The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled to temporarily block President Obama’s attempt to regulate emissions from coal-fired power plants. The ruling is rather unique because the Supreme Court effectively “granted a request to halt a regulation before review by a federal appeals court.” Via the New York Times,
“The challenged regulation, which was issued last summer by the Environmental Protection Agency, requires states to make major cuts to greenhouse gas pollution created by electric power plants, the nation’s largest source of such emissions. The plan could transform the nation’s electricity system, cutting emissions from existing power plants by a third by 2030, from a 2005 baseline, by closing hundreds of heavily polluting coal-fired plants and increasing production of wind and solar power.”
As one can imagine, Jay Inslee is not happy about the ruling. Our green governor released a statement claiming that the ruling “inexplicably breaks with past rulings.” Of course, to any rational person, the ruling really isn’t all that inexplicable.
You see, Mr. Inslee, we run on a system of check-and-balances in the United States. The EPA’s Clean Power Plan is an example of Obama grossly overreaching his powers. So, the Supreme Court moved to hold him accountable.
Dave Lyons says
These checks a balances are more than just three branches of government, and the governor should know his part in it. These checks and balances also include the states, the states being a check upon mandates from the afar District of Colombia. Our national government is a creation of the states as approved by the people. The governor’s job then would be to be a barrier between those national mandates that conflict with the Compacts entered into upon being admitted to the Union of States.
Swed. says
You could end the sentence at “Inslee Confused”
That pretty much covers it.
Lou Caldwell says
who ties this idiots shoes in the morning/