Posted on 03/27/2018 8:58:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CHEYENNE — U.S. government officials who engage in regional planning for an area of Wyoming and Montana that supplies 40 percent of the nation’s coal must consider reducing coal mining as a way to fight climate change, a judge has ruled.
Friday’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Great Falls, Montana, applies to the Powder River Basin, where house-sized dump trucks haul loads mined around the clock from open-pit coal mines. Some of the mines measure more than a mile wide.
Morris rejected U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials’ argument that climate change could be addressed when they consider whether to allow individual mine expansions.
Morris ordered the government and environmental groups to work together on additional planning for the top U.S. coal producing region. He declined environmentalists’ request to halt mining.
Still, environmental groups praised the ruling.
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That better be appealed
Where do the so called “judges” (commie activists) get their authority to destroy the U.S. economy?
"We considered it, we rejected it"
What authority does that tyrant have to say such a thing?
Idiots on the bench..............................
Yes Judge, we did consider it.
We consider the entire concept a fraud.
Montana is now full of leftist psycho escapees from California....
They grant it to themselves.
The downfall of the American Republic began when we abandoned the practice of tar and feathers.
A Gorit Followers
A lump of coal at Christmas for the foolish judge brian morris.
A zillion years ago the southwest was covered with an ocean. It wasn’t power plant emissions that drained it. Nothing in this universe is static.
Impeach the overstepping judge to preserve liberty and economic freedom!
Our plant uses coal from these mines. it is an extremely low sulfur coal, low BTU and good for power plant use. Precipitators removed 99.9 % of the dust from the flue gases.
During the “O” administration the company was forced to shut down several of these power plants. The local one was forced to spend millions to “upgrade” to remove the last tiny bit of dust out of the flu gas.
“On March 11, 2013, Senator Max Baucus announced that he will recommend that President Obama nominate Morris to fill the vacancy on the United States District Court for the District of Montana caused by Judge Sam Haddon taking senior status, the vacant seat being located in Great Falls.”
I thought this kind of judicial activism was ended in the 1930s with West Coast Hotel v. Parrish and United States v. Carolene Products.
Your move.
Why? By what authority does this judge say this and does it have legal teeth, or is he just stating his personal opinion over drinks.
If this isn’t judicial over-reach, what is?
///”We considered it, we rejected it”///
That, truly, is the implication of the ruling. This will be the effect once the leftist Deep Staters in the Interior Department and the EPA are shown the door. Unfortunately, a future Obama will use the same ruling to reduce or stop mining.
In the 80’s I was working on uranium deposits near one of the largest mines in the Powder River Basin. The trucks are HUGE, but what I will always remember how giant the tires were. I couldn’t get my mind around mounting and filling up those tires. Many are now solid. Still . . . it was all impressive.
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