The federal lawsuit filed Monday asks a state court to prevent Vermont from enforcing the law, which was passed last year. Vermont became the first state in the country to enact the law after it suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather. The state is working to estimate the cost of climate change dating back to Jan. 1, 1995.
The lawsuit argues the U.S. Constitution precludes the act and that the state law is preempted by the federal Clean Air Act. It also argues that the law violates domestic and foreign commerce clauses by discriminating “against the important interest of other states by targeting large energy companies located outside of Vermont.”
Discriminating “against the important interest of other states by targeting large energy companies located outside of Vermont.”
Oh im sorry, did you want to be exempt from ruining the environment in Vermont because you were actually ruining the environment outside of Vermont, and if they happen to be connected somehow thats just a weird coincidence of them both being contained within the same planet’s atmosphere?
I don’t see how any legal progress can be made at this point, the supreme court is tainted. I expect Vermont to lose, with the rest of us.
Fine, then let’s make the oil companies responsible for ending and cleaning up all the worlds plastics.
That’s the cost of maintaining that oh-so-fragile fossil fuel infrastructure.
So much for state’s rights.