US states sue EPA to stop greenhouse gas rules [FL, IN, SC, VA, TX, AL...]

Rooooooters ^ | Mar 19, 2010 | Timothy Gardner

[upchuck]

At least 15 U.S. states have sued the Environmental Protection Agency seeking to stop it from issuing rules controlling greenhouse gas emissions until it reexamines whether the pollution harms human health.

Florida, Indiana, South Carolina and at least nine other states filed the petitions in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, states said.

They joined petitions filed last month by Virginia, Texas and Alabama.

The Obama administration has long said it would attack greenhouse gas emissions with EPA regulation if Congress failed to pass a climate bill.

The state petitions call for the EPA to reopen hearings on the so-called "endangerment finding" the agency issued last year declaring the emissions dangerous to people.

"If EPA doesn't reopen the hearings we will move forward to try to stop them from regulating greenhouse gases," said Brian Gottstein, an assistant to Virginia's Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli.

The states have complained that the EPA relied too heavily from reports by the U.N.'s climate science panel which included information that exaggerated the melting of Himalayan glaciers.

[patriot preacher]

If we are to survive, the States are going to HAVE to begin resisting the Federal tyranny. THe Federal Court system, however, will be too slow, and the States have waited too long in most cases, to force the kind of action necessary to end Washington’s overreach. Legislatures will have to take the bull by the horns, start seriously reasserting their 10th Amendment rights, and threaten withholding Federal taxes, expelling Federal officials from states, and perhaps even threatening secession. To those who whine that this is not an option, I say, what other leverage are we left with then?

[central_va]

You can blame the other Illinois President for that....

[BlackjackPershing]

Looking for the complete list of the states...

[JudgemAll]

The EPA better depollute itself of its own chip on the shoulder attitude. What a bunch of idiot radicals we have in government.

[gargoyle]

...Sounds pessimistic from an upbeat person, with yer tagline. Wwwwhat do you have in mind to do???

[Frantzie]

Florida too!? Maybe Charlie Crist’s tanning bed emits too much CO2. He must be really pissed.

[world weary]

The supreme court decision to have the EPA regulate greenhouse gasses as pollution under the Clean Air Act is Massachusetts v. EPA. The EPA tried to change its policies to raise the bar for levels of CO2, however this is a clear violation of the law as the EPA cannot just change the content of the Clean Air Act. The EPA doesn't really have a choice in the matter.

As for the other part, I was incorrect when I said the epa had been challanged in court on changing their levels. That hasn't happened yet, but its fairly clear what the decision of the court would be.

Changing the law is still the best way to go about making sure there isn't too much of an impact. The Clean Air act is not designed to regulate green house gasses, and the Senate is going to take up this issue soon as they have climate legislation in the works already.

[ForGod'sSake]

Har! You mean the soon to be ex governor AND ex senate candidate from the great state of Florida??? Last I heard, Rubio was cleaning up the joint with him. BTW, would you be interested in swapping your soon to be senator with slimy senator John Cornyn from Texas? Cornyn has caught a terminal case of Potomac Fever.

[BOBTHENAILER]

the obamation is falling apart before crack sharpened eyes.

[joesjane]

That’s what I thought, isn’t that what they said about global warmning?

[upchuck]

Looking for the complete list of the states...

The states listed in the title (FL, IN, SC, VA, TX, AL) are the only ones mentioned in the story. Sorry.

[bjcintennessee]

ping

[Slings and Arrows]

If at first you don’t secede, try, try again.

G-d, I love this place!

[hoosiermama]

Indiana’s on the ball again. Pass it on.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !EPA: An unelected, flunky bureaucracy wielding rogue powers based in junk science. A cancer on the private sector.

Action against EPA abuse of power by private enterprise:

• CEI: CEI, Science Groups Petition EPA to Reconsider Increasingly Dubious Global Warming “Endangerment” Finding
• CEI: New Lawsuit, Petition Challenge EPA Global Warming Regulations
• PEC: World’s biggest coal company brings U.S. government to court in climate fraud
• PEC: World’s biggest coal company brings U.S. government to court in climate fraud
• CEI, NAM, API, CRA, OCA, UARG, etc.: 16 'Endangerment' Lawsuits Filed Against EPA Before Deadline

Action against EPA abuse of power by state/federal government:

• TX: A Green Tea Party
• TX: Texas, Skeptics Seek Court Review of EPA's 'Endangerment' Finding
• TX: Texas sues EPA over anti-pollution plan
• TX: Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rules
• TX: UPDATE 1-Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rules
• TX: Governor Rick Perry To Sue the EPA
• VA: Cuccinelli, Virginia Attorney General Challenges EPA on Greenhouse Gas
• VA: Va. challenges EPA's stance on global warming
• VA: Virginia challenges EPA ruling on greenhouse gases
• VA: Video: Virginia AG Tells EPA To Go Back To The Drawing Board Over Globaloney
• VA: Cuccinelli seeks to block EPA’s global-warming petition Attorney general disputes climate change...
• VA: Cuccinelli Fights the EPA
• VA: EPA, Countering Critics of Greenhouse Gas Findings, Says 'Science Is Settled'
• VA: Newly-Elected Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli: Activist!
• UT, TX, VA: Texas, Utah, Virginia Sue over Fraudulent Glo-Bull Warming
• AL, TX, VA: Three States Sue EPA Over Global Warming Ruling
• MS: Barbour Lobbies Fellow Governors to Oppose EPA Regulations
• FL, IN, SC, VA, TX, AL et al US states sue EPA to stop greenhouse gas rules [FL, IN, SC, VA, TX, AL...]
• Fed: Effort To Block EPA Greenhouse Ruling Now Bipartisan
• Fed: Senior Democrats floating bill to block EPA on plans for greenhouse gas rules
• Fed: US Reps from Mo. to propose blocking EPA gas rules
• Fed: Democrat slow learners wake up to EPA power grab ( CO2 Gas is a pollutant?)
• Fed: House Democrats challenge EPA on greenhouse gases
• Fed: Helter-Skelton: Key Lawmaker Reverses On Climate Action
• Fed: House GOP targets EPA rules
• Fed: US Sen. Rockefeller seeks EPA carbon rule delay

Action in support of EPA abuse of power:

• NYC et al: CLIMATE: States seek to intervene in challenge to EPA's endangerment finding

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☆☆ States Officially Rejecting Anthropogenic Global Warming

☆ Utah
☆ Arizona

[Thunder90]

Part of the healtcare deal with the far left is that a carbon tax bill will be passed, which not only starts up cap and trade, but taxes every transaction of the credits up to 20% of the agreed deal; both the initial sale money and the transaction tax money going to the IRS.

[o_zarkman44]

We need to install CONGRESSIONAL SCRUBBERS.

[gathersnomoss]

“”If EPA doesn’t reopen the hearings we will move forward to try to stop them from regulating greenhouse gases,” said Brian Gottstein, an assistant to Virginia’s Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli.”

...GO Cuch!