Stalin
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The self-delusion machine grinds on trashing conventional economics, civil liberties and the planet in equal measure...
"...Donald Trump’s executive order to accelerate climate change didn’t get nearly the press it should have, upstaged as it was by his more immediately destructive acts. By digging in to trash the economy, ignore court orders, and end habeas corpus as we know it, he has successfully diverted attention from his efforts to make sure big oil CEOs, among his largest donors, never have to face an angry American jury.
His “Protecting American Energy from State Overreach” executive order, issued two weeks ago, is a blind assault on federalism, meant to strip states of their inherent power to regulate pollution and protect natural resources within their borders. Taking aim at state and local-led fossil fuel accountability efforts, Trump’s ferociously anti-science, anti-environment order seeks to destroy what has been called the last remaining hope for addressing climate change while there is still time. It anoints attorney general Pam Bondi as an all-too-willing agent of death: she is ordered to identify, investigate, and challenge any state laws and policies meant to address climate change, including laws that reduce carbon emissions from cars and factories.
Trump is hell-bent on climate destruction. Aside from fast-tracking fossil fuel expansion, gutting EPA protections, and terminating wind energy developments, his order directs Bondi to sue state and local governments to block their climate and clean energy policies and to “take all appropriate action to stop the enforcement” of a wide array of state climate and clean energy laws. His edict proclaims that, “Americans must be permitted to heat their homes, fuel their cars, and have peace of mind—free from policies that make energy more expensive and inevitably degrade quality of life.”
He obviously has no idea that, due to technological advancements, renewable energy has become cheaper and more reliablethan coal-fired electricity.
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The unifying thread of Trump’s wide-ranging executive orders—aside from Trump not understanding the difference between enforcing laws and writing them— is that with each new order, Trump reveals a staggering level of ignorance about the subject he is trying to control. Just as his rejection of due process for immigrants proves his bafflement over how immigration actually works, and his yoyo-ing tariffs show his ignorance of how products are manufactured in the 21st century, his order to destroy state climate efforts reveals that, despite four years of prior experience in his role, he still has no clue how state authority relates to federal authority.
The 10th Amendment retains for the states any sovereign powers not expressly granted to the federal government. State power specifically includes state police powers to protect public health, which in turn requires states to monitor, regulate and curb pollution. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld states’ rights to enact and enforce their own pollution laws for decades. The Clean Air Act of 1970 and the Clean Water Act of 1972 establish a framework where the federal government sets national standards, but states pass their own regulations to either meet or exceed those standards. The Clean Air Act in particular protects the right of states to set stronger-than-federal standards to regulate industrial pollution and carbon emissions.
comrade stalin
moscow
"...Donald Trump’s executive order to accelerate climate change didn’t get nearly the press it should have, upstaged as it was by his more immediately destructive acts. By digging in to trash the economy, ignore court orders, and end habeas corpus as we know it, he has successfully diverted attention from his efforts to make sure big oil CEOs, among his largest donors, never have to face an angry American jury.
His “Protecting American Energy from State Overreach” executive order, issued two weeks ago, is a blind assault on federalism, meant to strip states of their inherent power to regulate pollution and protect natural resources within their borders. Taking aim at state and local-led fossil fuel accountability efforts, Trump’s ferociously anti-science, anti-environment order seeks to destroy what has been called the last remaining hope for addressing climate change while there is still time. It anoints attorney general Pam Bondi as an all-too-willing agent of death: she is ordered to identify, investigate, and challenge any state laws and policies meant to address climate change, including laws that reduce carbon emissions from cars and factories.
Trump is hell-bent on climate destruction. Aside from fast-tracking fossil fuel expansion, gutting EPA protections, and terminating wind energy developments, his order directs Bondi to sue state and local governments to block their climate and clean energy policies and to “take all appropriate action to stop the enforcement” of a wide array of state climate and clean energy laws. His edict proclaims that, “Americans must be permitted to heat their homes, fuel their cars, and have peace of mind—free from policies that make energy more expensive and inevitably degrade quality of life.”
He obviously has no idea that, due to technological advancements, renewable energy has become cheaper and more reliablethan coal-fired electricity.
...
The unifying thread of Trump’s wide-ranging executive orders—aside from Trump not understanding the difference between enforcing laws and writing them— is that with each new order, Trump reveals a staggering level of ignorance about the subject he is trying to control. Just as his rejection of due process for immigrants proves his bafflement over how immigration actually works, and his yoyo-ing tariffs show his ignorance of how products are manufactured in the 21st century, his order to destroy state climate efforts reveals that, despite four years of prior experience in his role, he still has no clue how state authority relates to federal authority.
The 10th Amendment retains for the states any sovereign powers not expressly granted to the federal government. State power specifically includes state police powers to protect public health, which in turn requires states to monitor, regulate and curb pollution. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld states’ rights to enact and enforce their own pollution laws for decades. The Clean Air Act of 1970 and the Clean Water Act of 1972 establish a framework where the federal government sets national standards, but states pass their own regulations to either meet or exceed those standards. The Clean Air Act in particular protects the right of states to set stronger-than-federal standards to regulate industrial pollution and carbon emissions.
comrade stalin
moscow
