Posted on 07/13/2023 8:27:16 AM PDT by Twotone
Boise, ID – Attorney General Raúl Labrador joined a coalition of 20 state attorneys general led by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti in commenting on proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations regarding Ethylene Oxide (EtO) and related emissions standards promulgated under the Clean Air Act (CAA).
EtO is used to sterilize roughly 20 billion medical devices annually and there are no substitutes. Regulating EtO use and emissions could severely negatively impact the medical device supply chain and provision of healthcare in the United States. In a comment letter, the coalition urges the EPA to forgo or defer proposed regulations.
“The Biden administration proposed regulations highlight how one federal agency (EPA) will arbitrarily pursue restricting use of a product, effectively halting supply chains and access, while another (FDA) views the same product as being the only method that effectively sterilizes many medical devices. The EPA rate reduction labeling change of EtO will only decrease domestic market competition, undermine public health, and drive up the cost of healthcare,” Attorney General Labrador said.
The coalition notes the proposed regulations, if adopted, will force the adoption of new, untested technologies to sterilize medical devices. To avoid disruption to healthcare across the country, EPA should forgo the proposed regulations or extend the compliance period. Advertisement
Attorney General Labrador was joined in signing the letter by state attorneys general from Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
Read the letter in its entirety here.
https://www.ag.idaho.gov/content/uploads/2023/07/EtO-Comment-Letter-Signed.pdf
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
I’d rather see them fight vehicle regulations that make cars unaffordable to the average person.
Tomorrow the EPA will announce that after successfully banning all fossil fuel usage they will go after cavemen’s fires burning wood....
“Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
Sunlight?
You want your heart surgery done with medical instruments that were set out in the sun ?!
Cmon man .
Not the first time states have had it with Union Government.
This isn’t “Union Government”; it’s pure FASCISM.
"Press Release: AG Labrador Joins 20-State Coalition in Pushing Back Against EPA Rules [??? emphasis added]"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Regarding so-called EPA, citizens who need to meet with lawmakers and so-called federal agencies need to learn to not only get politicians and non-popularly elected bureaucrats to justify their policies with specific constitutional clauses, but also to document their responses to constitution-related questions so that their responses can possibly be use to later support their removal from office.
But beware that lawmakers and bureaucrats may no longer be willing to meet with you if you ask “too many” Constitution-related questions. And if that happens, at least primary the lawmaker.
In the case of the EPA, while the EPA is arguably a good idea, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to establish EPA, Nixon wrongly signing the constitutionally undefined executive order that established EPA imo.
In fact, consider the "US Mail test." More specifically since the EPA, for example, is not reasonably related to the US Mail Service or US Marshals, two of the very few federal agencies reasonably justifiable under the Constitution imo, then the agency is probably unconstitutional.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"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.
The unconstitutional EPA imo, is one more reason why both Democratic and Republican Trump supporters need to effectively "impeach and remove" ALL incumbents up for reelection in state and federal governments, except for Gaetz and MTG, by primarying them in 2024.
After all, lawmakers and executives continue to show that they do not have the patriotism and leadership skills necessary to find legislative support for effective remedies for unconstitutional government policies.
Again, given that one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the big, bad federal government to dictate peacetime domestic policy is to run the Mail Service (most federal domestic policy actually based on stolen state powers), the worst problem that the country would otherwise be looking at with a new Congress of freshman lawmakers is arguably a delay with mail delivery.
Trump can endorse candidates that Constitution-savvy patriots recommend as long as candidates are not incumbents, candidates also promising to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments after they win office.
The definition of insanity is reelecting your beloved career state and federal lawmakers and executives over and over again, expecting those same politicians to find remedies for unconstitutional government policies every time.
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