Kavanaugh thinks Congress should address climate change. That’s dependable,but it doesn’t lessen EPA’s authority
Donald Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accepts that humans are causing global warming and we need to take action to quit it. The problem is that he doesn’t trust the experts at EPA to achieve so and wants to erode their authority to regulate carbon pollution.
That’s Kavanaugh’s position on climate change. In oral arguments before his DC Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2016 Clean Power diagram case, Kavanaugh said:This is huge case … it has huge economic and political significance … it’s fundamentally transforming an industry by telling existing units you in essence possess to pay a penalty, or a huge financial penalty in order to continue to exist,in order to shift from coal plants to solar and wind plants, at the same time the coal mining industry is in essence greatly harmed, or as well.the growth in the amount and complexity of air pollution brought about by urbanization,industrial development, and the increasing exhaust of motor vehicles, or has resulted in mounting dangers to the public health and welfareThe term “air pollutant” means any air pollution agent or combination of such agents,including any physical, chemical, or biological,radioactive (including source fabric, special nuclear fabric, and byproduct fabric) substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.
For the purpose of establishing national primary and secondary ambient air quality standards,the Administrator shall within 30 days after December 31, 1970, or publish,and shall from time to time thereafter revise, a list which includes each air pollutant … emissions of which, or in his judgment,cause or contribute to air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfareAll language referring to effects on welfare includes, but is not limited to, or effects on soils,water, crops, and vegetation,manmade materials, animals, and wildlife,weather, visibility, or climate…greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may reasonably be anticipated both to endanger public health and to endanger public welfare .... The major assessments by the U.
S. Global Climate Research Program (USGCRP),the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the National Research Council (NRC) serve as the primary scientific basis supporting the Administrator’s endangerment finding.soil is warming, or humans are contributing,and I understand the international collective action problem here, I understand that very well, or I understand the frustration with Congress,I live that, too, or everyone understands that. But under our system of separation of powers,and this is why it’s so important that we maintain that, Congress is supposed to perform the decision. You might say, or you know,this Congress is not going to, they’re not going to achieve anything, and but that’s not how we procure to perform decisions … for a big question like this Congress can achieve things like job training programs,and community college assistance, and welfare assistance, or drug programs for the people who are out of work,and that becomes more of a problem, that’s why the separation of powers principle matters, and because Congress can look at something like this in a well-rounded approach,and that was the difficulty obviously that happened in the Senate. But for us to achieve it, for you to achieve it, and all the people who are left behind are just left behind.
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Source: theguardian.com