EPA Climate Change Ruling Would be a Stimulus for Lawyers--And No One Else
Glenn G. Lammi is chief counsel to Washington Legal Foundation's Legal Studies Division.
EPA's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the antiquated Clean Air Act would create, as Representative Dingell put it, "a glorious mess." Add to that the disparate patchwork of court decisions and jury verdicts that would emerge from years of EPA-inspired greenhouse gas litigation, and you have a recipe for stagnating commerce.
There would, however, be a hiring boom in the litigation industry. Are these some of the "green jobs" we've all been hearing about?
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Does eating trail-mix, drinking herbal tea and listening to enviro-guru ALGORE make everyone nuts?
Environmentalism is nothing more than neo-pantheism. - Its intolerant dogmas and creeds are becoming law and its theology is brainwashing students and the general public.
Going green has gone over the edge of Wacko Canyon.
EPA Climate Change Ruling
What is good for the trail bar is generally bad for everyone else. Is this Obama's change you can believe in for the trial bar. Its another example of Obama taking care those who financed his election like the UAW at the expense of everyone else. Lets kill 2 birds with one stone and turn the trial bar into an alturnative energy source.
ENVIRO WACKODOM
Here's just a little sample of "enviro insanity syndrome".
My wife has asthma, and the price of her little "puffer" (the size of my thumb) has just gone up 45%. Why? Because the nut-jobs at the EPA listed the propellant in the tiny canister as a "green house gas" and the pharmaceutical companies had to find an "eco-friendly" gas. I reckon all the asthma inhalers in the country probably spew out as much "gas" as one school bus does in a day. That little bit of regulatory insanity has cost our household about $35.00 a month. Multiply that by a couple of million asthma sufferers and imagine the financial waste.
Now, figure out the enviro regulatory costs on everything you buy and do - Staggering!
Remember, these hundreds of billions of wasted dollars also mean lost jobs.
Rabid environmentalism is also closing off outdoor recreation and access to millions of Americans. "KEEP OUT" signs, locked gates, lost recreational venues, and closed roads will the "outdoor legacy" passed on to our children.
And, if Obama gets his cap and trade passed the resulting financial disaster and lost jobs will further devastate our country.
Environmentalism has morphed into America's official State Religion. Its intolerant creeds and dogmas control or influence our schools, courts, media, government bureaucracy and politicians.
Say "No" to neo-pantheism. Going green has gone too far.
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