18 states file to force EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions

[DeclinetoState]

Posted Apr 6th 2008 8:03PM by Sebastian Blanco (http://www.autobloggreen.com/bloggers/sebastian-blanco)
Filed under: Legislation and Policy (http://www.autobloggreen.com/category/legislation-and-policy/), Green Daily (http://www.autobloggreen.com/category/green-daily/), USA (http://www.autobloggreen.com/category/usa/)

Seventeen states are backing Massachusetts in a petition to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that would force the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Filed one year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the EPA needed to decide on regulating vehicle emissions - a year in which the EPA failed to take any action - the petition asks that the court demand the EPA release a decision in the next 60 days. When Massachusetts took the EPA to court in 2006 (http://www.autobloggreen.com/2006/09/05/massachusetts-v-epa-the-monkey-trial-of-the-century/) to decide the issue, the senior attorney for the Sierra Club, David Bookbinder, told Newsweek that the Supreme Court would have to issue a clear ruling. "There's really no wiggle room. Either EPA has this authority or not. It's a very plain language case," he said at the time. A year and a half later, here we are.

The states are: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia.More (http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/04/06/18-states-file-to-force-epa-to-regulate-greenhouse-gas-emissions/)

[PaulRevere]

I actually responded to the article with:
We are coming out of the coldest winter and summer in 100 years in some parts of the world, and the warmonger perpetrators of the biggest hoax in history are pushing us straight ahead with their economy-wrecking/ mass impoverishment/ freedom destroying scheme that will do NOTHING towards climate change. I despise those America-hating quasi-fascist globalcrat pseudo-intellectual morons!

[DoctorDoom]

So why did you hold back like that? :evilgrin:

[DoctorDoom]

VTY's reply:

stevefazeks' dazzling rhetoric is evidence of the intellectual level of Gorebots.

"Thirteen other entities, including the City of New York and the Mayor and City Council for Baltimore, Friends of the Earth, and the Sierra Club, signed onto the suit." How very surprising! *Insert rolling-eyes smiley here*

There is zero scientific evidence than man is (or even can be) responsible for Gorebull Warming. It has been far warmer and far cooler in times past, and puny little humans had nothing to do with either condition.

Question for the Gaia-worshippers: what makes you think that the present climate status is ideal or even normal? It is the height of human arrogance to think that we can dictate what is the norm.

A proposition for the ecowackos: since each adult human exhales about 800 pounds of CO2 each year, they can demonstrate their commitment to reducing "greenhouse gases" by giving Dr. Kevorkian some business.

Lastly, as a Massachusetts resident, I can confirm that the state is governed by sputum-drooling, knuckle-dragging imbeciles. Anything supported by those idiots in Boston should be ignored.

[sunsettommy]

"A proposition for the ecowackos: since each adult human exhales about 800 pounds of CO2 each year, they can demonstrate their commitment to reducing "greenhouse gases" by giving Dr. Kevorkian some business.

Lastly, as a Massachusetts resident, I can confirm that the state is governed by sputum-drooling, knuckle-dragging imbeciles. Anything supported by those idiots in Boston should be ignored."<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->


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