Posted on 05/01/2018 11:08:50 AM PDT by rktman
Eighteen states on Tuesday sued President Trump’s administration over its push to “reconsider” greenhouse-gas-emission rules for the nation’s auto fleet, launching a legal battle over one of Barack Obama’s most significant efforts to address climate change.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt in April said he would revisit the Obama-era rules, which aim to raise efficiency requirements to about 50 miles per gallon by 2025. Pruitt’s agency said that the standards are “based on outdated information” and that new data suggests “the current standards may be too stringent.”
But in the lawsuit, the states contend that the EPA acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” in changing course on the greenhouse-gas regulations.
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Arbitrary and capricious describes the out of control government 2009-2016.
Remind me again where the Constitution give the judicial branch authority to veto decisions that are within the Constitutional domain of the executive branch?
“....launching a legal battle over one of Barack Obama’s most significant efforts to address climate change. ...”
Uh, WaPo, YOUR president couldn’t pass a third grade class on science. He would fail an attempt to build the standard elementary school science fair volcano.
Keep trying, though. Those of us who are actually STEM types capable of passing math and physics are always entertained reading journalist opinions of things they will never understand.
It’s spelled out next to abortions up to age 2 and requiring gun registration. You can’t miss it.
What court, the 9th circus?
The requirements for automakers to have minimum fleet-average MPG means consumers pay A LOT more for automobiles, both new, and in repairs.
The fuel-injectors, turbo-charges, multi-speed transmissions, and electronics to run it all means you pay a lot more up-front, and also a lot more to repair cars when they malfunction. The lighter body plastics and aluminum needed to make cars lighter also means a simple fender-bender costs you a minimum of $3000 in cosmetic repairs.
I see NYS is one of the 12.
Figures.
They aren’t laws.
They are regulations passed bu administrative agencies.
Those agencies report to POTUS and can be undone accordingly.
This is over before it starts. It might have to pass a few hurdles due to judge shopping.
Well, they won’t be getting any lead pollution from Hornady ammo any more so that’s a plus.
Which were the other 17 ?
Didn’t see a list but probably the usual suspects OR, WA, CA, NY, NJ, DE and others not mentioned either.
What I could find:
California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.
Cosmetic repairs my butt!! “Saran Wrap” automobiles running on the highways are going to result in $3000 expenses for COFFINS, one for each passenger.
Auto body repairs will be a thing of the PAST. So will the owner/drivers.
Ah, bless their little commie hearts!
Cosmetic repairs my butt!! “Saran Wrap” automobiles running on the highways are going to result in $3000 expenses for COFFINS, one for each passenger.
Auto body repairs will be a thing of the PAST. So will the owner/drivers.
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“Saran Wrap” You’re so right. The 2025 goal of 50 mpg is insane. I had a 1971 BMW R75/5 motorcycle that only got about 38 mpg.
Unfortunately, the enabling legislation by Congress for the EPA gives the agency's regulations the full force of law. Of course the executive branch can repeal regs but I am sure the courts will rule against Trump on lack of hearings and other procedural matters in repealing the CAFE. That is what the tyrannical black robed federal judges do.
Like proposition 8 - I don’t think these states have standing to sue.
If they get some assclown fed judge to toss out an injunction and hang it up in the courts, it’s kind of a temp win for them.
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The referenced states are evidently not making sure that the federal government's constitutionally limited powers are being taught in their public schools as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood. Otherwise, school children would probably be able to point out the following major constitutional problem with federal EPA policy to their low-information state government leaders.
Since the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to police the environment, these misguided states are unthinkingly helping to expand the already unconstitutionally big, post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification federal government’s powers.
"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.
Note that even if the states had given the feds the specific constitutional power to police the environment, please consider this. It remains that the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress (sarc), to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected bureaucrats running constitutionally undefined federal regulatory agencies like the EPA, IRS, etc..
Note that by letting non-elected bureaucrats get away with stealing and exercising unique state powers, corrupt federal lawmakers are not only able to protect their voting records, but are wrongly nullifying voting power in the process.
And by protecting their voting records, career lawmakers are able to fool low-information voters, voters who evidently don't understand the fed's constitutionally limited powers, into reelecting them.
What a scam! 8^P
The remedy for unconstitutionally big federal government …
Patriots now need to be making sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots, candidates who will not only be willing to take constitutionally indefensible federal laws out of the books, but also be willing to support Trump in leading the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
Patriots then need to pink-slip career lawmakers by sending patriots candidate lawmakers to DC on election day.
And until the states wake up and repeal 17A, as evidenced by concerns about the integrity of the outcome of Alabama's and Pennsylvania's special elections, patriot candidates need to win elections by a large enough margin to compensate for possible deep state ballot box fraud, associated MSM scare tactics, and interference from people like Soros.
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