Climate change

On 6/30/2022 at 10:36 AM, emtb2rn said:

Well, sotus is continuing its partisan rulings. I guess the 6 gop justice’s plan is to die before the full impact of climate change is felt. Good plan, mine as well. But it doesn’t do much for future generations. 

“The US supreme court has sided with Republican-led states to in effect hobble the federal government’s ability to tackle the climate crisis, in a ruling that will have profound implications for the government’s overall regulatory power.

In a move that will seriously hinder America’s ability to stave off disastrous global heating, the supreme court, which became dominated by rightwing justices under the Trump administration, has opted to support a case brought by West Virginia that demands the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) be limited in how it regulates planet-heating gases from the energy sector.

The case, which was backed by a host of other Republican-led states including Texas and Kentucky, was highly unusual in that it was based upon the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era strategy to cut emissions from coal-fired power plants that never came into effect. The Biden administration sought to have the case dismissed as baseless given the plan was dropped and has not been resurrected.

Not only was this case about a regulation that does not exist, that never took effect, and which would have imposed obligations on the energy sector that it would have met regardless. It also involves two legal doctrines that are not mentioned in the constitution, and that most scholars agree have no basis in any federal statute.

However, the supreme court has sided with West Virginia, a major coal mining state, which argued that “unelected bureaucrats” at the EPA should not be allowed to reshape its economy by limiting pollution – even though emissions from coal are helping cause worsening flooding, heatwaves and droughts around the world, as well as killing millions of people through toxic air.

It is the most important climate change case to come before the supreme court in more than a decade.“

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/30/us-supreme-court-ruling-restricts-federal-power-greenhouse-gas-emissions

Well what do you expect from people who wait for messages from God to tell them what to do instead of honoring the brains their God gave them by actually USING them?  None of them have to live in West Virginia, one of the 10 unhealthiest states in the country.

55 minutes ago, subee said:

Well what do you expect from people who wait for messages from God to tell them what to do instead of honoring the brains their God gave them by actually USING them?  None of them have to live in West Virginia, one of the 10 unhealthiest states in the country.

Yup, none of them are having to deal with power outages during heat waves, choking forest fire smoke, or live next to superfund sites.