Supreme Court Climate Case Looks At EPA's Power

[Auggie]

Last edited Sun Feb 23, 2014, 12:38 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON (AP) — Industry groups and Republican-led states are heading an attack at the Supreme Court against the Obama administration's sole means of trying to limit power-plant and factory emissions of gases blamed for global warming.

As President Barack Obama pledges to act on environmental and other matters when Congress doesn't, or won't, opponents of regulating carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases cast the rule as a power grab of historic proportions.

The court is hearing arguments Monday about a small but important piece of the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to cut the emissions — a requirement that companies expanding industrial facilities or building new ones that would increase overall pollution must also evaluate ways to reduce the carbon they release.

Environmental groups and even some of their opponents say that whatever the court decides, EPA still will be able to move forward with broader plans to set emission standards for greenhouse gases for new and existing power plants.


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[OKNancy]

1. Link is not working. Please paste this into your post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/23/supreme-court-climate-cas_n_4841901.html

Thanks, Nancy ( LBN host)

[Auggie]

5. Done

Thank you, OKNancy

[freedom fighter jh]

2. Some on the right see the whole climate change concern as a power grab.

They don't like the conclusion that it leads to -- government doing more -- so they say it can't be true. It's backwards thinking, a mindset that I fear may be shared by some on the Supreme Court.

[starroute]

3. Some right-wing bullies actively want to increase greenhouse gases

Anything that makes liberals squirm is a positive achievement from their viewpoint, and there's no room for larger concerns in their little minds.

[Auggie]

7. Yes … it's just about "winning"

Sociopathic behavior, IMO

[kristopher]

9. I think that motivation is real, it is strong, and it's overlooked.

Thanks for pointing it out.

[okaawhatever]

8. I think there's another part to it and that's that they are funded by pro-oil groups. A lot of money

to be made by promoting the oil industry's interests.

[Grassy Knoll]

4. Cons would rather be rich and right...

..Than Healthy and happy.
Assisted suicide on our planet, unlike Dr. Kevorkian, these fuckers do it
without consent.

[sulphurdunn]

6. It's impossible

to convince most brown energy corporatists and their flunkies that what makes them rich is destroying the world. Those you can convince will tell you that saving the world would cost too much anyway.

[SkatmanRoth]

10. Deniers can't win on science, so they take it to court

Get a lawyer and sue 'em - it's the American way.