Posted on 06/26/2012 12:04:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld the first-ever U.S. proposed rules governing heat-trapping greenhouse gases, clearing a path for sweeping regulations affecting vehicles, coal-burning power plants and other industrial facilities.
Handing a setback to industry and a victory to the Obama administration, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously ruled the Environmental Protection Agency's finding that carbon dioxide is a public danger and the decision to set limits for emissions from cars and light trucks were "neither arbitrary nor capricious."
The ruling, which addresses four separate lawsuits, upholds the underpinnings of the Obama administration's push to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, and is a rebuke to a major push by heavy industries including electric utilities, coal miners and states like Texas to block the EPA's path.
In the 82-page ruling, the three-judge panel also found that the EPA's interpretation of the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide regulations is "unambiguously correct."
The court also said it lacked jurisdiction to review the timing and scope of greenhouse gas rules that affect stationary sources like new coal-burning power plants and other large industrial sources.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the court found the agency "followed both the science and the law in taking common-sense, reasonable actions to address the very real threat of climate change by limiting greenhouse gas pollution from the largest sources."
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America of old died today.. the green crowd cheered as the freedoms our ancestors enjoyed were strip mined away by Anonymous Judges in Black Robes.
The mindless hordes of environuts use courts to confound common sense and basic science.. and pretend that sane stewardship is their goal.. yet they take insane actions to accomplish their agenda.. and many in Congrea$$e and DC applaud.
The history of the cosmos is a long one. Those who claim our environment is being lost if we do not act radically sentence our progeny to certain disaster at a quicker pace is all.. but that's what busybodies do while waiting for the next planet crusher to hit.
Good luck, America. You're gonna need it.
Lets all remember... this ruling was made by a Washington DC appeals court.
Let’s see what the SC says.
Is the D.C. Court of Appeals as bad as the 9th Circus?
Lets all remember... this ruling was made by a Washington DC appeals court.
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and supposedly one of the more sane courts ..
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Let’s see what the SC says.
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lol.. Which one?
The one that backs illegals rights more than citizens or the one that occasionally backs the Constitution to keep the shell game going in DC and foreign capitals?
If necessary, at gunpoint.
</sarcasm> Congress sold us out when they gave the EPA unlimited authority. Idiots or traitors, you pick.
What Congress giveth, Congress can taketh away. All it would take would be a President to push for a law that takes away EPA's "discretion" with regards to carbon dioxide. Would Mitt do such a thing? I'm not holding my breath.
Congress sold us out when they gave the EPA unlimited authority. Idiots or traitors, you pick.
OR
Congress sold us out..... traitors........
I gotta say this enviro loose cannon stuff makes me nuts. CO2 is what we breathe OUT. Want to have some fun with an enviro wacko? Ask them where the electricity comes from behind those little beige sockets in the wall? You know, the socket they want to plug into for their electric cars that will NOT work in a blizzard here in Wisconsin? See what they say? Honest to God, I’ve had more than one nutcase NOT even know - COAL PLANTS. Lots of energy here is from COAL PLANTS. They have NO CLUE where electricity is made. Try it.
War on the economy during the depression.
Horsesheit. Itsahoot has it correct. The "robes" merely said that they respect Congress's popularly elected authority to create the EPA (on recommendation from Richard Nixon) and the elected Executive's choice (80 million idiots voted for Obama) to exercise the authority the Congress has granted them.
Just because the sh!t now makes it out of the pipes into the bright of day doesn't mean "America of old died today."
She's been assaulted by a million cuts of apathy and well meaning over 50 years. You're just now noticing?
Do these clown realize plant life consumes CO2. Public nuisance is a crock.
I disagree. We were sold out by the USSC with the "New Deal" interpretation of the Commerce Clause. It amounted to an open-ended grant of power to Congress that is inconsistent with the original intent of the clause.
Congress has then delegated that power to career bureaucrats that have proven over and over again they cannot be trusted to exercise it within the constaints of common sense. They have assumed a power which was (for good reason) not granted, and that needs to be corrected.
2nded If we can abolish that lawless edict then perhaps a whole house of other related acts of unbound power can be abrogated.
Who’s got the picture of a mob with torches and pitchforks? The US is moving beyond the ability of the people to bring it back from the cliff within the system.
Exactly this will go to the SC, and I can’t imagine it will stand as is.
What fools. Do they realize that every mammal exhales CO2? Do they realize that water vapor is a greater greenhouse gas?
They’ll control water before too long.
Food, water, and energy. Control those, control everyone.
They have NO CLUE where electricity is made
My ten year old son’s teacher informed his class that the cooling towers are where they explode atomic bombs and turn them into electricity. Then told them to make sure they don’t use electricity from a nuclear power plant so they don’t die from radiation.
Don’t forget education (brainwashing), rationing healthcare, your money...
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