A Lawsuit The Right Can Get Behind
May 6th, 2011at 08:01am Posted by Eli
This sounds right up the conservative alley:
Advocates of stringent curbs on greenhouse gas emissions sued the federal government on Wednesday, arguing that key agencies had failed in their duty to protect the earth’s atmosphere as a public trust to be guarded for future generations.
Most of the individual plaintiffs in the suit, filed in United States District Court in San Francisco, are teenagers, a decision apparently made to underscore the intergenerational nature of the public trust that the earth’s atmosphere represents….
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But in some ways the suit parallels a current case, brought by several states against the five largest utilities in the country, that frames greenhouse gas emissions as a public nuisance, legal experts noted.
After all, they’re always looking out for the interests of the unborn, protecting them from abortions, and from inheriting a crushing debt burden. Although, to be fair, they didn’t care about that last one until about five seconds after a Democrat became President.
Also, state’s rights!
Entry Filed under: Choice,Economy,Environment,Republicans
