Posted on 05/30/2024 6:16:32 AM PDT by Twotone
[BOISE] – Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador joined a 19-state coalition asking the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional the efforts of California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Rhode Island to dictate the future of American energy policy. Those five states have brought unprecedented litigation against the nation’s most vital energy companies for an alleged “climate crisis,” and are demanding billions of dollars in damages. As litigation proceeds in their individual state courts, California and the others threaten to impose ruinous penalties and coercive remedies that would affect energy and fuel consumption and production across the country.
“It’s not a new tactic to sue an industry to force a social agenda, but the stakes have never been higher,” said Attorney General Labrador. “We cannot let national energy policy be driven by a handful of activist states pushing their climate change agenda. This will just increase prices for everyone at the pump while crippling our national economy.”
The Supreme Court will decide whether to hear the Alabama-led 19-state lawsuit against California and the other four proposed defendants. The coalition’s filing includes a motion, complaint, and brief, which argue that traditional energy sources like oil, natural gas, and coal are essential for American prosperity. The states also argue that the matter is of utmost importance because our system of federalism gives each state no more power than any other state.
In April, Alabama also led a 20-state amicus brief in the Supreme Court asking the Court to review a lawsuit filed by the City and County of Honolulu, which also seeks to impose billions of dollars in penalties on the energy industry. Honolulu claims that the companies deceived consumers about the emissions created by everyday products like gasoline. The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the energy companies’ request to hear the case.
The Alabama-led motion was also joined by attorneys general from Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Truth is, there is a very small group of very rich foreign agitators bribing and buying various government official’s in an a attempt to weaken our nation.. Their plan is working well. :(
True, but as we’ve seen, the right president can stop them cold. Trump had us energy Independent in no time flat- have a friend who works in the energy sector who was lamenting that fact, fearing he wouldn’t get as much $$, but his wages never went down, so not sure what his gripe was.
Their plan is working extremely well. The Democratic party is all-in with it. A fair number of Republicans are with it as well.
A friend has video running continuously on his computer at his home.
I was doing some chores for him and this extremely slick propaganda video was on, explaining how important it was for the USA to convert to wind and solar, so we would not "fall behind" the Chinese.
At the same time, they were saying it was essential for us to go first, and not worry about Chinese and Indian contributions to CO2 levels, because we had to "lead the way" and prove we were sincere, or some such non-sense.
They continually spouted that wind and solar were cheaper and better power supply sources than petrochemicals.
It was a very slick production, and very convincing if you did not understand the assumptions which were built in from the beginning, and never questioned.
Our education system doesn’t equip people with a “BS Meter”.
bkmk
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