Posted on 03/27/2018 8:58:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CHEYENNE U.S. government officials who engage in regional planning for an area of Wyoming and Montana that supplies 40 percent of the nations coal must consider reducing coal mining as a way to fight climate change, a judge has ruled.
Fridays ruling by U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Great Falls, Montana, applies to the Powder River Basin, where house-sized dump trucks haul loads mined around the clock from open-pit coal mines. Some of the mines measure more than a mile wide.
Morris rejected U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials argument that climate change could be addressed when they consider whether to allow individual mine expansions.
Morris ordered the government and environmental groups to work together on additional planning for the top U.S. coal producing region. He declined environmentalists request to halt mining.
Still, environmental groups praised the ruling.
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All of the US Gov’t is apparently deeply involved in Legislation EXCEPT Congress.
What is wrong with this picture?
What actual law was this based on?
This is just nucking futs, even without the judicial activism.
Powder River Coal is cheaper and has less sulfur than Appalachin Basin coal.
Our citizens do not receive education, just indoctrination.
What law did the (activist masquerading as a) “judge” cite to justify his ruling?
Return to sender. Address unknown!
There’s one begging to be overturned.
Oh, look - a Federal judge-president has weighed in...
Did the lawyer from the Government stipulate to the strawman climate change argument? There’s a whole series of arguments that would need to be proven before you ever get ‘round to “and coal mining should be reduced”.
This is an Obama Judicial Dictator.
Ok. Considering... ... ... and, no.
ML/NJ
Adjudge doesn’t have the authority to regulate climate
No, they don’t. Judges don’t set policy.
No, they don’t. Judges don’t set policy.
“That better be appealed”
I think a blanket party in the parking lot would be more effective.
[[I couldnt get my mind around mounting and filling up those tires.]]
You gotta have a good set of lungs to fill them up
Lease the lands or give them back to the native Americans. Lets see the bastards stop it then.
The Powder River coal deposits are estimated to be slightly greater than 1 trillion tons.
They are being mined at a rate slightly in excess of 1 million tons per day (that’s a train consisting of 100 cars, each containing 100 tons of coal, every 15 minutes, 24 hours per day).
If it had been mined at that rate, starting at the time of Christ, it could continue to be mined for another 500 years into the future.
And that’s only a small part of the overall world coal deposits.
And all that carbon was once in the atmosphere.
Necktie party.
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