Posted on 04/28/2022 2:03:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Ten red states, led by Louisiana, asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block a Biden administration rule for figuring the costs of greenhouse gas pollution when the government makes decisions affecting the environment.
A January 2021 White House executive order directs an interagency working group to generate estimates for the societal costs of increased emissions of carbon, methane and nitrous oxide. The estimates are to be used to figure the monetary value of changes in these emissions resulting from government actions.
The states said the federal formulas inflate the estimated costs of oil and gas leasing and a host of other projects. They filed a lawsuit in federal court in Louisiana, and in February U.S. District Court Judge James D. Cain, Jr. temporarily blocked the use of the cost estimates.
The government appealed, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a stay of that ruling. The states are now asking the Supreme Court to lift that stay and let the judge’s ruling take effect.
In an emergency application, they called the Biden working group’s efforts “a power grab designed to manipulate America’s entire federal regulatory apparatus through speculative costs so that the administration can impose its preferred policy outcomes on every sector of the American economy.”
They said the court should block “the most consequential rulemaking in American history” while the lower courts decide its fate.
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“Red States”?
Nothing like editorializing in the headline.
Clarification of your true statement
Congress writes very broad legislation that is interpreted by a specific agency or department that then writes a rule that is the interpretation. Since the rule was submitted and reviewed it comes into effect with the force of the law written by congress.
My view is that America has become a nation of lawyers
CO2 less than 3.5 %.
Hopefully SCOTUS will come through with some sanity here.
On another note, I wish they’d get the red/blue thing sorted out.
Instead of complaining about desperate, elite Democratic inflated cost estimates, why don't the RINO government leaders of the red states do the following? Why don't they pull their 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty cards and point out that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to dictate INTRAstate policy for politically correct global warming?
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Also, patriots are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.
Insights welcome.
“Societal cost” of fewer crops due to reduced CO2? More famine for thee, more bucks for me.
Hopefully they repeal Wodick V Filborne.
Yup, we could all use a little 10A.
Yes....and Shakespeare was right.
<>Once a nation of laws, we are now a nation of “rules”.<>
Thank the 17th Amendment.
“Ten red states, led by Louisiana, asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block a Biden administration rule for figuring the costs of greenhouse gas pollution..”
Can you Union tards out there begin to get an inkling of why states wanted (want) to get away from this assholery?
What has the cost of George Floyd riots & lootings & burnings been???
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