Posted on 07/02/2022 8:30:45 AM PDT by Libloather
The climate advocates who cheered President Joe Biden’s arrival at the White House last year are preparing to give up on Washington.
Instead, environmentalists and many of their Democratic allies are starting to shift their focus to state capitals as the places to press for action on climate change - going back to a strategy that they employed with some success during the Trump era.
The flight from D.C. is in large part a response to 18 months of frustration with major setbacks to Biden’s climate agenda, capped by Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling that hobbled the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases. Even before that decision, Democrats’ ambitious plans for hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of climate action wilted in the Senate. And November’s midterms are giving off vibes of a Republican sweep - similar to the rout that Democrats suffered in 2010, the last time they tried and failed to pass major climate legislation.
While greens hope Thursday’s ruling could bring new urgency to a Capitol Hill push for sizable clean energy incentives, the doors to major federal action are either shut or closing rapidly in both Congress and the executive branch. That’s left them looking for alternatives - no matter that Democrats nominally remain in charge in the capital.
On the other hand, relying on the states that led the U.S. climate fight during Donald Trump’s presidency won’t get the nation to Biden’s target of aggressively cutting greenhouse gases by 2030.
“That’s not going to be enough,” Goldfuss said. “We knew that under Trump, too.”
At least when Goldfuss was in the White House, climate campaigners had the high court on its side: Rulings in 2007 and 2014 gave EPA wide latitude to wield the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases.
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I don’t even give us that long. Not because of climate either.
the gore global warming began in 1976...see the link
Or maybe they could just crawl back under their rock....
The bartender was born on October 13, 1989.
It worked in couple of states - CA, NV, maybe some more?
But failed miserably in AZ!
I think, after the “success” of our Resident’s green agenda, people got smarter and no more states will get suck into this!
People are choosing between gas and food. They are in the process of regulating cars out of existence. So many Power Plants have closed that rolling black outs are coming nation wide. Domestic energy production is crippled and new exploration is dead. All that and the Green fascists are nowhere near satisfied.
If this doesn’t tell you what the Biden admin thinks about America. We are in such a disaster.
Earth is an estimated ~4.6 Billion years old, how many makeovers has it been already?
As I’ve said in the past the only difference between this climate change and past climate changes is that the government has figured out how to fleece taxpayers for somebody to line their pockets on grandiose money laundering schemes.
The Earth will shake US off like a case of bad fleas before we do anything substantial to IT.
That’s a good point.
***the gore global warming began in 1976***
How could that be? We were in the middle of THE COMING ICE AGE hoax. The fall and winter of 1976-1977 was so brutally cold it was used as proof the Ice Age was on it’s way.
From POPULAR SCIENCE, Feb 1980..
PS/What’s News ....
page 73
Changing the weather intentionally or otherwise weather modification..(Earth cooling vs Greenhouse effect)
“Do you suppose we can learn enough, soon enough, to pull off a balancing act with the CO2 blanket saving us from another ice age?”
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