cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/2330924
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at “protecting” American energy from “state overreach.” The move, some energy experts say, is a legally dubious federal overstep designed to undermine the rights of states and local authorities to combat climate change.
The order claims “many States have enacted, or are in the process of enacting, burdensome and ideologically motivated ‘climate change’ or energy policies that threaten American energy dominance and our economic and national security.”
It specifically points to Blue-state policies like Vermont’s Superfund rules, which require fossil fuel companies to pay for damage to the climate, and California’s cap-and-trade program as examples of efforts to “dictate national energy policy.” In Section 2 of the order, Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to identify state laws or policies “burdening” access to “domestic energy resources that “are or may be…unconstitutional, preempted by Federal law, or otherwise unenforceable.”
What might some of those state laws be? According to the executive order, that could include any effort to address “climate change,” support “environmental justice,” or reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions, among others.
That’s not the end of it. The order also directs the attorney general to “expeditiously” take action to “stop the enforcement of State laws and continuation of civil actions” determined to be illegal.
It’s unclear whether this will stand up in court. Michael Gerrard, the faculty director of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, told E&E News that the executive order is “toothless” and that Trump “has no authority on his own to nullify state laws.” Journalist David Roberts, who runs the clean energy newsletter Volts called the order on Bluesky, “wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional” and “dictator shit.”
Others on social media noted the president’s contradiction of traditionally conservative values. As climate reporter and Drilled podcast host Amy Westervelt put it on Bluesky, “States rights! But only when the states agree with us[.]”Climate scientist and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contributing author Zeke Hausfather posted, “So much for federalism…” And Tulane environmental studies professor Joshua Basseches wrote, “Federal overreach has historically been a crusade of the Right, but these times are wild and different.”
This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.
- Climate change isn’t real
- Climate change is real, but man isn’t contributing to it.
- Man is contributing to it, but it’s too late to do anything about it.
- Don’t try to do anything about it or we will fuck you up <- We are here. How the fuck did we get here?
This step did not even exist, I want to get off Mr bones wild ride!!
Capitalism is a death cult
right wing propaganda is incredibly effective against those without the training to recognize propaganda
global warming opens up the arctic ocean which is hugely strategically beneficial to… wait for it… Russia!
More than that is Russia’s economy is fossil fuels
Don’t try to do anything about it or we will fuck you up <- We are here. How the fuck did we get here?
- Come at me bro <- Where we’re going.
Just gonna keep posting this:
“It’s vile.”
They want it that way.“It’s inhumane.”
They want it that way.“It’s dangerous.”
They want it that way.“It’s criminal.”
They want it that way.“It’s illegal.”
They want it that way.The current administration is doing all the evil because…they want it that way.
tell me WHY
🎶 ain’t nothing but a heartache 🎶
Tell me WHY!
Now number 5
🎶
A little bit of hoarding of the bros
A little bit of A/C in their domes
A little bit of treason’s what they need
To kill the rest of us with their greed
A geriatric fascist dunce
Issuing orders all at once
To pay Elon for the stars
So they can die on the way to Mars
🎶
That’s the man who murdered my brother!
Oh yeah, forgot about that.
🎶They really want it that way 🎶
There’s a secret we wanna know
How the hell, how the hell are we supposed to know?
How to live in the twenty-first century
When every move you make everyone can see
So they tell you
Also: they don’t care it’s that way
bUt mUh StAtEs’ RiGhTs
I know they want us to get violent. But it still feels like we should be. Catch22 or whatever, the real move was to not elect him.
I’m a musician. I will set his soul on fire with a slanderous mambo. That’s about all I can realistically do. But by the gods I’ll do it…
The minstrel boy to the war is gone…
Same. I’ll tell my grandkids I fought in the resistance armed with a Telecaster. Twang for the people. Apparently these machines can kill fascists so put me to work.
The party of state’s rights ladies and gentlemen
So when are some of the states going to stand up and say that executive orders have no legal force, and Trump can pound sand?
Or, you know, secede…
california’s cap and trade policy is a conservative policy
It’s the same here in Canada: conservatives originated this kind of policy but if anyone else does it they’re suddenly completely against it. Never trust a conservative, I guess.
So…is he like…trying to end the world? For the lulz?
Cause it seems like he does
He’s a narcissist. A true, clinical narcissist with NPD, not just a selfish fuck with narcissistic tendancies as most Americans have been indoctrinated/propagandized/miseducated/deluded to be so as to be optimal consumers.
As such, he truly believes the world, all of humanity, and the entirety of all existence only ever mattered as a function of bringing him, Donald Trump, into being and facilitating his divine grandeur, and can’t ever matter again once he’s gone.
he has also never shown to have a genuine smile too,w hich is a red flag.
that’s what the christofascists like about him. they’re trying to trigger the end times so they can be raptured. unfortunately they fail to recognize which faction they are in revelations. they’re not the true christian church, but rather the followers of the antichrist
It kind of astounds me that’s these people think an omnipotent and omniscient deity, capable of speaking the universe into existence, needs their help to bring about his plans for Armageddon. Like, God is gonna be foiled if America stops unconditionally supporting Israel or something.
evangelicals are so obssesed with the rapture yet they are not doing anything that warrant anything to be raptured, aka ascension. the end of time would be when “angels” start appearing over tokyo.
Not for the lulz, for the stacks. Gotta get them greens
just look at this map
if for example the us were to control greenland and canada (like krasnov is saber rattling over), we’d just see russia (on the south) and the us (on the south) along most of the arctic ocean (the disputed zone). ocean temperatures rise, the arctic thaws, and the us (a vassal state of russia under krasnov) and russia control all of the trade.
it is not a pretty picture
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