Posted on 07/10/2022 3:39:22 PM PDT by karpov
To adapt what Stalin said of the Pope, how many divisions does the Supreme Court have? That seems to be the implicit slogan of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who on Thursday ignored the High Court’s recent ruling with a proposed rule requiring states to reduce CO2 emissions on highways—that is, banish gas-powered vehicles.
In West Virginia v. EPA, the Court ruled that regulatory agencies can’t impose costly new regulations without a clear direction from Congress. The feds had interpreted an obscure corner of the Clean Air Act to impose costly climate rules on power plants.
Now the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) wants to take this abuse of authority on the road. It cites an obscure provision in federal law that authorizes it to set national “performance” goals for the national highway system. The law defines these goals as safety, infrastructure condition, congestion reduction, system reliability, freight movement and economic vitality, environmental sustainability and reduced project delivery delays.
FHWA says this “environmental sustainability” language allows it to regulate CO2 emissions. Mr. Buttigieg needs a vocabulary lesson. Climate and environment are different even if the left conflates them.
While rising CO2 emissions over time affect the climate, these effects are global. Federal highway performance standards are intended to protect the local environment from traditional vehicle pollutants such as NOx or from highway construction. Brushing past this inconvenient distinction, FHWA declares that its “proposed GHG measure would help the United States confront the increasingly urgent climate crisis.”
The Biden Administration’s climate ends always justify its illegal regulatory means. FHWA claims that states will have flexibility in setting CO2 reduction targets but in the same breath declares they must align with the Administration’s goals to reduce emissions. In other words, states have flexibility as long as they do as the Administration tells them.
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What makes these lawless leftist turds think Americans will give a sh*t about their mandates?
When will the USSC hold these people in criminal contempt?
Will they name it “the old hershey highway” in his honor?
Buttplug can stick that up his....
States should ignore federal law if the feds don’t want to adhere to Constitutional Law.
Tinkerbell ignores SCOTUS and illegally proposes states somehow to reduce CO2 on highways ... btrw, tinkerbell can kill two birds with one stone if he concentrates on racist highway CO2 ...
The Brandon administration will just ignore the court. It’s not like Democrats haven’t done it in the past.
Andrew Jackson ignored the Supreme Court inorder to commit genocide on the Cherokee and Chocktaw people.
Who’s to stop them?
buttcheeks is doing all it can to prove queers have a place in federal administration.
What makes us think they’ll abide by SCOTUS rulings. We know they won’t.
He'd enjoy it.
Pete is too busy nursing his baby and keeping his husband satisfied to do his job.
Guess that we will just have to ignore his edicts the same way that he ignores SCOTUS.
Let’s dance!
We know where the slimeball lives.
We also know that Democrats allow picketing and burning.
So.................
We are dealing with seasoned radical leftists who are trained to not give up the fight until they are being dragged away in handcuffs. What started in 1968 at the DNC Convention has come full circle.
I sure wish they would. These rats are going to keep crapping all over the Constitution until somebody puts a stop to it. They’re out of control.
They have completely decided, all along the line, they are going to ignore the Constitution and the laws derived from it.
They are going to just do that until someone stops them.
When Trump got things passed, we heard from the leftist states that they FULLY intended to ignore that ruling.
Good question. But lots a luck with that. It only took them 50 years to figure out that abortion is not in the Constitution. They are afraid, and will do nothing.
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