April seems to be the month in which the Supreme
Court devotes itself to decisions that have no basis in real science and can do
maximum damage to the economy. Invariably, the cases are brought against the
Environmental Protection Agency and are decided in its favor.
In April 2007,
the Court decided that carbon dioxide, the second most essential gas for all
life on the planet was “a pollutant”, the definition the EPA had applied to it
in order to regulate it. Now comes word that the Court had concluded that the
EPA may regulate power-plant emissions that blow across state lines as per a
2011 regulation, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. Not content having put
nearly 150 or more coal-fired power plants out of commission, the Court’s rule
now gives them the authority to do the same thing to about a thousand power
plants in the eastern and western regions of the U.S. that will have to adopt
new pollution controls or reduce operations…….In an article, “The EPA’s Science Problem”, Arnold
Ahlert, noted in early April that “In a stunning admission, Environmental
Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy revealed to House Science, Space
and Technology Committee chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) that the agency neither
possesses, nor can produce, all the scientific data used to justify the rules
and regulations they have imposed on Americans via the Clean Air Act. In short,
science has been trumped by the radical environmental agenda.”………
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