Posted on 03/09/2021 4:46:33 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
EXCLUSIVE - A coalition of 12 states is suing President Biden's administration over a climate executive order that they claim has the potential to have a serious economic impact across the country through the expansion of federal regulatory power.
The suit, which is being led by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, was filed on Monday. State attorneys general from Arkansas, Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah also joined the action.
It alleges that Biden’s Executive Order 13990, titled “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis,” does not have the authority to issue binding numbers for the “social cost” of greenhouse gases to be used in federal regulations.
The breakdown of the social costs shows $269 billion for carbon dioxide, $990 billion for methane, and $8.24 trillion for nitrous oxide – totaling approximately $9.5 trillion, according to the lawsuit, which cited interim values determined by an interagency working group that was created by Biden’s order.
Schmitt said that those potential regulations will stifle manufacturing and harm agriculture in Missouri, where state figures show that hundreds of thousands of people work in those industries.
“Under President Biden’s executive order, which he didn’t have the authority to enact, these hard-working Missourians who have lived and worked this land for generations, could be left in the dust,” Schmitt said in a written press release.
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He's making law out of whole cloth, not enforcing already passed laws.
Yes, he is making “laws” as a dictator, totally bypassing Congress. But I bet when this gets to SCOTUS, they will punt by saying the states have no standing...or something.
Laches, or the new legal term since Biden was installed in office, “socks don’t match”.......
As someone pointed out, to ensure liberty, there are four boxes, enacted in order and as necessary.
The soap box
The voter box
The jury box
The ammo box
Right now we’re in the jury box phase on this one. I hope it is sufficient.
You can’t spend by Executive Order.
The only reason he is doing this is his Puppet Master knows it would never pass the House.
The jury box phase passed by when SCOTUS refused to hear any 2020 election cases. Right now people are just beginning to realize this and are looking around for others
According to real scientists like prof Happer,
the cost of Co2 is NEGATIVE!
Fossil fuels are good for us, adding needed Co2 to the atmosphere.
https://thebestschools.org/special/karoly-happer-dialogue-global-warming/happer-major-statement
I agree. Personally, I think our tolerance is higher than it was back in the day, but his phrase from the declaration of independence is, I suspect, about to be invoked:
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.”
When these morons went along with the election scam… what did they THINK was going to happen? Seriously!!!
Yeah, good luck in court conservatives. Should have woken up decades ago when the leftist machine was being built.
Defeatist talk never won anything.
Just ignore the orders.
The sooner states cut the strings to DC money the sooner the DC programs will wither on the vine.
Hussein WAS the front man with an earpiece.
It’s all he’ll ever be.
Missouri out in front of the resistance again. Thanks MO AG Eric Schmitt. Keep up the great work. Mike Parson should broker the 30 Republican state governors to resist the entire Deep State agenda.
Biden sued by 12 states
Why bother we know how the yellow robes will rule recall any of the cases against Obama?.
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