Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Environmental Activists Resume 'Sue-and-Settle' | The Pipeline

Environmental Activists Resume 'Sue-and-Settle' | The Pipeline
"...nineteen public interest groups have sent joint letters to Republican House and Senate leadership calling for an investigation of, and and an all-out effort to block Biden’s end-run around Congress to impose the Green New Deal through a regulatory backdoor.
  • The move, uncovered by chance in open records requests, contains the worst elements of Washington: bureaucrats cycling in and out of office, 
  • collusion with ideological activists and, 
  • when democracy slams the front door shut, find a backdoor “sue-and-settle” resolution.
This plan to exclude the people's voice and enable governmental overreach was developed over months between progressive state attorneys general and former career U.S. Environmental Protection Agency attorneys and other staff now turned environmental activists.
  • They never stop, they never sleep, they never quit.
Their proposed method to circumvent Congress gets into the weeds -- a secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions -- but would fundamentally transform the Clean Air Act into an unrecognizable and never intended framework for economy-wide decarbonization.
This has never been authorized by any Congress nor approved by any court. 
In fact, this plan came about precisely because of past legislative and judicial rejections...READ ALL!!

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