Posted on 01/27/2015 3:36:12 PM PST by Libloather
A federal appeals court has agreed to hear arguments in a pair of cases challenging the Obama administration’s climate rule proposal for power plants.
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said Tuesday that it will hear oral arguments from the various sides in the cases on the morning of April 16.
Twelve states, led by West Virginia, along with coal mining company Murray Energy Corp., filed separate lawsuits last year asking the court to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule to cut carbon pollution from power plants by 30 percent by 2030.
In briefs for both cases, the appellants say that the planned regulation is illegal because other pollutants from power plants are already regulated and the Clean Air Act prohibits “double regulation” of pollution sources.
The EPA asked the court to dismiss the cases because the rule has not been made final, and courts cannot review rules before they are finalized. The agency plans to finalize the regulations this summer.
Just who is this EPA fella?
Sorta agree. No standing without harm. However, once the harm is done it is usually too late.
Global warming is a hoax democrats created to grow government/socialism. This is tyranny. get rid of the EPA and 99% of similar agencies like IRS, HUD ,FDA, NASA, NOOA, etc
If the cultural Marxists have their way, we will all be freezing in the dark. “Shelter in place,” indeed.
Today would be a good time for these companies to just shut down all those polluting plants, let the Eastern Half FREEZE TO DEATH, leave the EPA phone number on your answering device.
As mentioned in related threads, note that “Environmental Protection Agency” (EPA) is not a constitutional term. In fact, the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, 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 federal bureaucrats like those running the EPA. So Congress has a constitutional monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not.
In fact, by unconstitutionally delegating legislative / regulatory powers to faceless government bureaucrats, Congress is wrongly protecting such powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of the statutes referenced above imo.
Also, note that even if Congress had the constitutional authority to delegate its powers to third parties like the EPA, it remains that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate environmental issues anyway. So corrupt Congress is delegating powers that it doesn’t have.
What a mess! 8^P
Just as a heads up to everyone, I received an email from a local business that said new standards for water heaters are going into effect soon. The way most manufacturers are going to meet these standards is by making the water heater walls thicker. This means that the newer heaters may not fit in places where the older heater was so that either the space will have to be enlarged or the homeowner will have to settle for a smaller capacity water heater.
There is still time to buy water heaters that are not thicker, but I don’t know how much. The life of water heaters is generally 10 to 13 years, so if you think you might need one soon, you might want to get one now.
Once again, the EPA is making our lives more difficult and costing us more money for no good reason.
Then again it has been speculated that the power companies are using the EPA ruling as an excuse to shut down high cost low efficiency units. Lower supply equals higher prices for KWH's.
Do yourself a favor and get an on demand water heater.
The higher the price, the more TAX revenue.
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