Cool news on the Environmental front
The greenies have long used our legal system to stymie things they do not like.
There is no body of law to protect "nature" but if they can find a specific critter (
Spotted Owl,
Delta Smelt, etc...) endemic to their area of interest, they can use the legal system to "protect" that species and therefore prohibit the use of that habitat.
The same thing is true of the whole Anthropogenic Global Warming stupidity and the efforts to seriously curtail the emission of a crucial plant food on the misunderstanding that CO
2 causes global warming and that we need to clamp our civilization to pre-industrial levels in order to survive.
Fortunately, the Supreme Court had a thing or two to say about this process.
From the
Huffington Post:
Supreme Court Blocks Climate Change Lawsuit Filed By States
The Supreme Court blocked a federal lawsuit Monday by states and conservation groups trying to force cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
The court said that the authority to seek reductions in emissions rests with the Environmental Protection Agency, not the courts. The ruling was 8-0.
Now if someone would bring suit for an endangered species (Delta Smelt say...) and get the rest of this tawdry business settled.
8-0 with Justice Sotomayor recusing herself is a pretty strong statement.
Posted by DaveH at June 20, 2011 4:28 PM