EPA loses – America Wins’: Supreme Court rules against overreach by EPA
Climate Depot’s Morano: “That’s one small step for climate sanity, one giant leap for democracy. Today’s Supreme Court ruling reigning in the power of the unelected bureaucracy to essentially regulate every aspect of the American economy under the guise of ‘climate change’ — has been mercifully laid to rest. CO2 is not a pollutant, humans inhale oxygen and exhale CO2. Humans are not ‘pollution. I have been stating the obvious since 2007.” See Flashback 2007: Inhofe Spokesman Morano: ‘CO2 is not an air pollutant and should not be treated as one’
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By: Marc Morano – Climate DepotJune 30, 2022 11:51 AM
AP: Supreme Court limits EPA in curbing power plant emissions
SCOTUS Reins in the Power of the EPA
‘EPA loses – America Wins’: Supreme Court rules against overreach by EPA– Statement on the ruling by CO2 Coalition Chair William Happer: “The decision is a very welcome reaffirmation of the Constitutional rights of citizens of the United States. Untouched is the question of whether the Constitution allows Congress to make scientifically incorrect decisions by majority vote, for example: that carbon dioxide, a beneficial gas that is essential to life on Earth, is a pollutant.”
It’s Official: Supreme Court reins in EPA on Clean Power Plan!
ABC White House correspondent Mary Alice Parks tweeted fearfully, “Who is going to save the planet?”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: “Our planet is on fire, and this extremist Supreme Court has destroyed the federal government’s ability to fight back. This radical Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis, and we can’t let them have the last word.”
CBS Newsman Dan Rather: “Dear Supreme Court, Thanks for nothing. – Planet Earth”
Carlin’s report concluded, ‘We believe our concerns and reservations are sufficiently important to warrant a serious review of the science by the EPA’
‘What will happen as a result is quite predictable: Greatly increased rates for electric power, decreased availability of the electric power so vital to our way of life, decreased reliability of the electric grid, a lower standard of living, decreased competitiveness of US products in world markets since most countries do not have such regulations, and Communist-style central control of the electric generating industry by a Washington-based bureaucracy with no understanding of the industry.’
Dr. Carlin: ‘In the last few years the literature has blossomed with more and more serious damning studies from a climate alarmist viewpoint. Two weeks ago I outlined the nature of the costs being incurred to meet the desires of climate alarmists to reduce human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide.
It is becoming increasingly evident that increases in emissions of CO2 have had no significant effect on temperatures, and that assumptions made by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in related issues fail tests based on the scientific method and sophisticated econometric tests.’
EPA’s Alan Carlin’s new book: ‘Environmentalism Gone Mad’. A must read
Watch: Climatologist explains why EPA Endangerment Finding on CO2 should be vacated
The Scientific Case for Vacating the EPA’s Carbon Dioxide Endangerment Finding
CEI Report: EPA Using Flawed Models as Basis for Regulating Carbon Dioxide – EPA should withdraw from 2009 Endangerment FindingMorano: “Who can blame a judge? for blocking oil and gas drilling due to ‘climate’ – ‘Trump admin. has not challenged CO2 endangerment finding’ – Bush admin ‘rubber-stamped UN’ reports
“This is inevitable – and what I mean by that is the George W. Bush administration did not push back or try to change anything,” argues Marc Morano of Climate Depot. “They rubber-stamped United Nations reports and they never challenged the underpinning of this science that claims that our oil and gas are creating a climate catastrophe.” Morano, Marc (Climate Depot)Morano says Barack Obama came into office and made it worse – and he contends the current administration needs to shoulder some blame as well.
“The Trump administration has not challenged the endangerment finding that the Obama administration implemented that says carbon dioxide is a danger to our atmosphere,” says Morano, “[and] the Trump administration has not yet appointed a presidential commission to reexamine the science.”
Because of that, Morano asks: “Who can blame a judge?” “It’s amazing more judges haven’t come to this ruling,” he continues. “The time has come to officially start challenging the scientific claims of the United Nations and pushing back on this nonsense – and until that happens, I’m not even confident that, if this goes to the Supreme Court, it will go our way at this point.”
Ross McKitrick: Revisiting the EPA Endangerment Finding
60 scientists call for EPA endangerment finding to be reversed
Scientists’ Call for EPA to Immediately Reopen its GHG Endangerment Finding
This Letter from over 60 highly credentialed scientists states that: “We the undersigned are individuals who have technical skills and knowledge relevant to climate science and the GHG Endangerment Finding. We each are convinced that the 2009 GHG Endangerment Finding is fundamentally flawed and that an honest, unbiased reconsideration is in order.”
