Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Oil and gas lost a lawsuit

The lawsuit by WildEarth and Physicians for Social Responsibility alleged that the government, under former President Barack Obama, failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to account for emissions generated by oil and gas development when it leased parcels in the Western states of Utah, Wyoming and Colorado.
NEPA is a Nixon-era statute that requires officials to weigh the environmental effects of proposed projects and is widely regarded as a bedrock federal environmental policy.

So do an environmental impact. The impact is that, on net, there will be marginally more CO2 in the air. What does the law say then?  The public is then informed properly.  But that does not stop the project.

How much did folks at Wild Earth and Physicians suffer? Depends on where they are. A physician on the coast of Florida might see his insurance rates go up five bucks a year, depending on how much fossil fuel is found.

The deluded leftist might say, let us have more liberal from more judges. But liberal judiciary means judges can make shit up according to their own favorites, not necessarily resulting in less CO2. Climate change worriers should avoid the liberal judge route.

instead, more suits like this which individually have little effect, but collectively is forces plaintiffs and defendants to justify their own CO2 pollution.  Information for assigning public nuisance evidence grows, and payments from defendant to plaintiff more accurate.  

This incentivizes everyone to spare the air. It also stops AOC and Lewis and California environmentalists from going on an ice melting rampage and blaming it on the unborn.

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