Posted on 02/08/2016 5:22:01 AM PST by Texas Fossil
Environmentalist lawyers have been pushing a legal theory that would give the Environmental Protection Agency cover to regulate every facet of state energy policy - effectively eliminating states' authority to craft their own regulations.
"Buried in the Clean Air Act is an extremely powerful mechanism that Daily Caller New Foundationeffectively gives EPA carte blanche to tell states to make drastic cuts to their emissions," Brian Potts, a partner at the law firm Foley & Lardner wrote in Politico Monday.
"This provision, which can now be used thanks to the completion of the Paris climate deal, raises important questions about national sovereignty and states' rights - questions that Republicans would undoubtedly use to try and kill such a proposal," Potts wrote. "But the benefits of using this mechanism dwarf those concerns."
Potts is referring to Section 115 of the Clean Air Act. Liberal legal scholars argue the Paris global warming treaty has triggered this little-known provision of federal law, and now the EPA can launch a full takeover of states' environmental regulatory agendas.
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I wished it were that simple. There are some in TX who agree with you and would Succeed from the US.
I’m not one of them.
And there are legitimate Federal functions, like national defense.
But the Limited Federal Functions were specifically mentioned in the Constitution. Of course our perception of that has been warped over the years.
A middle ground solution would have Congress meet in DC 2-3 times per year. And the rest of the time operate from their home district under the thumb of the electorate. Texas Legislature meets once every 2 years unless the governor calls a special session. It has worked well for TX for a long time, no reason it could not work for DC.
The constitution states that Congress shall meet at least once per year and specifies the date. (date has been changed)
The “government” taking total control of the American people. We’ve got “too much freedom” here in America.
There is no such thing as too much freedom. Impossible to even approach that.
I agree with your Constitutional premise and I agree with the basic functions of the feral gubment but it is not likely at all that you can destroy the extra-Constitutional functions alone. They are intertwined like a cancer mass.
Perhaps if whole agencies are eliminated change might be possible. Think of the unemployment. It would hammer the US economy in a double edged sword.
One of the worst things that eve happened to this country was Air Conditioning. It transformed a miserable, muggy, mosquito infested, malarial swamp like area that people who could fled in the summer to a place where they stayed year-round and left the bureaucrats to run the show. Turn of the Air Conditioning.
Yes.
Rogue indeed.
Clinton seems to think that “too much freedom” is something that she is going to have to do something about.
The EPA needs to be shut down.
5.56mm
Let’s see here, the Clean Air Act, that little gift Tricky Dick gave to us along with the EPA, now if this was created as a law by the federal legislature, then could it not be amended by the same jackasses to take power away from the EPA?
Oh wait, we are talking about the Uniparty, RINO’s and socialists that are in power.
“Turn of the their Air Conditioning.”
I agree, the only way to end this is remove all of the traitorous vermin supporting this tyranny.
Derr Hilderbeast can pound sand.
What were Nixon’s other blunders?
Watergate was an ‘op’ to do two things:
1) Prove that the DNC was laundering money for the Teamsters, the ‘plumbers’ got the proof
2) To prove the DNC was operating a call girl service out of the DNC HQ - and that it was run by John Dean’s (soon to be) wife, again the ‘plumbers’ got the proof
The ‘press’ had to go radical on Nixon to save the DNC...
Nixon was a terrific President.
He tried to appease the Left on many issues. He wanted to make friends with liberals and the media. History tells what the results were.
I was just wondering about the tribulation and how after all the grass is burnt up and 1/3 of the trees are dead that without CO2 there won’t be much growth. Starve, humans, starve!
http://plantsneedco2.org/default.aspx?menuitemid=225
http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/basics/today/greenhouse-gases.html
Dang, worldwide eugenics.
As long as the tax savings were immediately passed back to the taxpayers, the net may actually be positive for the individuals who pay for it all.
If the government is a jobs program, then we have more serious issues than unemployment. (I considered phrasing this last as a statement, as opposed to a hypothetical. Ugh)
It’s NOT the EPA. It’s the Clean Air Act!
Until it is repealed, this crap will keep coming up, EPA or no EPA.
Yes, you make a very good point. The gubment does not produce anything. It is a cost and very often not a necessary cost to the whole isn’t it? Consider the duplication to the states that is not a coordinating role as an unnecessary cost. Consider national defense that, while mostly very wasteful in their spending habits I think, is a necessary cost to the safety and stability. Consider locks, dams and flood control that mostly accrue to the benefit of commerce and safety as necessary.
Usually companies have days of reconing when they finally rationalize and right size their enterprise to correct expansive creep from less well managed salad days. The feral gubment never does such a thing and just ever expands in laws and size.
In point of fact, I believe, the gubment IS a jobs program in many functions and we do have more serious issues because it is certainly NOT all necessary at all but expansive overhead instead. Tell that to the people who are employed and tell them to find some other job in the economy we have. We simply don’t have enough productive work for all of us.
bkmk
I have to say the Chicago Mob has made the term “lame duck president” completely obsolete.
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