Steve Milloy: EPA regs based on ‘illegal and scientifically bankrupt endangerment finding’– Statement from Steve Milloy’s JunkScience.com:
“The Clean Power Plan was based on the Obama EPA’s illegal and scientifically bankrupt endangerment finding.
The Obama EPA made up its mind to condemn CO2 before the endangerment rulemaking began, ignored the ongoing global warming pause and then finalized the finding despite the shocking Climategate emails confirming the scientific corruption of the climate alarmists.
Particularly galling was the Obama-invented “social cost of carbon.” In reality, there is no social cost of carbon because without fossil fuels, society stops.
Ironically, the Obama Clean Power Plan was not justified on the basis of reduced CO2 emissions but on the “co-benefit” of lives saved by reduced particulate matter emissions. The notion that coal plant particulate emissions kill people has now been totally debunked. So the Obama Clean Power Plan has absolutely no legs to stand on.
Kudos to Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt for keeping this vital campaign promise.”
The EPA CO2 endangerment finding endangers the USA
Dennis Avery: U.S. Supreme Court Should Reverse Climate “Endangerment Finding”
Why Revoking the EPA GHG Endangerment Finding Is the Most Urgent Climate Action Needed
Declaration of George T. Wolff, Ph.D. on EPA’s Proposed Endangerment
New Research Report Confirms Invalidation of the EPA’s Endangerment Finding
The Urgency of Revoking the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding– ‘Only if and when Endangerment Finding (EF) revocation occurs can the profound risks posed by climate alarmism be said to have passed in the US.’ – ‘Even if all of the climate-related EPA regulations promulgated by Obama are revoked or otherwise changed, more such regulations can be promulgated in the future as long as the GHG Endangerment Finding remains in effect.’
Renowned Climatologist: ‘You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide’
‘Scientists note that geologically speaking, the Earth is currently in a ‘CO2 famine‘ and that the geologic record reveals that ice ages have occurred when CO2 was at 2000 ppm to as high as 8000 ppm. In addition, peer-reviewed studies have documented that there have been temperatures similar to the present day on Earth when carbon dioxide was up to twenty times higher than today’s levels’
Order Green Fraud here:
Chapter 3 Excerpt: This chapter will take the reader through the facts on the claims about climate, energy, and the environment from the media, UN, and Green New Deal advocates. Princeton professor emeritus of physics Will Happer explained why climate activists are wrong. “Aside from the human brain, the climate is the most complex thing on the planet. The number of factors that influence climate—the sun, the earth’s orbital properties, oceans, clouds, and, yes, industrial man—is huge and enormously variable,” Happer said.
The global warming coalition can accurately be called climate change cause deniers. They deny the hundreds of causes and variables that influence climate change and instead try to pretend that carbon dioxide is the climate control knob overriding all the other factors and that every bad weather event is somehow “proof” of “global warming” and an impending climate “emergency.”
I haven’t seen Democrats this mad since Lincoln freed their slaves.
I wish I could find this chart which shows on the video above … I’ll send it to all my friends who don’t seem to realize what’s happening:
120 month average retail price chart … which shows gasoline prices since 2013 !!!
Please help WUWT or Morano ! – Just that chart alone.
It shows that it’s Biden’s fault – not Putin’s. !!! … Starting on November 4th 2020, just days after the election.
Here’s one for Gas
https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_gas_price
Or this one from Gas Buddy
https://www.gasbuddy.com
Scroll down and select the 2 year data to see the beginning of Bidenflation
Here is a deep dive into what’s causing the higher gas prices. And no, it’s not supply and demand… it’s the government regulation. EPA increasing fees then costs and regulation to the point that oil companies can’t stay in business. They must pass the cost on the consumer. And you haven’t seen nothing yet, new increases coming in 2023 to force the price even higher unless this supreme court ruling changes all that.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bY46elZFKmc
Thanks Bryan
This one?
Yes that one – thanks Redge!
HEAR YE, HEAR YE Democrats, you ARE the majority
rightleftcorrect? I mean more than 50% of the population buys into your pontifications correct? You have the power to end oil without legislation by simply not using anything produced by it.Simply…
Have your functioning gas stoves removed and replaced with electric.
Have your functioning gas heaters removed and replaced with electric.
Have your functioning gas water heaters removed and replaced with electric.
Trade in your Gas or Diesel powered cars for new Electric Vehicles.
