Pirate's Cove

I’m not sure how I feel about this: if it is not a power expressly delegated to the federal government than it is reserved for the States and the People, and, if they want to do stupid cult stuff, that’s on them. But, is this something that would be part of the duties of Los Federales? Let’s take a look

Justice Department sues Hawaii, Michigan, Vermont and New York over state climate actions

The U.S. Justice Department filed lawsuits against four states this week, claiming their climate actions conflict with federal authority and President Donald Trump’s energy dominance agenda.

The DOJ on Wednesday filed lawsuits against Hawaii and Michigan over their plans for legal action against fossil fuel companies for harms caused by climate change. On Thursday, the DOJ sued New York and Vermont, challenging their climate superfund laws that would force fossil fuel companies to pay into state-based funds based on previous greenhouse gas emissions.

“These burdensome and ideologically motivated laws and lawsuits threaten American energy independence and our country’s economic and national security,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement, noting the office hopes to stop “these illegitimate impediments to the production of affordable, reliable energy that Americans deserve.”

The DOJ lawsuits, which legal experts called unprecedented, mark the latest of the Trump administration’s attacks on environmental work and raises concern over states’ abilities to retain the power to take climate action without federal opposition.

The DOJ’s four filings said the state efforts undermine the federal government while “increasing energy costs and disrupting the national energy market.” It said the states’ plans and policies are unconstitutional, violate the federal foreign affairs power and are preempted by the Clean Air Act — a federal law authorizing the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate air emissions.

Now, since fossil fuels mostly come into those states from other states/nations, that would be part of Article I section 8 “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.” If those states want to do deal with companies that take fossil fuels from the ground in the state and sell it in the state without the product ever leavign the state, than, sure, lawsuits. If they want to deal with product come from outside the state? The power of Los Federales.

The DOJ argued the act “creates a program for regulating air pollution in the United States and ‘displaces’ the ability of States to regulate greenhouse gas emissions beyond their borders.”

OK, that gives me a hearty laugh, because the Trump DOJ just used the Democrats own words against them, in that the climate cult Dems have stated that the law gives sole power to the federal government.

“This lawsuit is at best frivolous and arguably sanctionable,” Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement Thursday. Nessel noted that Michigan hasn’t yet filed its lawsuit, but confirmed her intent to, and said the White House and the oil industry “will not succeed in any attempt to preemptively bar our access to make our claims in the courts.” A spokesperson for Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office deferred to Nessel when asked for comment.

I have a solution: ban the sale of all fossil fuels in your states. That is your power. Which would mean that all you Elites, like Nessel, Whitmer, and the others from the affected states, would have to stop taking all those fossil fueled flight and SUV trips. Whitmer’s husband wouldn’t be able to use his fossil fueled boat. Real shame, eh?