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HIGHEST COURT GIVES OPPRESSIVE EPA THUMBS DOWN ON JACKBOOT TACTICS

 

By NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri
Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
July 3, 2015
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In order not to deviate from the current news media narrative of President Barack Obama's string of successes with the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings last week on the issues of Obamacare and same-sex marriage, the so-called purveyors of truthful information all but ignored a Supreme Court decision on Monday that the Obama administration had hoped would go their way. But the highest court in the land ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations for power plants that resulted from yet another unilateral Obama jackboot order.

The Supreme Court Justices ruled 5-4 against the EPA which is a definite letdown for President Obama in his attempts at furthering his environmental agenda without having to go to the legislative branch which is controlled by the Republicans.

The Obama administration has increasingly showed a tendency to force its will on the public especially when it comes to environmental issues or climate change allegations: Included are EPA "enforcement agents." For example, recently gold miners in the Alaskan wilderness Alaska were shocked when a group of heavily armed men claiming to be from the federal government arrived to address violations of the Clean Water Act . At least eight men dressed in body armor who were led by the Environmental Protection Agency were there to check 30 or so small mining claims for violations.

The Supreme Court's majority decision was written by Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, who was noticeably angry over the previous decisions that he believed had no basis in constitutional law but caved in to political pressure from the left. In his decision, Justice Scalia wrote that the EPA must consider the costs of complying with the rules regarding air pollution and they were sent back to the EPA.

The EPA had begun regulating what they believed was hazardous air pollutants and mercury from coal- and oil-fired power plants in April. But the enormous utility industry argued that the rules saddled them with the additional cost of billions of dollars just to comply with what was basically an end run around Congress. Industry representatives argued that Obama's power-grabbing EPA knowingly ignored the enormous costs for the utility companies to comply with the regulations.

Four other Justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts, concurred with Scalia who wrote: "[The] EPA must consider cost — including cost of compliance — before deciding whether regulation is appropriate and necessary. It will be up to the agency to decide (as always, within the limits of reasonable interpretation) how to account for cost."

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The White House appeared to be oblivious to the ruling despite the fact that the SCOTUS ruling will likely have an impact on numerous EPA regulations that are part of Obama's unilateral climate change agenda. The EPA will now have to examine the cost of compliance for the Clean Power Plan, which is at the heart of the president's environmental agenda.

The EPA had argued that the rules are both appropriate and necessary regardless of the costs, and that it has the discretion under the law to act as it deems fit in regulating hazardous pollutants. "In other words, they argued they had the power to dictate regulations and create laws to regulate industries as they see fit, without any oversight or act of Congress," said political strategist and attorney Mike Baker.

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The Supreme Court Justices ruled 5-4 against the EPA which is a definite letdown for President Obama in his attempts at furthering his environmental agenda without having to go to the legislative branch which is controlled by the Republicans.