Have 160 KW of EV quick charge battery storage mounted inside your garage.
Have sufficient Powerwall battery back-up to supply your home needs during a blackout
Have sufficient Solar Panels mounted on your rooftop to recharge all those batteries.
Though you’ll probably be walking everywhere anyway since automotive and bicycle Rubber Tires require oil for their creation. As do Asphalt Roads, plastic wire insulation, lightweight plastic components, all needed for even EV efficiency and Wind Turbine weight reduction and associated efficiencies. And Coal for silica-to-silicon purification for Solar PV cell production.
And any of the other more than 6000 products dependent on Petrochemicals
Democrats, if you only stopped being hypocritical and ceased pandering to the Oil Industry your Utopia would be realized…without legislation.
You must have read the NY state “green power plan”. As of now, no gas is to be used in any new construction and, in the future: if your gas furnace, stove, or water heater fails it must be replaced with electric. No small gasoline powered tools will be allowed as of 2025. On and on and one. One stupid regulation after another, ad infinitum. Our guvernor woke-ul is as stupid as the day is long and, mistakenly, thinks that she rules our lives. Well, maybe not mistakenly – it seems that the voterds here are not self-sufficient and require direction if not domination.
I’m in Wackyfornia and Gruesome Newsome wants to do similar by banning Gas and Diesel powered vehicle sales by 2035
Don’t you understand that the atmosphere directly above New York State is a closed system and thus the sacrifices and extra costs incurred by Empire State residents will be for their benefit alone and will not be impacted by what China, India and the rest of the planet does.
If that were not the case, then these restrictions would be purely political and virtue signaling.
How many gallons (liters) of lube oil are there in a 1 Megawatt wind turbine generator?
How much diesel fuel will it consume on average due to wind outage?
How much rare earth metals were wasted on a device that can’t glean enough spare energy from the environment to even reproduce itself?
These are questions the greens don’t appreciate.
Continuing my rant:
How many balsa trees are used in making the blades for it?
How many hours of Chinese politically incorrect serf and child labor are involved in mining for Neodymium production?
How much of what radioactive wastes were produced by the manufacturing of the Neodymium magnets used in that turbine and how “hot” are they?
Real journalism is hard to find these days.
Does this help?
Climate change: Electrical industry’s ‘dirty secret’ boosts warming
Omg how true.
Now if we could only get back to the Constitution’s notion of enumerated powers. Then most of the administrative bureaucracies can be liquidated because they lack an amendment that supports their activities. Plus, it would be great be to require all regulations to be ratified by Congress (because the bureaucracies represent unconstitutional delegation of legislative power and also because they violate separation of powers).
A little respect for the Constitution would look nice on Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer.
True, yet one would be forced to “beat it into them”. (This might be viewed as a bonus by some.)
Remember, only Congress can declare war, which it hasn’t done in 80 years.
My only hope is that SCOTUS will continue to move the needle case by case.
But since politics (and SCOTUS clearly now is political) that is a very faint hope.
NOW it’s political? NOW? Have you been asleep for the last 50 years?
Democracy-lovers should by happy. But progressives prefer Supreme Court rulings (unless/until a ruling goes the wrong way) and government agency fiats — both of which exist on the peripheries of democracy — over legislation by Congress and Presidents acting within their constitutional bounds.
Hallelujah !
Now let’s get the CO2 endangerment finding thrown in the ash bin.
That is not so easy. CAA gave EPA discretion to circularly define pollutants ‘as that which pollutes’. So EPA accomodated Mass and UNFCCC by doing so after Mass v EPA.
There is a long, difficult, and for sure to be legally challenged theoretical way within the EPA.
The better strategy is to simply amend CAA by legislating that a gas vital for photosynthesis is NOT a pollutant at any level less than, say, that used in greenhouses to make stuff greener. That has a shot after the 2024 election given how poorly Biden is fairing.
Rud, did they not violate their own rules for establishing an Endangerment Finding (and punted to the IPCC)?
I know this was raised in the past but ignored, but even so is that not a chink in their armor more easily justified than arguing “the science”?
GD, as a licensed Harvard trained lawyer, I researched this pretty extensively. My comment stands. Unfortunately ‘punting to the IPCC‘ is within the purview of legal EPA ‘review of best available science’—because proving it isn’t is the long, difficult and legally fraught internal path. No court could say otherwise.
The case of Obama’s Clean Power Plan was that it was done by fiat after a very similar law was rejected by Congress. The greens either do not have the votes or do not want their names on vastly increasing the cost of energy.
