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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The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution
repealed the Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution,
which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.
The Twenty-first Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933.
Don’t need electricity.....jus’ sayin’. I can cook, clean, heat, wash, et al without power...live off the grid. I ain’t Kartographer, but I can subsist on my own.
Question is, do YOU need electric generation?
Don’t need electricity.....jus’ sayin’. I can cook, clean, heat, wash, et al without power...live off the grid. I ain’t Kartographer, but I can subsist on my own.
Question is, do YOU need electric generation?
Joe Manchin must have sent him an SOS.
Mitch wouldn’t lift a finger for one of us.
I might die, but let them come and take it...
Was the 18th repealed by Congress or did it take a majority of states to pass it?
I will watch for sgtbob on an upcoming episode on the history channel of “cajuns hunting alligators”.
The 21st amendment is unique among the 27 amendments of the U.S. Constitution for being the only one to have been ratified by state ratifying conventions.
“...Question is, do YOU need electric generation?...”
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Yes, to power my computer and internet connection.
Hehehehe! Alligator andouille sausage ain’t so bad...really good if ya wrap it in a seafood gumbo.
Hehehehe! Alligator andouille sausage ain’t so bad...really good if ya wrap it in a seafood gumbo.
...and to keep my beer cold...
Just coal!? How Bout Barry’s war on America, the Constitution, the WESTERN WORLD!
Geez o’Pete!
What the Hell is this milquetoast doing in the Senate?
Translation: “I sure don’t have the guts to do it.”
Sorry for you....I don’t need such to provide for my family. I fear for you, and you have my prayers.
The Senate Leader, Harry Reid, is going to block McConnell, and there’s nothing McConnell can do about it.
Little cajun girl from Eunice that I work with brings me some boudin from time to time.
If you brew a good beer, it doesn’t need to be cold.
Congress exercised its disposal rights by passing the 21st Amendment to state ratifying conventions, not state legislatures, because the bootlegging interests had their tentacles so deeply entrenched into law enforcement and politics at state, county and local levels that it feared that the state legislatures would not ratify in the seven year window Congress had attached to it. Thus state ratifying conventions.
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