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TownHall.com: Obama’s War on Coal Targets Red States
Stephen Moore | Aug 11, 2015
A conspiracy to shut down our American economy has surfaced at an unusual residence within the District of Columbia: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. This well-conceived plot to reduce our once great nation to third-world status surfaced back in 2008. It was in a political speech Barack H. Obama declared, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America”.
Mere months before taking the oath of office, Obama clearly said he intends to bankrupt the coal industry.
Earlier this year, the Obama administration moved forward with stringent EPA regulations that would force the shuttering of coal fired power plants. The Clean Air Act requires EPA regulations to be “appropriate and necessary”. Twenty states sued the EPA and won at the Supreme Court.
Writing for the majority, in the 5-to-4 decision, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote: “It is not rational, never mind ‘appropriate,’ to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits. Statutory context supports this reading.” – NY Times, June 29, 2015
Read the Supreme Court opinion via link below.
MICHIGAN ET AL. v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ET AL.
Despite the aforementioned SCOTUS opinion, the first of this month of August, 2015, Barack Obama’s rogue team announced a new “clean power plan”.
20 states sued. Coal is found in 25 states. Learn why coal is vital to our economic well being: Texas Electrical Energy – A Case for Coal
Please contact your two U.S. Senators and your Representative to tell them to defend us from this dangerous EPA rule and to defund the EPA altogether. Every state in the Union has an environmental agency. It’s time to eliminate another big-government bureaucracy while we still function as a republic.
Texas CD-4 Representative John Ratcliffe
Thank you for standing against tyrannical federal government and standing for your children and grandchildren.
Learn more about Obama’s war on coal from CNN – Obama unveils major climate change proposal, 3 August 2015
John White
Rockwall, Texas
