The EPA has been claiming high ozone levels in Colorado are due to Utah coal plants (who don’t have scrubbers on them).
Utah’s legislature agreed something needed to be done and set aside $2 million — for legal fees to sue the EPA and avoid the extra cleanup.
https://coloradosun.com/2023/03/08/colorado-air-pollution-utah-ozone-epa/
In a matter of hours scotus has has legalized bribery, promoted pollution, and fucked everyone. All because of Republican appointed judges. Next time anyone tells you both sides are the same, do tell them to go fuck themselves.
Colorado needs to tax the shit out of everything coming from and going to Utah, everyone should. Fuck it, tax the Mormon churches to make up for their theologically driven state of pollution.
All churches should be taxed. There is no valid reason for an exception.
Coney Barrett has actually had a couple moments this years where she has popped out of the conservative dogma bubble. I wonder if the other women on the court can pull her out of the echo chamber.
Yes, Congress explicitly empowered you to do this, and yes you may be protecting citizens rights to not have corporations cover them with harmful, painful pollution… but it might eat into the profits of some of our bribery-patrons, so we’ve decided that we are going to supersede Congress’s authority on this. We’ll figure out our weasely reasoning later.
- SCOTUS, a Constitutionally illegitimate terrorist organization
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The rule is intended to restrict smokestack emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that burden downwind areas with smog-causing pollution.
The Supreme Court, with a 6-3 conservative majority, has increasingly reined in the powers of federal agencies, including the EPA, in recent years.
The court is currently weighing whether to overturn its 40-year-old Chevron decision, which has been the basis for upholding a wide range of regulations on public health, workplace safety and consumer protections.
Three energy-producing states — Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia — have challenged the air pollution rule, along with the steel industry and other groups, calling it costly and ineffective.
Those states are Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.
Ground-level ozone, which forms when industrial pollutants chemically react in the presence of sunlight, can cause respiratory problems, including asthma and chronic bronchitis.
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