Posted on 03/19/2015 7:46:25 PM PDT by PROCON
WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has begun an aggressive campaign to block President Obama’s climate change agenda in statehouses and courtrooms across the country, arenas far beyond Mr. McConnell’s official reach and authority.
The campaign of Mr. McConnell, the Senate majority leader, is aimed at stopping a set of Environmental Protection Agency regulations requiring states to reduce carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants, the nation’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Once enacted, the rules could shutter hundreds of coal-fired plants in what Mr. Obama has promoted as a transformation of the nation’s energy economy away from fossil fuels and toward sources like wind and solar power. Mr. McConnell, whose home state is one of the nation’s largest coal producers, has vowed to fight the rules.
Since Mr. McConnell is limited in how he can use his role in the Senate to block regulations, he has taken the unusual step of reaching out to governors with a legal blueprint for them to follow to stop the rules in their states. Mr. McConnell’s Senate staff, led by his longtime senior energy adviser, Neil Chatterjee, is coordinating with lawyers and lobbying firms to try to ensure that the state plans are tangled up in legal delays.
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When the GOP leadership shows positive efforts to stop Obama's unconstitutional train wreck, I'm with them.
Let's hope this effort by McConnell goes somewhere.
McConnell is an effeminate POC. I will never care what he says again.
Eff coal, if that’s what Michelle McConnell loves....hell, I gotta lifetimes worth of wood around my home;-)
Yes, the war on coal is bad for the country and bad for the economy.
Remind me again why I should have any expectation that Yertle will be successful in combating it, and why I should get all excited about supporting his effort.
You can pound coal-tar sand, McConnell.
Good, vote democrap next time!
Wood and old wood stoves and heaters are on the list also.
You have wood fired power generators?
What planet do you live on?
Bonehead and McConnell always look for others to fight their battles for them. Bonehead and The Gobbler have tools to stop Obama’s insanity.
Yet they look to others to hide behind such as the courts and now states.
After all the GOP has majorities in both houses.
You mean like Obama?
You fight fire with fire.
McDumbo resisting the EPA and the feckless one? What a sad joke, a pathetic joke. Get a spine of iron Mcdumbo!! I guess it is too late as Rhino Alzheimer’s has destroyed your brain.
If someone doesn’t start resisting the “Won”, we are more screwed than you can imagine.
You are correct. I just want someone with a steel determination to do it. Have any suggestions?
For the time being, we have to go with what we have, when they do good we back them, when they don’t, they hear from us.
Noting that Reid is/was much worse than McConnell imo, I think that RINO McConnell should be on top of list of reasons to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.
All that McConnell needs to do to stop the constitutionally undefined EPA dead in its tracks is the following. He needs to point out that not only have the states never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate environmental issues, but even if the states had delegated such power to the feds, Congress has no constitutional authority to delegate such powers to non-elected federal bureaucrats like those running the EPA.
The 17th Amendment has to go.
Who has the majority in the House and Senate?
You fight fire with fire by using the MAJORITIES the GOP House and Senate.
“For the time being, we have to go with what we have, when they do good we back them, when they don’t, they hear from us.”
Like him or not, he is what we have, and I like the move that he’s making here. Bamm-Bamm and his minions are stretched now, they can’t take on numerous states on numerous issues (illegal aliens, the EPA, Obamacare) all at once. And it’s about half past time that some states got together in open defiance of illegal federal actions. They do back down when this happens.
How does one repeal a Constitutional Amendment?
How does one repeal a Constitutional Amendment?
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Shirley, you know the answer to that.
If McConnell is encouraging state legislators to fight Obama at their state level, than good on him.
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