Posted on 04/12/2021 6:10:55 AM PDT by TrumpianRepublican
The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a heavy blow to a major left-wing environmental group.
In the 7-2 ruling, the justices sided with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, thwarting the Sierra Club’s bid to obtain documents concerning a regulation finalized in 2014 relating to power plants.
One of the founders of Sierra Club is now pro-Nuclear Power Plant. He also had written against the modern Sierra Club.
Same for one of the founding members of Greenpeace. He rebutted claims of “global warming “ with data while on Stuart Barney’s program. Stuart was shocked to hear that coming from an environmentalist.
Not all environmentalists are nutters. Unfortunately the whack jobs are the only ones that make the news.
I hope the Supreme Court “justices” don’t think that a swing toward common sense will save the Republic at this late date! The horse left the stable back in December. Closing the barn door now won’t help.
Same with Green Peace founder. Came to their senses when they matured.
Hopefully Kagan will surprise us when gun cases come up. Judge Scalia took her under his wing and took her skeet shooting!
If any of these environmental groups were sincere they would be speaking out against the open border Dems.
From the article:
liberal Justice Elena Kagan with the majority, with liberals Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor in dissent.
“The ruling in the Sierra Club case limited the scope of U.S. agency documents that would be subject to a federal law called the Freedom of Information Act, which lets people request certain government materials.
“The group wanted access to internal documents concerning the Fish and Wildlife Service’s conclusion that a proposed environmental regulation for cooling water intake structures that are used by power plants and other industrial facilities would not adversely affect endangered species, including fish, turtles and shellfish.
“The agency initially found in 2013 that the regulation would put the species in jeopardy but its final recommendation to the Environmental Protection Agency in 2014 made the opposite conclusion.”
Writing for the court, Barrett said the 2013 draft documents were protected from disclosure because “they reflect a preliminary view – not a final decision – about the likely effect of the EPA’s proposed rule on endangered species.”
The Sierra Club was founded in 1892. Its founders are dead. What are you talking about?
But the voting records show that they voted in the last election.
Did the Founders get the Covid vaccine a week or two before dying?
Because I know some people that are counting those kind of folks........
Patrick Moore’s family is in the timber industry in B.C.
John Muir ran a saw mill in Yosemite.
This business was conducted in 2014 during the Obama administration. Don’t you think it’s possible one of Kagan’s motivations was to back up his administration’s decisions?
Maybe it was Greenpeace I was thinking of. Heard a radio inteview (about a new book) last month.
The ruling is not over environmental policy.
It is over public access to information on executive agency policy making.
Conservatives may not like the impact of this ruling during the Biden administration.
I think it was more a victory for the deep state than it was a victory “against an environmental activist group”.
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