Oh, poor, poor, climate alarmists, looks like Obama has abandoned you, too
The Obama administration has urged the Supreme Court to toss out an appeals court decision that would allow lawsuits against major emitters for their contributions to global warming, stunning environmentalists who see the case as a powerful prod on climate change.
In the case, AEP v. Connecticut, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a coalition of states, environmental groups and New York City. The decision, handed down last year, said they could proceed with a lawsuit that seeks to force several of the nation’s largest coal-fired utilities to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Please don’t call them environmentalists. They aren’t. But, the little alarmists should look on the bright side, since Obama wants to use the EPA to ram through his AGW agenda, something countries around the world are abandoning after 10 years of suffering under the Kyoto protocol, with nothing but poor economies to show for it
In a brief (pdf) filed yesterday on behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority, acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal agreed with the defendants, saying that U.S. EPA’s newly finalized regulations on greenhouse gases have displaced that type of common-law claim.
Katyal urged the court to vacate the decision and remand the case to the 2nd Circuit for further proceedings, this time taking into account the administration’s push to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
No need to go into the details about CO2 being a natural gas needed for life on Earth, we all know the deal, though the climate creationists think it is freakin’ pollutant.
Matt Pawa, an attorney representing plaintiffs in the case, said he and his colleagues expected the White House to stay out of the matter. During a meeting with more than 30 administration lawyers at the solicitor general’s office on June 24, it seemed they had “a lot of friends in the room,” he said.
“We feel stabbed in the back,” Pawa said. “This was really a dastardly move by an administration that said it was a friend of the environment. With friends like this, who needs enemies?”
Top attorneys at environmental advocacy groups are buzzing about the brief, sources say. Some feel betrayed by a White House that has generally been more amenable to environmental regulation than its predecessor.
“This reads as if it were cut and pasted from the Bush administration’s briefing in Massachusetts,” said David Bookbinder, who served as the Sierra Club’s chief climate counsel until his resignation in May.
What, you expected Obama to help you out? Good luck with that, Obama is in it for Obama. You envirowackos are simply plastic figures in ObamaWorld.
That ruling was against STATES that were trying to do that. I guess whole states are now part of your group of “wacko environmentalists” Would you care to take a guess as to whether there were any “RED” states in the group of wackos ?
…which would have set a precedent that obummer could have used, ‘lil LIAR. So he shot himself in the foot.