The following information has been mentioned previously in related threads concerning MAJOR constitutonal problems with the EPA and other constitutionally undefined so-called “independent federal regulatory agencies.” I’m posting this info again in case some freepers have not seen it before.
To begin with, not only have the states never delegated to Congress via the Constitution the specific power to regulate the environment, but also consider the following. The Founding States made the Constitution’s Sections 1-3 of Article I to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress. This means that Congress has a constitutional monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not imo.
And by delegating federal regulatory powers to nonelected bureaucrats, Congress is not only unconstitutionally protecting the abuse of such powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of the statutes referenced above, but consider the following. Rogue federal agencies like the EPA amount to a smoke-and-mirrors way for corrupt Congress to wrongly create new powers for itself by bypassing its Article V requirement to petition the states for specific new powers via constitutional amendments imo.
Finally, I’ll shut up about judges not being able to tell the difference between the Constitution and a horse’s arse when judges start referencing specific constitutional statutes like I do to justify their decisions.
Thank you.