SCOTUS Laughs @ Climate Change

Can't be having people advance the species without the central planning department's approval, isn't that right, absent?
 
samUwell said:
Can't be having people advance the species without the central planning department's approval, isn't that right, absent?
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Should honestly just let Trump decide, he's got a very good brain, one of the best, unlike Dr. PhD over there.
 
hey u can do anything u want just make sure its been written into law first okay

THIS IS THE END OF THE REPUBLIC
 
They don't understand, because legislating from the bench has been a hallmark of the SCOTUS for decades. The left had turned the SC to the most powerful branch of the government, able to gin up new constitutional rights out of thin air when they can't get anything they want any other way. They use "settled law" as the basis for further encroachments into our rights, and ignoring original intent of existing constitutional amendments to make their own.

It's finally going back to that original intent of simply determining the constitutionality of a law, instead of inventing new ones. And the left hates it because it was for a long time the failsafe to enacting their agenda.
 
nobody believes this is about some deeper principle than protecting fossil fuel profits lol
 
Yeah, we should destroy fossil fuels before we introduce a different technology that will keep the human species advancing.
 
This is perfect timing now that Biden's gas hike is increasing coal production.
 
Flash said:
“Experts in a government agency” :rofl:

Absent is the gift that keeps on giving
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Absent is the type of theythems that believes that people get into govt for altruistic reasons, rather than "How can I get in on this racket?" and that life-long politicians like Ole Joe Biden isn't promoting people into positions of authority because they are Jewish or has a vagina or BiPOC vagina. No, Ole Joe is picking only the best of the best of the best, Zir.
 
cael said:
ppl actually thought the environmental protection agency was for protecting the environment
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:rofl:

only when the rivers of gold flow their way

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Toxic mine water accidentally released by EPA in Colorado river flows south | Colorado | The Guardian
 
Governments Are the Worst Polluters
It’s a familiar libertarian insight that regulation often holds government itself to lower standards than it does private actors.

Pension funds for public employees are mostly immune from the federal solvency and funding requirements that apply to their private counterparts; Federal Trade Commission rules against false advertising by profit-seeking companies do not restrain false advertising by government actors on the same topics; the FTC can fine companies massively for data breaches even as the federal government itself suffers gigantic losses of sensitive data to foreign actors with few career consequences for many of those who had dozed; anticompetitive practices that are per se illegal under antitrust law become legal when states do them, and so forth and so on.

Now David Konisky of Indiana University and Manuel Teodoro of Texas A&M, in a study published by the American Journal of Political Science entitled “When Governments Regulate Governments,” have pulled together some data:
Our empirical subjects are public and private entities’ compliance with the U.S. Clean Air Act and Safe Drinking Water Act.

We find that, compared with private firms, governments violate these laws significantly more frequently and are less likely to be penalized for violations.​

More from an Indiana press release, via Tyler Cowen:
For the study, Konisky and Teodoro examined records from 2000 to 2011 for power plants and hospitals regulated under the Clean Air Act and from 2010 to 2013 for water utilities regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The study included over 3,000 power plants, over 1,000 hospitals and over 4,200 water utilities — some privately owned and others owned by public agencies.

* For power plants and hospitals, public facilities were on average 9 percent more likely to be out of compliance with Clean Air Act regulations and 20 percent more likely to have committed high-priority violations.

* For water utilities, public facilities had on average 14 percent more Safe Drinking Water Act health violations and were 29 percent more likely to commit monitoring violations.

* Public power plants and hospitals that violated the Clean Air Act were 1 percent less likely than private-sector violators to receive a punitive sanction and 20 percent less likely to be fined.

*Public water utilities that violated Safe Drinking Water Act standards were 3 percent less likely than investor-owned utilities to receive formal enforcement actions.

[After speculating that public operators may find it harder to raise funds promptly for needed facilities improvements:] Public entities also face lower costs for violating the regulations, the authors argue. There is evidence from other studies that they are able to delay or avoid paying fines when penalties are assessed. And officials with regulatory agencies may be sympathetic to violations by public entities, because they understand the difficulty of securing resources in the public sector.​
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The Number One Worst Polluter on Earth Is... The U.S. Federal Government
2012

With Earth Day coming up this weekend, it might be helpful to remember that the worst polluter on planet Earth is not a major corporation, but the United States federal government, and if we're going to be serious about reducing our impact on the environment, we need to advocate for less, not more government.

Indeed, the federal government
is the single largest consumer of energy with 500,000 buildings and 600,000 vehicles. In 2009 alone, the government's bill for utilities and fuel totaled $24 billion, so it's no surprise that the government's carbon footprint is 123.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.

State and local governments are also among the nation's worst polluters. In Georgia for example, an investigation just last November found that the state and county governments are Georgia's worst polluters. In fact, over the last decade, dozens of county governments have racked up a total of more than $14 million in pollution fines and the state government itself is a major hazard to the environment too, with the Georgia Department of Transportation and its contractors alone racking up $1.3 million in pollution fines.

Yet even as awful as many state and local governments throughout the country are, the federal government is still by far, the worst polluter. And despite never-ending plans, promises, and programs from every administration to get its polluting under control (remember the Environmental Protection Agency was started over 40 years ago in 1970-- by a Republican) the pollution just keeps getting worse with no end in sight.
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In 2005, Lucinda Marshall, founder of the Feminist Peace Network,
wrote that the U.S. Department of Defense produces more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined. From cancer-causing depleted uranium ammunition and armor, to perchlorate rocket fuel leaking from literally hundreds of military plants and installations into the groundwater of 35 states, to the military's unquenchable thirst for fossil fuels-- the Department of Defense is polluting our environment more than anyone else.
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