Supreme Court tells EPA, “Not this time”
It seems like every time we read or hear a news story regarding the Environmental Protection Agency, it’s about ridiculously strict regulations that put people out of jobs, companies out of business and entire communities in jeopardy.
The EPA’s War on Coal, which unfairly targets one of our country’s most abundant resources, has destroyed the lives of many hard-working Americans. For years, the EPA has been getting away with forcing power plants to spend huge chunks of money to limit their emissions in order to meet very difficult EPA standards.
That’s why I take great pleasure in letting you know about this important decision.
After leaders from 21 states and a number of industry groups led a challenge against the EPA, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in a 5-4 vote that the EPA “unreasonably” failed to consider the cost of their regulations. It was a big victory for coal-powered and oil-powered plants.
Justice Antonin Scalia summed it up very nicely when he wrote that it is not appropriate to impose billions of dollars of economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits. The court ruling added that, “EPA must consider cost – including cost of compliance – before deciding whether regulation is appropriate and necessary.
Do you think this Supreme Court ruling will convince lower courts to make these same kinds of judgments in the future? Or are we doomed to eventually lose to the EPA and the liberals who run it? I’d love to hear your thoughts about it.
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Still 24 Feb 2017. The Supreme Court hasn’t had a 5-4 vote in nearly a year with the death of Justice Scalia last year. Why aren’t there are any dates attached to postings? I guess old news is still news if you haven’t heard it yet.
The EPA is telling people in Alaska to quit burning wood in their fireplaces. Does anybody know if is true?
My grandson is a chemist at a coal fired plant. He has to constantly check the pollution and the water going out of the plant. What is going out is cleaner that what comes in from nature. But the
EPA never seems to be satisfied.
I realize that I’m casting pearls but coal is one of the more polluting fuels in use. What good is a job if the environment is too hostile for humans to survive? People can’t wish away the reality described by the vast majority of climate scientists. I’ve had my say, so go ahead and start calling me names, but my conscience is clear on this issue.
I WISH you all would proof read your comments before submitting them; it is a shame when a quality idea is gutted by stupid mistakes.
EPA is doing the bidding of obummer. If these people are American, why don’t they stand up to him?
It’s bout time that the EPA is taken down a peg or two. However, the sad fact is this, we all have to pay for their screw up. We pay if the EPA wins or loses.
I guess it is too much to ask that the EPA use any form of common sense, but, that is like asking pigs to fly over the White House. DUCK!!!! There goes another one.
If we get another Democrat in the White House for POTUS I am afraid we will see many more unreasonable expensive and unnecessary regulations because more Supreme Court nominees will be liberals! We have to pray that this does not happen!
More company’s need to stand up and fight for our rights we need to fight back in order to take our country back the US is the only country that goes to war to protect our freedom
This could be a good start
Amarica needs to wake
This is a welcome decision to Hoosiers.We have abundant coal and most of our power plants are coal fired. Recently a small municipal power plant had to close due to EPA’s emissions rulings. This should give a new lease on life to Indiana’s power companies and welcome relief to all consumers and co-op members.
Following the 1st oil embargo, Nixon issued a presidential edict that all boiler fuel in the future would be coal, as the U.S had it in abundance. Then we have this idiot, who was in Africa at the time, have the liberal idea that anything that burns is evil. The Nixon edict has not been discussed in the public forum since Nairobi Obie came to power. Our system doesn’t work. It’s under control of the Zombies and the Cronies, with what’s left of the middle class unrepresented and without a voice in their governance.
EXCUSE ME, EXCUSE ME PETE, but, you need to be politically correct here. Zombies preferred to called “The Walking Dead”, Thank-you very much. :-)
Lets just punish the coal industry for the power plants not using the best pollution control like the should. In Denver, the Cherokee plant used to use scrubbers now with Excel running the plant they dropped the best pollution control they had.
I’m with Dale on this, they all need a trip to the ole wood shed. But wait, who will clean up the coal dust as we paddle their behinds?
I wash my hands of the whole thing. Let the EPA do its job, that is what they are there for, right? You mean to say that they’re not? Hell, then what good are they, I would like to know.
the epa .should be closed down all lebrels fired
All liberals including the EPA, are just like muslims. They advance their cause one small piece at a time, hoping no one will notice. Then one morning we wake up and find that they have taken over the entire country. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
Well if they do take over the country; they had better bring the donuts.
The SCOTUS has 4 intelligent members, one who waffles between deep thought and activism, and 4 activists/socialists. At least the one waffler got this one right. He got the “definition of marriage” wrong.
I guess that’s what you get for updating your marital status on Face Book.