Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/24/2010 5:55:00 PM PDT by Kaslin
While the United States Senate tries to decide what to do about proposed global warming legislation (the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act), Connecticut's attorney general and Democratic nominee for the Senate, Richard Blumenthal, is working to get courts to declare "cap and trade" regulations the law of the land.
Blumenthal's suit, Connecticut v. American Electric Power, is the most prominent of a handful of "climate change" lawsuits filed by environmental activists, state attorneys general and trial lawyers. These suits threaten to impose a steep tax on the American economy, with no input from our national elected representatives.
In 2004, Connecticut, along with seven other states, New York City and three environmental groups, filed suit against five companies responsible for "approximately one-quarter of the U.S. electric power sector's carbon dioxide emissions."
Their lawsuit sought to hold the companies "jointly and severally liable for contributing to an ongoing public nuisance, global warming" and asked the court to force each company "to abate its contribution to the nuisance by capping its emissions of carbon dioxide and then reducing those emissions by a specified percentage each year."
Blumenthal assumed center stage in promoting the suit and declared that "this legal crusade can help save lives and our planet from global warming."
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Linda McMahon will smack down BlumenDodd with this one.
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Watch very carefully ...which corporations donate how much to his campaign .
They are the ones carrying the manacles he’s trying to place o the American people.
Blumenfool.
Wow, why do we need legislatures at all? Or voters?
Thanks Kaslin.
Wasn’t Blumenthal the guy who watched the movie “Platoon” a dozen times?
This man is a menace to society, but these days that is synonymous with Democrat.
Thanks.
WOW... I sure hope so, Man50D.
“Now the Dems call global warming a “nuisance” ?”
No, but exposure to global warming made Blumenthal a “Public Nuisance”. The hot sun made him a delusional, causing him go around claiming that he was a Vietnam combat veteran.
Blumenthal's suit, Connecticut v. American Electric Power, is the most prominent of a handful of "climate change" lawsuits filed by environmental activists, state attorneys general and trial lawyers. These suits threaten to impose a steep tax on the American economy, with no input from our national elected representatives.
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Blumenthal assumed center stage in promoting the suit and declared that "this legal crusade can help save lives and our planet from global warming."
Could bite them in the anus. If this goes through the courts, and to the USSC, I don’t think it will stand.
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