Posted on 10/04/2017 7:17:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Trump administration was ordered by a federal judge Wednesday to immediately enforce new restrictions on the release of potent methane emissions at oil and gas drilling operations on public land.
The ruling came at the behest of California and other states, which charged the administration is required by law to enforce the new rules intended to cut the release of 175,000 tons of the potent greenhouse gas annually, as well as reduce the emission of associated toxic pollutants.
The Interior Department had been delaying enforcement as it mapped out a strategy to rescind the new rules, which industry has complained are onerous. An earlier push by opponents of new methane restrictions to kill them in Congress fell short of the needed votes amid a backlash from landowners affected by pollution from drilling and environmentalists.
The ruling was the latest in a series of legal setbacks for the Trump administration, as the courts find flaws in its plans for dismantling executive branch actions taken to confront climate change before President Trump took office.
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“It’s not a law passed by Congress. It’s regulations imposed by a federal agency.”
Since when have Democrats begun caring about mundane things like laws, or the Constitution?
Yes! Hey, we don’t have enough resources so we are just going to go ahead and ignore this regulation/law and study it. We feel really bad but this is the best we can do! Oh, and while we ignore it, we will actually encourage more of the behavior. LOL, hope it happens this way!
The article doesn't even give the judges name.
Methane on Public lands self-identifies as pure Oxygen. There, problem solved. Dare them to deny it. They'd be Climate Deniers.
Just say no, my President. Agencies cannot make law even if they were created by Congress and all that happy stuff. And a judge should know that.
Mine also; I just tell her it is the natural offgassing of her EXCELLENT COOKING, that usually earns me a dirty look but blissful silence.
Trump should enforce the ruling, but only in the states that insist it be enforced, thus not interfering in the activities in the states that are not part of the complaint, and meanwhile finish the work on revising the rule, to in effect nullify it.
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