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OBAMA SUED BY 24 STATES OVER COAL RULE

'Executive branch power grab' with 'flatly illegal' EPA crackdown

Cheryl Chumley

Twenty-four states have banded together to fight President Obama’s signature climate-change rule that cracks down on power plant emissions, accusing the administration of an “aggressive” play for power.

“EPA’s rule is flatly illegal and one of the most aggressive executive branch power grabs we’ve seen in a long time,” said West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who’s leading up a 24-state lawsuit just filed against the administration, the Hill reported. “The EPA cannot do what it intends to do legally.”

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The suit filed in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeks an overturn of a new rule put in place through Obama that orders states to shift from fossil fuel power to wind and solar.

As Morrisey said, the rule is “the single most onerous and illegal regulation that we’ve seen coming out of D.C. in a long time,” the Hill reported.

He said the suit seeks an immediate stay.

The rule, the Clean Power Plan, demands states oversee 32 percent cuts in power companies’ carbon emissions by 2030, compared to 2005 levels. Each state’s been given a specific emission goal.

States say the EPA is moving beyond its regulatory jurisdiction and powers. The EPA, meanwhile, says that’s not so.

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“The Clean Power Plan has strong scientific and legal foundations, provides states with broad flexibilities to design and implement plans and is clearly within EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act,’ EPA administrator Gina McCarthy said in a statement released Friday. ““We are confident we will again prevail against these challenges and will be able to work with states to successfully implement these first-ever national standards to limit carbon pollution the largest source of carbon emissions in the United States.”

The other states seeking the stay: Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Arizona and North Carolina.

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My comments: This Obama attack on Coal is just one of Obama's attempts to bring America to RUIN.