the deadlines.
It looks like we are about to get our 10th Amendment show down. If the stacked Supreme Court rules against us don't bet on placid compliance.
I don't think so. We have been replacing liberal Democrats in state government for about twenty years and we have some pretty good conservatives in office. Greg Abbot, the Attorney General, is one of them.
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