Wednesday, February 10, 2016
SCOTUS Rules In Favor Of Dirty Air
And in a surprise move of blatant judicial activism, the conservative members of the court granted a stay of EPA rules before any appeals court had an opportunity to review the rules in question.
The U.S. Supreme Court has put President Barack Obama’s emissions-reduction plan on hold, in a victory for Kentucky and more than two dozen states that had sued to stop it.US air is not as foul as recent times in China so why should we worry when cleaning up the air will endanger profits. And Kentucky will continue to lose its coal mines because, well that's just bidness.
Thanks to a five-justice majority on the high court Tuesday, those states do not have to comply, at least for now, with the Clean Power Plan until a lower court has resolved the legal case against it.
Under the plan, states would have to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by a third by 2030. But states that rely heavily on coal to produce electricity, including Kentucky and West Virginia, had argued that the plan was unconstitutional.
Kentucky is the nation’s third-leading coal producer behind Wyoming and West Virginia, and much like those states gets the vast majority of its electricity from coal.
In a statement, Bill Bissett, president of the Kentucky Coal Association, called the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan “great news.” Bissett’s group represents companies that mine 90 percent of the state’s coal.
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