EPA Broke Law To Push CO2 Regulations


The EPA has a long history of simply declaring rules and regulations out of thin air. Here is a another example. The Environment & Energy Legal Institute called them out on it:

“These emails, which EPA forced us to litigate to obtain, prove beyond any doubt that EPA conducted its campaign to impose the global warming agenda unlawfully, making the rules themselves unlawful,” Chris Horner, an E&E Legal senior attorney, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Horner says the EPA’s rules are unlawful because they were made in collusion with environmental groups, effectively shutting out the public from the process and violating federal law. E&E Legal says the Clean Power Plan and other agency rules were written with an “unalterably closed mind” because it revolved around pushing an anti-fossil fuel agenda.

E&E Legal’s latest report builds off one the group released last year which produced emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request showing coordination between environmentalists and EPA officials. This included emails between environmentalists and EPA employees discussing the Keystone XL pipeline and the technological feasibility of clean coal technology.

Now E&E Legal says FOIA records show “the influence on EPA by pressure groups, the same groups from which EPA obtained numerous senior officials.” These activists were instrumental in crafting the EPA’s “Clean Power Plan” — which regulates carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. Read the Daily Caller Piece here.

The EPA is expected to finalize the Clean Power Plan as early as Monday, and the White House claims this “stronger” than the previous proposed rule. Rebellion is in the works as states have now sued to get the rule struck down. Republicans are urging governors not to enforce it, using the same tactics Obama is famous for.

 

Photo: CFact.org



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