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A couple of days ago the U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. agreed with 14 AG's and struck down another U.S. EPA policy as having insufficient basis in law. This ulta vires effort by the Administration's anti-enviromnental administrators at the EPA illegally exempted power plants from the law. The Court decision barred the EPA from implementing its so-called "Clean Air Mercury Rule" that enabled dirty coal and oil-fired plants to trade the right to emit certain amounts of mercury. I am sure that the free market types at the EPA actually believe that their idea is a good one, so before they return to private industry at the end of the year, they decided to just make their idea the rule even though it lacked basis in law. There are now so many of these cases - same plaintiffs, same EPA, same Courts, same results - that I almost didn't bother to blog the obvious. But when it becomes routine for a government agency to ignore the law, it seems that we all ought to stand up and just say "enough" in hopes that someone will notice.
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Tuesday, February 12
by
James
on Tue 12 Feb 2008 10:52 AM PST
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