Typical dictatorial over-reach from people who do nothing to practice what they force everyone else to practice
Biden Admin Rolled Out A Massive Highway Emissions Rule On Thanksgiving Eve
The Biden administration unveiled a massive set of highway emissions regulations on Wednesday as Americans were settling in for the holiday weekend.
The finalized rule, announced by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), effectively requires state and local transportation agencies to establish greenhouse gas reduction targets for federally-funded roadway projects. Critics of the rule assert that it is an attempt to use federal highway funding as a cudgel to impose climate policies on state and municipal governments.
“Federal overreach to advance a misguided climate agenda has become a staple of the Biden administration,” Republican West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The final rule, which imposes the performance measure and the requirement to set greenhouse gas targets on state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations (MPO), is just one more example of these harmful regulations.”
And, of course, Los Federales essentially take tons of money from taxpayers and feed it back into the states for a goodly chunk of road projects, from highways and on down.
Similar emissions reduction requirements for federally-funded highway projects were deliberately excluded from the bipartisan infrastructure law as Congress was negotiating on the package, which President Joe Biden signed into law in November 2021, Capito told the DCNF.
“Without the authority to impose this mandate, the FHWA is ignoring the letter of the law to finalize a rule that hampers the ability of state DOTs and MPOs to address the transportation needs of their constituents,” Capito told the DCNF.
They do not care. They’ll probably find some small tiny bit of writing in some law to justify this, which is why Congress should be writing specific, targeted legislation with no leeway, rather than giant laws that are vague.
“It’s not surprising the Biden administration had Mayor Pete drop this regulation just as many Americans were fighting traffic to be with family on Thanksgiving on roads he won’t fix because he’s squandering gas tax money on bike lanes and climate nonsense,” Dan Kish, senior research fellow for the Institute for Energy Research, told the DCNF. “They don’t let the law get in the way of them imposing new edicts on Americans.”
They do not care.
The horror! Giving US states the authority (and resources) to set their own targets.
The horror! “It” REQUIRES…
Of course, Mr Teach and Tucker Carlson’s THE DAILY CALLER do not “believe” that global warming is a threat so they make scheisse up.
Ignoring Mr Teach’s favorite “weasel” word, “essentially”… Los Federales essentially take tons of money from taxpayers and feed it back into the states
Yes, the US collects taxes from rich states (NY, NJ, TX, CA, MA, FL, IL, CT etc) and transfers money to poorer states MS, MO, LA, AL, OK, AR, WV etc. The horror!
Chicken Little:
You are dumber than dirt or just a Leftie socialist. Maybe both. Others can decide.
“The horror! Giving US states the authority (and resources) to set their own target.”
Doing what??? Have you ever read the 10th Amendment???
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The horror..”extreme weather because of climate change impacts the safety and mobility and challenges the stability of the transportation system”. Except for the inconvenient fact the “impacts” aren’t any worse than they used to be, so it’s all based on a false premise. Some things never change…
But, but Brandon’s for the little people, don’t cha know.
But greenhouse emissions, yo.
#PresidentLOL81Million
Bwaha! Lolgf
Highest inflation after 1980 occurred under St Reagan!!
Chicken Little
“Highest inflation after 1980 occurred under St Reagan!!”
And it was triggered by the actions of the third worst president in history. (Biden-Obama-Carter 1-2-3) Regan finally got it under control.
But we should not forget the Democratic House of Representatives who voted down new drilling 5 times in the spring of 2008 thus convincing the world that another shortage was coming and drove oil prices to over $125. Bush tried to stop the oncoming recession by opening up off shore drilling with an first week of July and prcies did fall. But it was too late. The Democats had once again destroyed the economy.
The fat boy tries deflecting and cries when presented with verifiable facts..
Screw Brandon and the broken down nag he rode in on.