Posted on 04/07/2023 2:00:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A judge canceled the air quality permit for a natural gas power plant that’s under construction along the Yellowstone River in Montana citing worries over climate change.
State District Judge Michael Moses ruled Thursday that Montana officials failed to adequately consider the 23 million tons of planet-warming greenhouse gases that the project would emit over several decades.
Many utilities across the U.S. have replaced coal power with less polluting natural gas plants in recent years. But the industry remains under pressure to abandon fossil fuels altogether as climate change worsens.
The $250 million plant is being built by Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based NorthWestern Energy and would operate for at least 30 years. The company will appeal the order, a spokesperson said in a statement Friday, saying that the ruling could jeopardize reliable power service.
Montana officials had argued they had no authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. They also said that because climate change is a global phenomenon, state law prevented them from looking at its impacts.
But Moses said officials from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality had misinterpreted the law. He ordered them to conduct further environmental review and said they must gauge the climate change impacts within Montana in relation to the project. Major flooding on the Yellowstone last year wiped out bridges and triggered widespread evacuations following extreme rains, which scientists say are becoming more frequent as the climate changes.
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The company should cut off power to his home and utterly, adamantly refuse to turn it back on.
Cut off all power and fuel to that damn judges houses. Then blow up the wires and pipes.
Heard the Saudis are helping jomentia wean us off of petro products too. Thank. Sincerely, Gaia.
If this “judge” has any electrical, gas, or oil appliances or machinery, he should be disbarred for hypocricy....
“The company should cut off power to his home and utterly, adamantly refuse to turn it back on.”
The judge should be okay with this since it’ll help save the planet, right?
Can you imagine the catastrophic catastrophe if Montana winters ever warmed by a degree?
Russians will be nice and toasty, though.
So judges are still have the ultimate power over the other two branches of government. So where are the conservative judges that can overrule this turkey?
how do these people get the power to do this, alwways thought a judge was to enforce the written law not create his own.
Next week news:
“Montana judge missing”
A judge is just a lawyer with too much power.
Y’all hit the nail on the head.
“So judges are still have the ultimate power over the other two branches of government”
courts were never meant to have this
kind of power.
Y’all know what destroyed America?
Marbury v Madison,16th, and 17th amendments.
I’d throw in the 19th amendment, but my wife would shoot me.
Matt and Amy are writing for their sixth grade "newspaper."
Can someone direct me to any statistic that proves that statement? Just curious.
The judge is a scientist?
This isn’t the commie bass turd’s job. He’s just a lowlife bottom feeding “judge”. He’s not G-d. Da “enviomen” isn’t his problem.
effing morons. they’ll be the death of us.
Why are we allowing ONE PERSON to decide energy policy for us? This should be the job of the legislature and governor.
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