Posted on 06/19/2018 8:18:40 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A federal appeals court Tuesday rejected environmentalists’ arguments that the Trump administration has to evaluate the climate change impact of leasing federal land for coal mining.
The three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously ruled that the Interior Department is not obligated to update its 1979 review of the environmental impact of the federal coal program, despite substantial new scientific findings about climate change and the significant role that coal plays in warming the atmosphere.
The judges said that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) doesn’t compel a new environmental impact statement.
“The fact that actions continue to occur in compliance with the program does not render the original action incomplete. Accordingly, the department’s NEPA obligation for the Federal Coal Management Program terminated with its adoption in 1979,” Judge Harry Edwards, nominated to the court by former President Jimmy Carter, wrote in the ruling.
The judges further argued that NEPA only requires a new analysis when a program is new or changes significantly, which isn’t the case for the coal program.
“Appellants have failed to identify any specific pending action, apart from the program’s continued existence, that qualifies as a ‘major federal action’ under NEPA,” Edwards said.
The ruling is a major blow for greens, who argue that the federal government is significantly contributing to climate change by allowing so much coal mining on federal land.
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Greens should be banned from using electricity in any form.
“Greens should be banned from using electricity in any form.”
….and fossil fuels.
Winning
This is good
Just in time to counter the effects of no Sunspots
(That's imminent ice age for those in Rio Linda)
That sentence implies that the court took the significant evidence into account as if it were factual. Evidence is not fact.
“Greens should be banned from using electricity in any form.”
….and fossil fuels.
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and any product made from ‘fossil’ fuels ...
true greenies would wander naked and homeless, eventually dying of starvation.
true greenies would wander naked and homeless, eventually dying of starvation.
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true greenies have too much money to die of anything but natural causes or drugs ...
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