There are lots of happy reports on the Supreme Court’s ruling throwing out EPA’s so-called Clean Power Plan. Some go so far as to suggest that EPA is barred from regulating power plant CO2 emissions.
It is not quite that simple and the result is rather amusing. EPA is still required to regulate CO2 under the terms of the Clean Air Act, but that Act provides no way to do that regulation. The Clean Power Plan attempted to expand an obscure minor clause in the Act to do the job but SCOTUS correctly ruled that the clause does not confer that kind of massive authority.
EPA is between a rock and a hard place. It should tell Congress that it cannot do the job and needs a new law, along the lines of the SO2 law added to the Act in 1990, curbing emissions. But such a law has zero chance of passing in the foreseeable future.
EPA is stuck. What they will now do is anybody’s guess. Enjoy their dilemma!
We will. And enjoy watching AOC (new nail manicure protest) and Biden squirm.
Leftists always push too far. Normal people are now catching on to that fact. Anybody that says men can become women and vice versa with a straight face is a Leftist. Try as they might, Brandon and his handlers cannot overcome the clear Title IX focus on the female sex. It will be fun to see the hoops they go through to, using Executive Branch regulations, amend Title IX. Additionally, try as they might, they cannot deny their showcase Admiral suffers from male-pattern baldness.
The EPA is not required to regulate CO2 under current law. The Supremes gave them that authorization, and they can take it away. .
The Supremes cannot write law. They were, however, a fairly decent female vocal group.
Dave, fairly decent? They were goddesses of the 60’s. 😎
I didn’t notice: In the 60s I was either partying or fighting in Vietnam. Music was just a way to get females on the dance floor to rub against. They liked that very much and it led to more interesting things.
No following you, MAKirk. The fact that the Supreme Court can rescind a law doesn’t not affect the law before that happens. EPA’s endangerment finding triggers a requirement to regulate under the CAA.
Eventually the truth will win. A scam that smells like a scam is still a scam no matter how many people believe it. That being said, Trump definitely came to the rescue and this decision maybe wouldn’t have been made without his SCOTUS appointment.
Old Abe said it all: “… but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” His second term election pretty much proved that one.
Hey, down-voters, come out of the woodwork and tell me why that is not true.
There will be much discussion in the meeting of The Flat Climate Society tomorrow…
You mean the chapter Barry leads?
Hey, down-voter, tell me how Barry is not a charter member of the Flat Climate Society.
From these, it’s obvious, Fink & possibly others are conforming people to their vision of a perfect
world via regulation, high prices & shortages. We’re expendable- achieving the Liberal World Order is all that matters!
Brian Deese- from Blackrock, now Brandon’s National Economic Council (NEC) chief, on Twitter:
CNN: “What do you say to those families that say, ‘listen, we can’t afford
to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years?’”
BRIAN DEESE: “This is about the future of the Liberal World
Order and we have to stand firm.”
(emphasis & underlining mine)
Larry Fink- forcing behaviors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIBlha7LF7s
Larry Fink- markets like totalitarian governments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFVecfbffUE
Red State-
The White House’s Secret Meetings With BlackRock Are a Major Threat to Freedom
By The Heartland Institute 6/28/22
Adewale Adeyemo- former Fink chief-of-staff, now #2 at the Treasury
Concentrating power into fewer hands makes the world less stable & easier for those with really evil
intent to seize control from those who initially get control. Remember, the Ayatollah didn’t go to Iran
until > 1 yr after the protests started & after the Shah had fled.
They should say it is about the “Socialist World Order”.
Of course, they can’t say that or they would give themselves away. So they lie and call themselves “liberals”.
It took the (maybe) great President Donald Trump (it is, however, the great President Ronald Reagan) to find Supreme Court Justices that could read the Constitution and interpret its provisions in accordance with established Constitutional review analysis criteria and standards. The dissenters basically stamped their feet and cried that they wanted the EPA to regulate that bad old CO2 molecule because … climate. FJB and F_Leftists.
Amendment XXVIII
On the right track. Suggest that we generalize and condense the language:
<i>Anything that has the force of law must be reviewed and voted on by Congress.</i>
Up vote from me, but that wouldn’t stop Gongress* from outlawing CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.
* I’m leaving that typo in (-:
Time to hit the trenches, politically.
And put forward the best evidence currently available.
The other side won’t debate.
Well armed (knowledge is power) citizens can take this country back.
From the article: “Sen. Elizabeth Warren: “Our planet is on fire”
That’s just ridiculous, factless, scaremongering, Elizabeth.
