A federal appeals court has upheld Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) greenhouse gas regulations, a victory for the Obama administration that’s also sure to inflame election-year political battles over the White House green agenda.
Environmentalists heralded the three-judge panel’s unanimous 82-page ruling that leaves intact EPA’s first-time regulations and authority to craft future rules to help combat global warming.
... The decision is a defeat for a suite of industry groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Mining Association, the National Association of Manufacturers and others that challenged various aspects of EPA’s climate rules. States including Texas and Virginia also filed legal challenges against the rules.
“Today’s ruling is a setback for businesses facing damaging regulations from the EPA,” said National Association of Manufacturers CEO Jay Timmons in a statement on behalf of a number of groups, such as the American Petroleum Institute, the American Frozen Food Institute, the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers and others.
He said the groups will be “considering all of our legal options when it comes to halting these devastating regulations.”
"The debate to address climate change should take place in the U.S. Congress and should foster economic growth and job creation, not impose additional burdens on businesses,” the groups said....
This ruling just points out the importance of defeating Obama and Democrats who support these bad regulations. They are harming the economy and they will not help the environment. By driving up the cost of autos they will just insure that older cares stay on the roads longer. They also make it impossible to for states to take a flexible approach that cleans up the environment without killing jobs or creating make work jobs for environmental wackos.
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