They raise energy prices, hurt living standards, and undermine our future as a law-abiding nation.
Paul Driessen
Decision 6-3 of the United States Supreme Court in West Virginia v. EPA Truly a landmark ruling. It categorically rejects the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to use vague, “previously underused” language in the Clean Air Act to shut down America’s remaining coal-fired power plants. and force the country to switch to fake renewable energy, in the name of the end. “human-caused climate crisis.”
But the decision goes much further. The court made it clear that federal agencies may not impose “Major Federal Actions,” decision “Main question” or make “Extend transform” of their governing body without specific statutory authority expressly provided for by Congress.
In other words, federal agencies do not have the power or authority to take unilateral actions that effectively alter or weaken major components of the energy, economic or agricultural systems, industries, or sectors. industry or standard of living of the United States, unless Congress gives them express authority to do so. .
Such colossal “transitional powers” rest with the American people, acting through the legislators they elect to represent them – not to officials who are not elected and cannot be easily swayed. dismissed or disciplined and held accountable. The intolerable violation of the EPA’s (and so many other federal agencies’) regulations violates our Constitution, the “separation of powers” doctrine, and any reasonable understanding of “legislative intent”.
Many Americans believe that West Virginia suing the EPA represents a major victory over “Deep State.” However, the Court’s ruling will mean little if the Biden Administration refuses to recognize the decision and continues to do its own thing, perhaps reflecting a “progressive” view that Court has become “scam.”
As an example, consider what’s happening with regard to pipeline policy – another hitch the Administration is using to force the US to end its use of fossil fuels.
Richard Glick, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has quit altogether, claiming the ruling does not apply to him. He asserted that several federal district courts – two levels below the Supreme Court – had previously held that EPA maybe coalesce into oblivion. Therefore, he claims, the energy destruction regulations he wants to apply to pipelines can be left in place, or even made more complicated, unless the Supreme Court specifically requests. ask you and FERC about that particular matter.
Under this “novel” interpretation, federal agencies can ignore or defy the Supreme Court about any regulation they wish to make—even those of great national significance. even regulations can leave people unemployed in the dark and possibly die of hypothermia – unless and until the Supremes make a concrete decision against those agencies and rules.
Or maybe even until the Court has assembled its own army or sent an FBI or IRS SWAT team to open up the agency and enforce its decisions.
Chairman Glick wants FERC to reinstate its proposed rule that requires pipeline companies to account for all greenhouse gas emissions from building or operating their pipelines – even if it means This means that many states and cities may find themselves without natural gas to electrify, heat and air-condition homes, operate restaurants, hospitals and schools, power plants, or provide backup power supply in case of emergency.
Major regions of the United States depend on natural gas pipelines to generate electricity or directly fuel furnaces, water heaters, ovens, ranges, and backup generators. They have faced threats of gas shortages and power outages during the winter months and when weather conditions don’t cooperate with government-run wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicle charging stations. authority.
Pipeline companies say they will have to forego many markets if the FERC rule is in place, because it is expensive, impossible to follow and potentially bankrupt them.
When Democrats and Republicans in Congress learned of the proposed rule, they urged FERC to scrap it. The committee ultimately suspended further consideration of the measure, but Mr Glick’s recent comments suggest he may try to unilaterally lift the suspension.
Perhaps his position is at odds with that of the Supreme Court because the White House has told him it doesn’t care about the ruling. President Biden has repeatedly said during the campaign and since taking office that he is less concerned about high energy prices. He promised to end the use of fossil fuels in the United States and intends to do so, regardless of any impact it may have on families, jobs, and global geopolitical realities.
President Biden immediately canceled the Keystone Pipeline, increased regulation, suspended federal licensing processes, designated large areas as “national monuments” to limit exploration and production, and directs all federal agencies to base all decisions on theoretical impacts on Earth’s climate.
Those actions clearly signal that he is willing to sacrifice our hard-won energy independence and strong economy on the altar of radical green ideas.
As food and gasoline prices more than doubled and inflation surged to a 40-year high, his approval rating dropped to a low never before seen by any US president, Mr. Biden had to plead. Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Iran produce more oil. Perhaps he thinks their fossil fuels don’t emit “carbon”.
With a decisive vote by Vice President Kamala Harris, Congress passed the Named Fraud Inflation Reduction Act, which levies $370 billion in taxes on middle-class families to pay for stipends. electric vehicle tax credits, solar panels and wind turbines – and enriching Democratic allies.
Wealthy people will buy expensive electric cars that are charged with expensive, intermittent, weather-dependent wind and solar energy. The middle class will see their jobs and living standards fall even further.
Meanwhile, China, India, a hundred other developing countries and a newly refocused Europe are all burning more fossil fuels, to improve and protect people’s living standards and lives. — while also providing “renewable” energy technologies and materials that the United States cannot or will not produce on its own.
The US could phase out coal, oil and natural gas entirely – and it won’t improve Earth’s climate or weather for once, even if greenhouse gas emissions actually drive gas change later, including the Ice Age, the Roman and Medieval Warm Ages, the Little Ice Age, the Mayan Drought, and the Dust Bowl.
The actions of the White House and FERC are even more interesting, incoherent, incompetent and inexcusable to base all federal decisions on computer impacts on gas. global climate of the Earth and deliberately ignoring the widespread harms of the Biden Administration’s fossil fuel eradication policies.
Such policies pay little or no attention to slave and child labor, destruction of wildlife habitat, toxic air and water pollution, or even carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions. different from vast Abroad The mining, materials processing and manufacturing operations needed to create the myriad of wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles and backup batteries needed to replace the fossil fuels Biden discovered.
Furthermore, the fact that Mr. Glick’s boss has an anti-fossil fuel agenda does not mean that the FERC chair can ignore and defy America’s highest court. He swore an oath to respect our Constitution and the separation of powers enshrined therein. He has no right or authority to promote the whims of political officials, not even a President.
Chairman Glick’s previous comments show that he understands this. If he pushes his pipeline rule now for climate reasons, it will cause trouble – for American families, and for our Constitution, the justice system, the governing state, respect the rule of law and the existence of a united nation.
We can only hope he eventually gathers the courage, common sense and recognition of his oath of office to do what is constitutional, as opposed to what is momentarily convenient, though not. understandable.
Keep this Biden agenda in mind when you go to the polls November 8
Paul Driessen is an attorney, senior policy advisor to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org), and author of books and articles on energy, environmental, legal and human rights issues.
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