Posted on 07/03/2015 4:20:10 AM PDT by thackney
Oklahoma attorney general challenges EPA’s clean-air plan
http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2015/07/oklahoma-attorney-general-challenges-epa-s-clean-air-plan.html
07/02/2015
A plan by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants would threaten the reliability and affordability of electricity and cause substantial economic injury to the state, Attorney General Scott Pruitt claims in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
The lawsuit in federal court in Tulsa argues the EPA’s Clean Power Plan exceeds its authority and seeks an injunction that would prohibit the federal agency from regulating coal-fired electricity plants in Oklahoma.
“The EPA is ignoring the authority granted by Congress to states to regulate power plant emissions at their source,” Pruitt said in a statement. “The Clean Power Plan is an unlawful attempt to expand federal bureaucrats’ authority over states’ energy economies in order to shutter coal-fired power plants and eventually other sources of fossil-fuel generated electricity.”...
The president does not obey laws he doesn’t like; why should the people?
CO2 is not a pollutant!!!!!
Oh noes, anarchy!
The Fascist in Chief is forcing de facto secession with his onerous, illegal policies.
They should put man made climate change on trial... This is the only way to stop this...
We will not comply. We need more of this. The states need to actively practice civil disobedience against the federal leviathan.
And they need to promote it -- to their own people...and beyond.
....unless Angie’s List throws a hissy fit. Then Pence will fold.
CO2 is not a pollutant!!!!!
Yes it is!! Liberals should stop exhaling!!! /s
In 2007 SCOTUS ruled that CO2 was a pollutant(Massachusetts v. EPA) and told EPA to regulate CO2 with the Clean Air Act.
Senator and President Obama wanted Congress to regulate CO2, but after Congress failed at that in 2009-10, Obama/EPA moved forward in regulating CO2.
First were the regs on new permits in 2010 and many lawsuits were filed over that but Obama/EPA won that in 2014.(Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA.)
That was followed in 2014 by the Obama/EPA regs on existing permits, which the article is talking as the Clean Power Plan.
So Pence is saying that after the final rule is written in August, he is going to sue, and many more will also sue and ultimately SCOTUS will have to rule on it.
Too late for Pence - he blew it on the gay marriage thing.
“ANYTHING GOES....!”
Let’s hope people everywhere wake up and practice civil disobedience to the tyrant’s impossible rules and laws that are designed to destroy their industries. The man knows he’s destroying America using regulatory agencies to fine the crap out of every possible thing he can turn into an offense.
“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
Hence forth, in Indiana, the element with the Atomic Number 6 and the atomic weight of 12 will be known as pleron.
Regulations related to carbon are not applicable to pleron
I like it! Let’s beat the Lefties at their own game of redefining ‘at will.’ Pleron, it is!!!
I hope now, like he did with the gay issue.
Why should any state comply with what the EPA says? The EPA was created by executive order. Nobody wanted it or voted for it, and it makes up its own rules and laws to impose on people who never had a say in the decision.
All you need to become a member of Union of Concerned Scientists is a credit card.
Give the Feds a taste of “Irish democracy”.
What would Michael Collins do?
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