“And if you go back over 40-50 years, whenever congress enacted environmental laws, they always said it would destroy the nation. But it never did”
Appreciate your response. Just want to say I haven’t seen “Congress” enact environmental laws with this administration, have you? Seems that’s been left to the Leftist bureaucrats, and apparently Congress gave them their rubber stamp with a well saturated ink pad as well.
They tried, but failed, in 2009 and 2010 with CO2 regulations. Remember cap and trade?
There may be others that I don't recall or possibly amendments to older legislation.
And of course judicial decisions carry the weight of law. Congress' attempt at cap and trade was in response to a SCOTUS decision(2007) and Obama/EPA regs on CO2 were/are a result of that same SCOTUS decision.
Obama's first set of regs on CO2 dealing with new permits was put in place in 2010 after Congress failed at cap and trade. Obama/EPA was sued after he implemented those regs and that had to go all the way back to SCOTUS and they ruled on that in mid june, 2014.
Then around June 1, 2014, Obama implemented his new CO2 regs on existing permits. Two lawsuits have already been filed and more will probably be filed but that will have to go all the way back to SCOTUS.
If you believe in miracles, come Jan 17, 2017, the GOP will control the House, 60 seats in the senate, and the presidency.