Posted on 10/27/2015 1:51:49 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The legal barrage to halt the Environmental Protection Agency’s radical Clean Power Plan has begun.
A broad coalition of U.S. industry and business, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, and an armada of other business and industry organizations, has asked the D.C. District of the federal Court of Appeals to prevent any further action on the Plan until the court can decide its overall legal status.
The coalition filed a motion at their first opportunity on Friday to stay EPA’s long-awaited final rule governing the plan, immediately after the agency published the rule in the Federal Register—the official birth notice of the long-gestating plan to drastically remake the entire U.S. electrical system, and among other things create a nationwide trading system for carbon emissions that was blocked by the Senate in 2009.
The business coalition argues that a huge, unprecedented and illegal expansion of EPA authority over the country’s entire electrical power system will cause “irreparable harm” unless complicated planning process ordained by the rule is halted while that legal battle over the entire program is fought, a process likely to last through most of 2016, if not longer.
At least 26 state Attorneys General associations and as-yet uncounted numbers of individual companies separately asked the appeals court for a stay of the rule on roughly similar grounds.
As a motion by 24 states to the appeals court puts it, an “unprecedented, unlawful attempt by an environmental regulator to reorganize the nation’s energy grid” is intended to force the States and other bodies to make “immediate” and irreversible decisions to plan compliance with EPA’s rule before courts have ruled whether the plan is legal or not. . .
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This is how the Obama Agenda is being dealt with, everything he deems as a necessary passage - has to go through the courts to determine whether it is legal, constitutional or detrimental to the health of the American people. More money being spent on the legal hurdles just to appease a real jackass!
I think they picked the wrong court. I believe that one is liberal. Maybe they don’t have a choice.
Maybe not as far as which court, but they do have a choice about whether to keep obeying more and more draconian government edicts that defy the Constitution...
Now for a short public service announcement to all on FR:
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A few Bernie Sanders radicals at the EPA have “decided to drastically remake the entire U.S. electrical system, and among other things create a nationwide trading system for carbon emissions that was blocked by the Senate in 2009.”
Folks, this isn’t free government. It why I will not condone these high crimes with my vote in the 2016 congressional race
We need a stay on the EPA itself.
“This is how the Obama Agenda is being dealt with, everything he deems as a necessary passage - has to go through the courts to determine whether it is legal, constitutional or detrimental to the health of the American people. More money being spent on the legal hurdles just to appease a real jackass!”
I realized that many years ago. Lawyers, etc. are raking in millions, possibly billions in these last 7 years.
At least they are trying instead of taking bribes and rolling over like the republicans leadership.
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