Posted on 07/16/2013 11:09:06 PM PDT by george76
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and the attorneys general of 11 other states sued the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday, demanding that the agency turn over documents the states allege will show the agency cooperates with environmental groups as part of a "sue and settle" legal strategy to develop regulations.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City, alleges that binding consent decrees between the EPA and environmental groups that have sued the agency over the years have led to new rules and regulations for states without allowing their attorneys general to defend their interests and those of its businesses and consumers.
"The EPA is picking winners and losers, exhibiting favoritism, at the expense of due process and transparency,” Pruitt said in a statement. "They are manipulating our legal system to achieve what they cannot through our representative democracy. The outcomes of their actions affect every one of us by sticking states with the bill and unnecessarily raising utility rates by as much as 20 percent."
Besides Oklahoma, the attorney generals of Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wyoming are parties to the lawsuit.
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Pruitt said as many as 40 lawsuits have been filed against EPA over the years by such environmental groups as Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, WildEarth Guardians and the Sierra Club that have led to consent decrees, "sometimes on the same day the lawsuit is filed," that include terms and conditions that go beyond statutory guidelines approved by Congress.
"I would look at that very suspect and say: 'What's going on?'" Pruitt said. "The EPA is picking winners and losers.
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The first question and decision was whether or not to put an oxygenate in gasoline to make it burn better in the cylinder and reduce pollution. And the universal consensus was yes.
Then the next question was which oxygenate. The Midwest went with ethanol and CA and other states went with mtbe, which was produced in a refinery from waste products. A new product.
It was the O&G industry/refiners who were pushing mtbe.
There may have been, as you say, some leaky pipelines but the real problem was that CA did an inadequate job of inspecting buried gasoline tanks. Gasoline is not water soluble so a leaky tank is not a big problem. But when you put water soluble mtbe in the gasoline , it migrates fast and far
Actually I had two purposes in my reply. I fouled one up but still have the other right. "EarthJustice" is in fact the Sierra Flub's litigation organization. So, one out of two ain't a complete failure...
Interestingly, they have offices across the street from the Stanford Law School. Yep, right on campus.
That's why George Zimmerman needs to watch out for Federal hate crime charges. It doesn't matter to Obama and Holder whether they will ultimately win in court or not, or that their case is even winnable or Constitutional. They only care that Zimmerman is punished along the way.
-PJ
Well of course it was! The stuff was cheaper and they had been paying big bucks to get rid of the toxic stuff and this idea saved them that expense, too!
There's nothing wrong with my memory! I was just trying to make a quick comment about the ghastly effect of the threat of litigation and the milking of the legal system by these NGO litigating parasites who threat and switch!!!
If I were to write a book in response to each thread you'd complain about that even more!!! (Next time don't be so fast and loose with the aspersions, thanks.) I've never poked you like that before so don't start with me. (at least not that I remember)(grin)
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