Why should we believe anything a liar like you says? You have no credibility with rational people.
I love how leftists always claim they own everything. “Our planet” What hubris.
The radical Left always pretends to speak for everyone, too, even though they only represent about 25 percent, or less, of the population.
Joe Biden’s current approval rating at 31 percent shows just how little real public support he has. That’s about the size of the radical Left Base.
They don’t speak for everyone. Not even close.
The US Constitution does not care about science, does not care about policy, and does not care about ideology.
The Constitution is 100% about how government functions and the rights and powers of the three branches of the Federal government, the States, and the people.
The ruling was quite simple, as stated by the Chief Justice:
Only Congress can set policy by enacting laws. The Executive cannot make policy, but only faithfully execute and administer the laws. SCOTUS ruled that EPA unconstitutionally usurped Congress’s powers.
If the warmunists want to make warmunism the policy of the United States, then they will need to convince Congress to enact laws to do so, and convince a President to sign the laws Congress enacts. If they can’t do that, then they are SOL.
There you go.
That’s why Leftists rely on the corrupt Deep State: They can’t get their agenda through Congress.
“CO2 is not a pollutant, humans inhale oxygen and exhale CO2. Humans are not ‘pollution.”
Breathing – Wikipedia (under composition.) “Inhaled air is by volume 78% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen and small amounts of other gases including argon, carbon dioxide, neon, helium, and hydrogen.[16]
The gas exhaled is 4% to 5% by volume of carbon dioxide, about a 100 fold increase over the inhaled amount. The volume of oxygen is reduced by a small amount, 4% to 5%, compared to the oxygen inhaled. The typical composition is:[17]
Imagine what a government agency that can regulate CO2 could do with this saying “…humans exhale about a 100 fold increase over the amount inhaled amount.” The human population in 1900 was around fewer than 2 billion people and today are 7.7 billion (close to a 5.5 billion increase) people that breathing exhale some 100 fold more CO2 than they inhaled. In a world that less people die than are born and live, the human population growth contributes a high amount of the CO2 increases as part of the Natural Carbon Cycle.
Could someone have written a coherent article on this instead of a hodgepodge of links and quotes?
Life is not linear, Jeff. Go ahead and try to organize it if you like.
In a technical sense, the EPA never had their own authority to regulate CO2. Lest anyone forget, Steve McIntyre was exposing the fatal fault in the U.S. EPA’s efforts to make pronouncements about CAGW, via his detailed criticisms about how the core IPCC people refused to share their temperature/weather-gathering data. In his June 2009 blog post, McIntyre said (3rd paragraph https://climateaudit.org/2009/06/23/climate-audit-submission-to-epa/ ):
— “EPA guidelines require that highly influential scientific assessments meet a variety of sensible standards for transparency, data availability and due diligence – policies that CA [ClimateAudit] readers know not to have been implemented by the IPCC.”
Quite likely that if there was anybody in EPA at that time to call out this massive problem, they might have feared losing their job or feared being reassigned to work in some forgotten corner of the agency.
While this is a great outcome we should remember our enemies are determined to destroy civilisation. They do not play by the rules established by the people. To them the people do not count. They will simply ignore all rules that impede their objective. The unelected ruling cabal will simply move on. The next item on their list of social destruction will be farmers and meat production.
We still have an ongoing enemy of humanity out there. The response to this ruling by the Warren’s, AOC’s Kerry’s Schwab’s Gore’s the entire Hockey Stick team, plus the current administration’s puppeteers, who are still pulling the strings, tell us, we have to keep up the resistance. These modern day Luddites do not stop.
In case the developing situation in Europe isn’t fully known, this link may help.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/dutch-farmers-protest-climate-mandates-that-would-cut-livestock-by-30-percent_4570267.html?utm_source=goodeveningnoe&utm_campaign=gv-2022-07-02&utm_medium=email&est=zFXI%2BpD2jCEyefTjKiA2EZZv1RMqfPWexgpsybDSWJUMeK7R%2FbN6L0rncWQAo8rf4i4%3D
Even some in Europe are getting militant now. And I mean really militant.
I’m not sure that crap is going to fly.
Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) / Twitter
The Supremes basically said:
Stop! In the name of law
Before you break the Constitution
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/07/china-slams-u-s-supreme-courts-epa-ruling-tells-biden-admin-to-stick-to-climate-obligations/
Its like climate Junkies want to outlaw Oxygen, to prevent Co2. You can’t have one, you can’t have one, you can’t have one without the… Other….